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Wind Cave National Park
Cardboard Caving
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
An exciting activity where students design, build, and explore a cardboard cavern.
Wind Cave National Park
Cave Cracks
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
A "cool" demonstration using a block of ice to simulate carbonic acid dissolving away a cave.
Mammoth Cave National Park
Clay Caves
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This lesson plan is from "Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3", which comprises ten lessons. This is lesson 8 of that set. Students can watch a cave form in their model landform.
Buffalo National River
Buffalo Caves and Karst
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson was designed to help students learn about karst landscapes and how erosion can form various land features (ex. caves).
Mammoth Cave National Park
Mammoth Cave Mobile
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This lesson plan is a part of "Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3", produced by the park's Environmental Education program. The GrK-3 Guide comprises ten lessons; this is lesson 2 of the set. Students will discover the components that make up a National Park
Timpanogos Cave National Monument
How to Make a Cave
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Just the power of weathering, erosion, and deposition is enough to make a cave! Students will explore a virtual scan of Timpanogos Cave to discover evidence of these concepts.
Lava Beds National Monument
Cave Life Traveling Trunk
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Explore Cave Life from your classroom!
Wind Cave National Park
What's That Green Stuff In The Cave?
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Photos of cave clean up and bleaching algae. A small demonstration to show what happens when we touch the cave.
Lava Beds National Monument
Lava Beds Geology in Mushpot Cave
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Ranger-led tour through cave.
Mammoth Cave National Park
Squirrels Need A Home - or - Bats Need A Cave
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This lesson plan is a part of "Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3", produced by the park's Environmental Education program. The GrK-3 Guide comprises ten lessons; this is lesson 6 of the set.
Timpanogos Cave National Monument
Deep Dweller Adaptations
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Where do you find food in a cave? How do you see without sunlight? Explore the adaptations of the wildlife that call caves home! Examine tactile examples of structures and functions that allow animals to survive in the extreme cave environment.
Wind Cave National Park
Surveying into the darkness
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
A mock cave survey where students use compasses to navigate along a specific path.
Mammoth Cave National Park
Webbing The Wonders
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This lesson plan is from "Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3", which comprises ten lessons. This is lesson 9 of that set. This web illustrates the way individual parts connect to form the world's longest cave.
Wind Cave National Park
Reef Builders and Limestone Formation
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Pictures of fossils from the rock layer that Wind Cave is located in. Also an attached activity where students review the information.
Timpanogos Cave National Monument
Ask a Ranger
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Ask a Ranger provides an opportunity for your classroom to interact with a Timpanogos Cave park ranger through a live and interactive lesson via the Internet. Students will prepare questions ahead of time and spend 30-60 minutes with the ranger discussing Timpanogos Cave geology, biology, conservation and human history, as well as what it's like to be a Park ranger and work for the National Park Service.
Mammoth Cave National Park
Tasty Trees
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This lesson plan is from "Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3", which comprises ten lessons. This is lesson 5 of that set.
Gateway Arch National Park
Rookie Rangers Summer Camp
- Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Rookie Rangers is an introduction to the adventures of the Outdoor Ranger Camps. Join us in Ranger adventures in hiking, water safety, fishing, archery, outdoor survival skills, and cave exploration.
Mammoth Cave National Park
Shapes Of The Season
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This lesson plan is from "Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3", which comprises ten lessons. This is lesson 4 of that set. Students collect and classify leaves. This art project then re-creates their favorite leaf shape in the colors of fall - ready to hang in the window as a sun-catcher.
Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve
Spring and Fall Field Trips
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Craters of the Moon National Monument is an exceptional area to study volcanic geology and the plants and animals native to Idaho's high desert. A field trip to Craters of the Moon allows students to engage first-hand with this volcanic landscape hiking up, around, and in volcanoes, walking through some of the youngest lava flows in the lower 48 states, and exploring one of our lava tube caves.
Mammoth Cave National Park
Park Puzzle
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This lesson plan is a part of Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3, produced by the park's Environmental Education program. The GrK-3 Guide comprises ten lessons; this is lesson 1 of the set. After being introduced to symbols and grouping, students will assemble two puzzles symbolic of our national parks - a ranger hat and the arrowhead patch.