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Gateway Arch National Park

MO Outdoor Rangers

• Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Splash your way through a week of water fun. Paddle your way through our great Missouri waterways, build a creek dam and explore nature’s water creatures, and catch a big one fishing the shores of Missouri’s parks and public lands.

Shenandoah National Park

5th Grade | Shenandoah National Park: Gem of the Blue Ridge

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Shenandoah National Park is an important natural and cultural resource in Virginia’s Blue Ridge geographic region. Students in the 9 Virginia counties that border this long and narrow national park will discover those resources with ranger-led in-class activities such as analyzing artifacts, investigating geologic samples, and writing creative responses while gaining classroom knowledge about Virginia’s history, geology, and geography.

Shenandoah National Park

The Spirit of the Mountain

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This interactive program connects the social, economic, geographic, and political history of the 1920s and 1930s with the establishment of Shenandoah National Park and the people whose lives were impacted.

Glacier National Park

Making the Mountains

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Glacier’s mountainous landscape tells the tale of the powerful geologic forces that have shaped the land over time. In this program, students will investigate the many geologic forces that have sculpted the mountains of Glacier by learning about the four main stages of the park’s geologic formations; silt, tilt, slide, and glide. Through hands-on activities and discussion, students will become immersed in the geologic story of Glacier National Park.

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

Mountain Building

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Plate tectonics allows for the development of mountains and valleys. Students will use a towel and index card "blocks" to show how mountains and valleys form using compressional and extensional forces.

Glacier National Park

Carving Mountains

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Through individual and group research, students create a clay model of a mountain range with glacial features labelled.

Grand Teton National Park

Mountain Weather

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Mountain weather is a force that climbers and outdoor enthusiasts need to understand and predict in order to plan safely and make good decisions in the backcountry. Use this lesson to help students understand weather patterns and processes and learn field prediction.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Mountain Life

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Shenandoah National Park

Life at Lewis Mountain

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This interactive program takes students through the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and the struggle to make all of Shenandoah National Park for all people.

Kings Mountain National Military Park

The Battle of Kings Mountain

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The Battle of Kings Mountain (October 7, 1780) was one of the most dramatic and hotly contested battles of the Revolutionary War. On an isolated ridge top in the Carolina backcountry, nearly 1000 American Patriots surrounded and overwhelmed an approximately equal number of American Loyalists.

Glacier National Park

Formation of Mountains and Faults

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Stations are set up around the classroom for teacher to demonstrate and then for students to rotate through in small groups. Video and photos are available of mountains in Glacier NP for students to look at from the Student Resource Guide CD or other source.

Gateway Arch National Park

Mountain Man Traveling Trunk

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this traveling trunk, students will learn about Mountain Man John Colter and his travels through what is today Yellowstone National Park in the early 1800s.

Kings Mountain National Military Park

Tactics in the Battle of Kings Mountain

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

*How did the Kings Mountain area terrain and settlements effect the tactics in the Battle of Kings Mountain? *How were the tactics used at the Battle of Kings Mountain similar and different than other battles in the American Revolution? *How were the tactics used by loyalists and patriots at the Battle of Kings Mountain similar and different?

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Document-Based Inquiry: Carve the Mountain and They Will Come

• Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This lesson plan will allow students to have an interactive experience with the history of Mount Rushmore without being physically present at the memorial. With historical images, newspaper articles, letters, telegrams and maps, students will dive into the history of Mount Rushmore, explore the motivating factors for creating a large-scale sculpture in the Black Hills, and consider how choices of South Dakotans in the past continue to impact the lives of South Dakotans today.

Acadia National Park

I Notice I Wonder: Beech Mountain

• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

I Notice, I Wonder is a way to explore the phenomenon of Acadia National Park. Beech mountain is one of the many summits of Acadia. Enjoy the video, explore the information provided, and discover together some of the natural wonders of the northeast.

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

The Battle and Geography of Kennesaw Mountain Virtual Program

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this virtual program, students will learn about the geography of Kennesaw Mountain and why it as been important for generations, especially during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. Students will also have an opportunity to make their own maps and discuss what they think is important about any given place.

Everglades National Park

"Everglades Mountains and Valleys" educational video series.

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

These episodes are exciting for the classroom. They will help teachers and students with pre-site work... we promise !

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

Traveling Trunks: Bringing Kennesaw Mountain to the Classroom

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Our traveling trunks are packed with items that facilitate a connection between students and the experiences of soldiers and civilians during the Civil War.

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

Civilian War Experience: The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

How did the experience of the Civil War differ from multiple perspectives, including that of women, children, and other civilians? Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park is a 2,923 acre site that saw some of the fiercest fighting of the Atlanta Campaign of the Civil War. While the site is best known for the battle that took place there, it is often forgotten that there was a thriving community surrounding the Mountain.

Curecanti National Recreation Area

Population of Great Blue Heron in Curecanti

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Using data from the park, students analyze the great blue heron population living in Curecanti National Recreation Area from 1989-2019. Students identify potential limiting factors that influenced the sudden decline in great blue heron population and identify which ones are density dependent and density independent factors. They also hypothesize what might happen to the population and learn about the value of citizen science.