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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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

Mount Rainier National Park

Fire and Ice

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

Students use ice cream glaciers and hot wax lava flows to simulate the interactions of glaciers and lava flows. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to answer the question: How do a volcano and its glaciers work together, specifically at Mount Rainier?

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.

Glacier National Park

Meeting the Fire Triangle

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

In this activity, students make a physical model of the Fire Triangle as a geometric shape. They manipulate the model and discuss the components of the Fire Triangle in the context of things they are already familiar with - candle flames, campfires, and engines.

Alaska Public Lands

Fire in Alaska Kit

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

This educational kit provides teachers and students with an excellent opportunity to learn about the importance and problems of fires. they will be able to identify hazard signs and natural change while taking part in group activities.

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.

Natchez Trace Parkway

The Spark of Bravery, A Fire of Discovery

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

One of the bravest men in American history, join us for 45-minutes as we take a look at the incredible life of Meriwether Lewis from childhood through the Corps of Discovery, to his final days along Natchez Trace. *This program briefly discusses his suicide, with minimal detail, and the National Suicide Prevention hotline contact information

Fire Island National Seashore

Fire Island Treasure Chest

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

Packed with shells, sand, samples, and field guides, our treasure chest is an easy way to prepare for your Fire Island field trip or bring the Seashore to your classroom.

Hawaiian Islands: Born of Fire

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

This lesson introduces students to hot spot theory and how it relates to plate tectonics. It also compares and contrasts composite and shield volcanoes and introduces students to the theory behind the formation of the Hawaiian Islands. Students will learn how to classify Hawaiian volcanoes according to their activity and location as active, dormant and extinct.

Glacier National Park

Meeting the Fire Triangle 2

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

This activity is a brief guided discussion that describes combustion and wildland fire.