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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Bear Essentials
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Our Bear Essentials program will introduce your students to the essentials bears need to survive and inspire them to think like scientists.
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Essex County Educator Webinar (Outdated)
- Type: Teacher Workshops & Other Programs
- Grade Levels: Adult Education
Join us on Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 7:00pm to 8:30pm (EST) for a virtual webinar highlighting new digital resources for educators on the history of slavery and freedom in Salem, Massachusetts.
Mesa Verde National Park
Understanding World Heritage
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
What is a world heritage site, why are they selected, and what can my community and I do to help preserve heritage sites in my community and globally?
Saguaro National Park
Understanding Percent Using Buffelgrass
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The objective of this lesson is to help students learn and understand percentages while also learning about the significance of buffelgrass, an invasive plant in the Sonoran Desert.
Zion National Park
Genetics and Adaptations: Understanding Inherited Traits and Survival
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The students will focus on and discover how different plants living in Zion National Park use their inheritable traits to adapt to their environment. Students will model plant genetics using different colored beans to make combinations of alleles, representing the hybridization of prickly pear cacti in Zion National Park.
Glacier National Park
Forest Communities
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students collect conifer tree needles and cones (not in the national park but from locations where it is permissible) and make displays from them. They identify trees and take note of where their samples were collected.
Tumacácori National Historical Park
The Blame Game - Pima (O'odham) Rebellion of 1751
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
“What caused the Upper Pima (O’odham) Rebellion?” Students will encounter various answers to the essential question through the close reading and study of several primary and secondary sources. Students will have the opportunity to understand the impact of the Spanish mission system on native peoples and to investigate some of the causes of the rebellion.
Valley Forge National Historical Park
The March In
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this lesson, students will examine secondary source documents and utilize map skills to understand the reasons why Valley Forge was chosen as the site for the Continental Army's winter encampment in 1777. Students will then be able to answer the following essential question: Why did General George Washington choose Valley Forge as the site for the Army’s winter encampment?
Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve
Basics of Habitat
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Use America's largest national park as a pathway to discovery! In this lesson, students think about essential survival needs
- 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.
President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site
Back to the Future: Research Project
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will research President Clinton and the Birthplace Home National Historic Site website and use a four square organizer to answer the Essential question.
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
Battling Disease
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this lesson, students will answer the following essential questions: How has the prevention and battling of health threats changed between the US-Mexican War and today?
Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site
Cowboy Gear: 3rd - 4th Grade
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Cowboys on the open range needed tools to do the job, like most workers. Explore the essential tools and gear needed for a cowboy, and the history behind them.
Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site
Waste Not: 4th - 5th Grade
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Bison were an essential animal for many plains tribes. This lesson explores the many uses tribal people had for the bison as well as economic and cultural significance.
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.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this lesson, students will answer the following essential question: What combination of factors, both natural and manmade, is necessary for healthy river restoration and how does this enhance the sustainability of natural and human communities?
Acadia National Park
Carriage Road Explorers Post Activities
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Content is a post assessment, wrap up activity for the students who attend the Carriage Road Explorers in Acadia National Park. Students will describe the characters who were essential for the creation of the carriage roads.
Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park
Frontier Life in the Texas Hill Country
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
What was it like to live in the Texas frontier in the 1860s? Learn about the settlement history of the Texas Hill Country and how it impacted different communities and the local natural environment.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Cultural Contact Lesson Plan
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson examines the origin of trade goods during the fur trade era and how commerce in early Colorado history served to increase settlement and westward expansion. It demonstrates how international markets have been and continue to be essential to the success of a nation’s economy.
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
What can we learn about the lives of enslaved people from primary sources?
- Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students examine primary and secondary sources, including two short films, to explore the life of an enslaved woman in Salem. The essential question asks students to consider what we can learn about the history of slavery from primary sources.