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Olympic National Park

Weather Patterns of the Pacific Coast

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this activity, students will learn about weather patterns that help them better understand their water resources.

Olympic National Park

Habitat Requirements of Pacific Salmon

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this activity, students will learn about the specific habitat requirements for each Pacific salmon species, as well as, other anadromous fish of the Elwha River watershed. The ecological habitat of each salmon species includes their adult range in the ocean and the specific parts of the river, and its tributaries, that are critical spawning habitat.

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

Clatsop and Chinookan Culture of the Lower Columbia River Traveling Trunk

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

This trunk uses the journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to learn about the American Indian peoples--Clatsop and Chinookan, who lived at the mouth of the Columbia River when the expedition visited the area in 1805-06.

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

Clatsop & Chinookan Culture of the Lower Columbia River Traveling Trunk

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This trunk uses the journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to learn about the American Indian peoples--Clatsop and Chinookan, who lived at the mouth of the Columbia River when the expedition visited the area in 1805-06.

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site

North American Indian Migration into North Dakota

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

This lesson plan compares and contrasts the Great Plains and the Central Lowlands, identifying different tribes territories on maps, and explaining the ways the climate regions influenced Upper Missouri Plains Indian culture in North Dakota.

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site

North American Indian Migration into North Dakota

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

In this lesson, students will compare and contrast the Great Plains and the Central Lowlands. Then, students will identify different tribal territories on maps. By the end of the lesson, students will answer the following essential question: How did the different climate regions of North Dakota influence Indian cultures in those regions?

Cape Hatteras National Seashore

Pirates of North Carolina

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

This lesson is designed to introduce students to pirates who plagued the coast of North Carolina during the time of colonization, as well as to develop research skills in technology and write a research report. They will use a variety of strategies and writing process elements in the composing of their report. It will allow students to integrate research of social studies/history of the colonial era with technology, reading, and writing.

Acadia National Park

"Eastings and Northings" A Mapping Activity

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The lesson builds up slowly to read Map Grid References for later learning and practice orienteering. Orienteering is a navigation and sport activity that incorporates walking or jogging, determining directions, and map reading. The object of the activity is to use a map and compass to locate specific points in each area.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Documenting the Uncharted Northwest

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

Follow a trail of discovery to the Pacific Northwest. Although the corps' findings destroyed the dream of a water route to the Pacific Ocean, their accomplishments had far reaching effects in expanding human knowledge and opening a new course for American history.

Glacier National Park

Locating Glacier National Park

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

Students will label three maps to locate and identify landmarks near Glacier National Park in ever greater geographic areas: Glacier National Park and surroundings; the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada; and North America.

Fort Vancouver National Historic Site

Guided Tour of HBC Fort Vancouver

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The classic Fort Vancouver Field Trip experience! Classes, teamed up with a guide, participate in an interactive walking tour inside the reconstructed HBC Fort Vancouver.

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha: "Marine-Derived Nutrients from Salmon"

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Through this activity, students will learn how the carcasses of dead adult salmon support young salmon and how salmon are essential to the marine food web as well as the freshwater ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest.

Olympic National Park

North Olympic Watershed (N.O.W.) Science Program

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Working with the Feiro Marine Life Center and the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, the N.O.W. Science program is an inquiry based exploration of the Peabody Creek watershed.

Mount Rainier National Park

Flood, Fire, and Fury!

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This activity provides information about how some of the earliest human inhabitants in the Pacific Northwest witnessed geologic activity at Mount Rainier. Native Americans used oral, rather than written, communication to pass down historical information, heritage, and traditions.

Attu: North American Battleground of World War II

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

Learn about America's role in World War II and how US troops ousted the Japanese from Attu Island to gain control of the rest of the Aleutians.

Aleutian Islands World War II National Historic Area

Attu: The North American Battleground of World War II

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

In early June 1942, America had cause for jubilation and despair. The war news told of coordinated attacks by the Japanese on Midway and the Aleutian islands. At the Battle of Midway, American planes sunk four Japanese aircraft carriers and destroyed or hundreds of planes. But in the Aleutians, the Japanese bombing had been successful, and they occupied the islands of Attu, Agattu, and Kiska.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Explore With Your Senses - Grade K (Tennessee or North Carolina)

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

Complete field trip packet for a Great Smoky Mountains visit that includes: Explore With Your Senses Pre-Site Lesson, information and directions about the field trip and Wrap-up part 1 and 2 post site activities. One packet for TN educators and one packet for NC educators.

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha: "Salmon Farming - A Potential but Not Ideal Solution"

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

In this activity, students will learn about the economic and ecological values and costs of salmon farming, and draft a paper addressing the decline of the Pacific Salmon.

Remembering Pearl Harbor: The USS Arizona Memorial

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

Trace the course of the Japanese surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, and consider the significance of the sunken USS Arizona as a war memorial.

“Tracking” Down the Secret Code / North American Animal “Who am I”

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

This lesson will present the diversity of animals found along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, and will help students understand what we can learn about animals from the way they live and move.