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Niobrara National Scenic River

Ecology Unit

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Six terrestrial ecosystems combine with the riparian and aquatic ecosystems of the Niobrara to create a mix of plants and animals that exist together like nowhere else. This unit focuses on the ecology and biodiversity of the Niobrara River Valley. It contains a field experience component in addition to pre and post experience classroom work.

Kenai Fjords National Park

Temperate Rainforest Ecology

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

Students will review the concept of ecosystems and thoroughly examine the members of their local ecosystem. By concentrating on a specific relationship within the rainforest ecosystem, students will better understand the entire community.

Grand Canyon National Park

Self-guided Ecology Trip

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

Observe and experience the diversity of life at Grand Canyon. Get to know the adaptations of the resilient plant life on the rim and engage with the intricate relationships between living things in this community.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Black Hills Fire Ecology

• Type: Distance Learning ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

How does fire help our landscapes? In this lesson students will learn about prescribed burns and the helpful side of fire through an activity and lesson.

It Takes a Village

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

Students will understand that the Blackstone River Valley experienced a unique form of rural industrialization called the “Rhode Island System of Manufacture” after Samuel Slater built the first textile mill in Pawtucket in 1790. Early mill villages, as typified by Ashton Village between 1810 and 1870, included essential components which led to their success and proliferation in rural towns along the Blackstone River Valley.

Glacier National Park

Eco-enrichers

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

Students evaluate the importance of soil as well as plant and animal matter as contributors to soil through observing earthworms decompose composting materials.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Field Trip: The Villages

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

Learn about the life of the Hidatsa tribe that lived in the villages at Knife River Indian Villages NHS. The park ranger will guide students through interactive presentations in the museum, the earth lodge, and in the village (on the trail). Program also includes the 15 minute introductory park film.

Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area

Ecology Three-Touch Field Trip Model

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

Have you ever thought about how to power a person? We don't plug ourselves into an outlet on the wall, rather we get our energy from the food that we eat. This field trip focuses on the questions surrounding how energy is transferred throughout an ecosystem, how ecologists classify living things, and how living and non-living things interact. The field trip follows a three-touch model, where students complete activities in the classroom before and after a field trip.

Acadia National Park

Virtual: Grades K-8: Acadia’s Winter Ecology

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

Freeze, stay, or go away.  We will focus on the strategies of hibernation, tolerance, and migration that Acadia's animals use to survive Maine's winters.  Join us to explore the winter ecology of Acadia and learn about some of the amazing animals who adapt to this challenging season!  (Adapted to each grade level) (30-45 minutes)

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

National Park Labs: Studies of Wildland Fire Ecology

• Type: Science Labs
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

National Park Labs: Studies of Wildland Fire Ecology curriculum is progressive and builds on the knowledge of each prior lesson. Teacher materials include guidelines that provide the concept, objective, method, materials, duration, procedures for conducting lessons, student handouts, and student investigation worksheets.

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

Women and Children in the Mill Village

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

In this lesson, students will learn about the role women and children played in the community at Mill Villages. They will analyze a series of photographs using the "I see… I think… I feel… I wonder…" literacy strategy.

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

The Rhode Island System of Mill Villages

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

In this lesson, students will learn about how mill villages (in particular Ashton Mill) became a huge part of Rhode Island and showed the way people balanced work and community. Students will then create an overview map of their neighborhood community, complete with a key / legend.

Acadia National Park

Virtual: Grades 5-6: Pond Ecology, Citizen Scientists at Work!

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Learn how scientists track the health of Acadia by looking at who is living in a pond! Discover how you can help inventory the plants and animals that live near you! (45 minutes)

Gateway Arch National Park

ECO Rangers Summer Camp

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

Explore what lives in our lakes, ponds, streams, forests, and prairie lands. Do the same macros live in the creeks and ponds? What birds and animals live in the prairie lands vs woodlands? Fish the lakes and rivers, fine tune your archery marksmanship, net for macros in ponds, and search for the birds in our Missouri’s public lands.

Knife River: Early Village Life on the Plains

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

Have students describe the life of the Hidatsa and Mandan groups in the early 19th century and explain how the villagers shaped their environment and adapted to it; and discover American Indian groups who once lived in their region and compare their cultures to the Hidatsa and Mandan peoples.

Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument

Gran Quivira: A Blending of Cultures in a Pueblo Indian Village

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

The quiet remnants of the village of Las Humanas, now called Gran Quivira, only hint at the vibrant society that thrived here until the late 17th century. Today it is one of three sites that make up Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument.

Everglades National Park

"Alligator Hole Eco-Drama" Wildlife: 4-6th Grade

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

Our "Wildlife" unit is broken into 16 lesson plans, each taking from 20 minutes to several class periods to complete, and targeted mainly at 4th-6th grade students. A class needn't complete every lesson in the unit, though some lessons do refer to one another and are better done in sequence. However, each lesson comes with its own set of objectives and resources.

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

Girl Scouts Cadette Eco Trekker at Carl Sandburg Home NHS

• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Follow this Girl Scouts Cadette "Eco Trekker" badge lesson to plan a visit with your scouts at Carl Sandburg Home NHS. Girls will learn about invasive species, leave no trace and how to practice eco friendly trekking while enjoying the outdoors.

Tumacácori National Historical Park

River Ramble

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

This exploratory walk highlights the ecology of the Santa Cruz River Valley. This program will also touch upon the importance of river corridors as locations for traditional O’odham villages. Students will learn about the plants that were used for clothing, tools, and food. Learning will involve inquiry, sensory activities, and language arts.

Glacier National Park

Mature Forest Mime

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

Students learn forest terminology and ecological concepts through pantomiming and watching pantomiming.