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Cape Lookout National Seashore
Horse Genetics and Evolution: Shackleford Horses Unit
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson plan will cover 6th-8th grade genetics and evolution relating everything back to the horses on Shackleford Banks, NC. The students will be able to construct arguments based on evidence that organisms and landforms change over time and recognize patterns of heredity from Punnett Squares and Pedigree Analysis.
Olympic National Park
Freeing the Elwha (Salmonid Natural History)
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
How does biological evolution account for the diversity and distribution of salmonid species?
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
LESSON 3 - CREOLIZATION: THE CREATION OF CULTURE
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The lesson examines the process of cultural mixing and evolution through the lens of creolization.
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Geology Lesson 3. Where did the oceans go?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The learner will: • Understand the external forces that aid landscape evolution. • Apply this understanding to the Guadalupe Mountains, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, the Delaware basin area, or your local geography.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will learn about the evolution of a volcanic island from origin to erosion. They will understand that Hawaiian volcanoes have gradually progressed through different stages as they are formed, emerge, and erode back into the sea from which they came.
Yellowstone National Park
Wolverines and Climate Change
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will demonstrate an understanding of specific adaptations that have prepared the pika and wolverine to survive in cool climates with harsh winter conditions. Students will additionally demonstrate an understanding of timescales and evolution, and how due to the increased speed of global temperature rise, climate change can have negative effects on these mammals despite their ability to adapt.
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
No Dinosaurs Here, Only Mammals!
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Join an Education Ranger as they introduce students to several species of mammals that once roamed the Nebraska plains during the Miocene epoch some 26-15 Million Years ago. Learn about how climate change, geology and other environmental factors contributed to the evolution and extinction of these species. And some other fun facts as well!
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Secrets of The 'Apapane - Kindergarten
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Young students learn about the 'apapane and it's role in the native Hawaiian forest through utilizing their senses and observational skills.
Glacier National Park
Dressing for Winter
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
A model (either the teacher or a volunteer) demonstrates dressing in three layers and describes the purpose behind each layer and type of material.
Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve
Life Time Line
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to visualize the times of important evolutionary events in relation to geological and cultural history. Students will be able to name some of the animals that became extinct at Craters of the Moon. Students will use their imaginations to forecast future events and designate them on a timeline.
Haleakalā National Park
Maui's Hawaiian Honeycreepers and Adaptive Radiation
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
A green and yellow parrot-billed bird called the Kiwikiu rests on a branch in an unknown location on Maui.
Lake Clark National Park & Preserve
Brown Bear Survival Game
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this lesson, students play a Brown Bear Survival board game, in which they will learn about resource availability and the movement of brown bears. This game and all of the bears in the game are based on actual research conducted by park biologists in Lake Clark National Park.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This is a GM Delco Transistorized "Hybrid" (vacuum tubes and transistors) radio model 3725156, which was first offered as an option on the 1956 Chevrolet Corvette car models. Photo by Historianbuff, Wikimedia.
Lake Clark National Park & Preserve
Can You Identify Me?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will have the opportunity to study and identify fish as really wildlife biologists. They will watch clips taken of salmon swimming up stream through the Silver Salmon Weir in Lake Clark National Park. Their job will be to use their identification cards and see how many salmon they can identify as they swim past. Be careful -- some salmon look awfully similar!
Lowell National Historical Park
Farm to Factory Production: Making a Grilled Cheese Sandwich
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will compare making a sandwich on a farm before the Industrial Revolution and today to understand the changes that have occurred over the last 200 years. Students should understand that 200 years ago on New England farms people had to make what they needed by hand. Many products readily available to us today were not available back then.
Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument
Fossil Teeth: Changing Climates and Evolutionary Responses Preserved in the Fossil Record (Lesson Plan by Geoscientist-in-the-Park Gina Roberti)
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will look at changes in tooth size and shape (morphology) in the fossil record of herbivorous mammals in North America using data from a recent paleontological study. Students will infer factors which caused the observed evolutionary adaptions and link biological adaptation with global climate change and localized habitat change.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Examine how changing military technology and U.S. budget debates influenced the development of Fort Hancock and the U.S. coastal defense system.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Now one of the most beautiful spots in Puerto Rico, the battlements illustrate the remarkable work of Spanish military engineers and recall more than 400 years of history in the Americas.