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Gateway Arch National Park

Building the Dream: Constructing the Gateway Arch

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

Why is the Gateway Arch here? What does this landmark represent? Step back in time and learn how the tallest national monument in the United States was conceived, designed, and built.

Gateway Arch National Park

Building the Dream: Constructing the Gateway Arch (Distance Learning)

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

The process of creating the Gateway Arch took many, many years before its completion in 1966. Today, the National Park Service manages the Gateway Arch and educates people about the architectural significance of this structure. In this program, students will be taken back to the 1960s to learn about the process of conceiving, designing, and building the tallest national monument in the United States.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 2 Construction of the National Road

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

This unit covers the construction of the National Road, teaching the students how it was constructed and what types of work was needed to build the road. It includes background information for the teacher, a student reading and two student activities: Road Building Tools and Workers Building the National Road.

John Day Fossil Beds National Monument

Which Bone Goes Where

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

Construct a Mastodon skeleton by reviewing the illustration of a present-day elephant.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Revolutionary War Timeline Activity

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

Students will construct an accurate timeline of ten Revolutionary War battles.

Coquina: The Mighty Tiny Shell

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

In this lesson, students will learn about coquina and why the material was chosen to construct the forts.

Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

Web of Life

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

Students learn about the complexity of life and interrelationships between living things by constructing a Craters food web.

Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve

Kingsley Crispies!

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

The students will have an opportunity to learn about the historical building technique of making tabby by constructing crispy bars.

Independence National Historical Park

"Join, or Die" Political Cartoon Activity for Grades 4-6

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

In this activity, upper elementary students will analyze the "Join, or Die" political cartoon before constructing their own political cartoon.

Glacier National Park

Tree Parts

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

Class discussion of tree parts and their functions, then students construct small trees incorporating all the parts it will need to live.

Native American and European Encounters

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

Students will explore how the Timucuan, Guale, and Apalache contributed to the construction of the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States.

Back Stairs at Brucemore: Life as Servants in Early 20th-Century America

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

Understand the "servant" experience in early 20th-century America, as well as the pros and cons for women working in factories versus domestic service.

Glacier National Park

It Was a Very Good Year

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

Students learn to reconstruct history through the careful examination of tree-rings, and then construct a tree-ring representation of their own life history.

Glacier National Park

The Work of Water

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

Students construct a river model. Then use a watering can or hose to observe the role water has in causing weathering, erosion, deposition and sculpting the landscape.

Mount Rainier National Park

A String of Volcanoes

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

Students research information about Cascade volcanoes in Washington, Oregon, and California, then transfer the information onto the appropriate mobile piece before constructing the mobile "A String of Volcanoes".

Glacier National Park

Models of Succession

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

Students apply the process of succession to human activity and examine human habitat construction and its effects on the natural environment -- by building a model of a city and demonstrating their succession theories.

Fossil Butte National Monument

Geology, Relatives, and Time

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

Using a simple three or four generation family tree, students construct a relatives time tree that mimics the major divisions of the geologic time scale, Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic.

Fort Pulaski National Monument

Fort Pulaski Field Trip Guide

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This is a teacher-guided activity to be done on-site at the fort. Students will learn about the fort's construction and history. Plentiful photographs and a fort map will assist teachers in leading this tour through the fort.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

3D Modeling and Scale

• Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Construct a topographic model of Mount Rushmore. After the model is completed, students use concepts of scale and proportion (similarity concept in math) to calculate the scale of their model by comparing to real-life measurements.

Levitating Ping Pong Balls

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

How does an airplane get in the air? In this in-classroom lesson plan, students will explore one of forces of flight by constructing and using a simple device to demonstrate lift. Subject: Science. Grades: 3rd-5th.