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Cane River Creole National Historical Park

A Fish's Journey

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

Learn about the life cycle of fish! In this choose-your-own adventure inspired activity, players will travel through their life cycle as a Bluegill living in Cane River Lake. Try to survive to adulthood and spawn the next generation of Bluegills – but watch out for predators and other challenges along the way.

Buffalo National River

Fish Out of Water

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

What comprises a fish? How can one fish affect an ecosystem? Learn more through this lesson and the activities that follow.

Acadia National Park

The Great Fish Migration (7th Grade)

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

The Great Fish Migration is a 4 hour program that partners with the MDI Historical Society and the Somes Meynell Wildlife Refuge to bring a historic and scientific picture of the fishing history of Somesville and the revitalization of the local Alewife population.

Everglades National Park

"Fish Relay" Wildlife: 4-6th Grade

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

Our "Wildlife" unit is broken into 15 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

Everglades National Park

"Who's Killing Our Fish?" Water: 4-6 Grade

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

The student will be able to: a) locate the Dry Tortugas, b) analyze the effects of overharvesting on various fish populations, and c) discuss reasons that make wildlife restrictions important to the survival of populations.

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha: "Hatcheries - Saviors or Scourge for Wild Salmon?"

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

This activity helps students understand the history and roles that hatcheries serve in sustaining commercial fisheries, native fish populations, and saving endangered fish stocks. They will also do their own research on the pros and cons of hatcheries.

Rock Creek Park

Herring Highway

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

Visit Rock Creek Park to explore a new fish passage for River Herring.

Assateague Island National Seashore

Aquarium Talk

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Have a firsthand introduction to the creatures that live in the waters surrounding Assateague Island. Students will learn about this fish-eat-fish world and the fascinating adaptations some creatures have evolved to keep from being someone else's lunch!

Gateway Arch National Park

Rookie Rangers Summer Camp

• Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Rookie Rangers is an introduction to the adventures of the Outdoor Ranger Camps. Join us in Ranger adventures in hiking, water safety, fishing, archery, outdoor survival skills, and cave exploration.

Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park

Kaloko Loko I'a (Fishpond) Curriculum

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

Kaloko-Honokōhau is a wahi kūpuna (ancestral place) that is deeply loved and cherished by the kamaʻāina (natives) of Kona. Remembered today for the fishing village that existed along the coast, these reminders of the ancestors remain. Remnants of the fishing village includes kahua (ancient house site platforms), heiau (religious sites), loko iʻa (fishponds), holua (toboggan slide), kiʻi pōhaku (petroglyphs), papamū (kokane game boards), ahu (altar), and ala hele(trails).

Johnstown Flood National Memorial

An Interview with Colonel Elias J. Unger

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

During this interactive play, students will meet Colonel Elais J. Unger, president of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club. A ranger will portray Unger and tell the story of the Great Johnstown Flood of 1889.

Olympic National Park

Overfishing and Fisheries Collapses

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

This activity focuses on the recent collapse of marine fisheries across the world due to increased commercial fishing pressures, a result of increased technology coupled with the changing climate of marine environments related to greenhouse gas pollution.

Fossil Butte National Monument

Making a Fossil Game

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will play a game where a volunteer plays a fish that sinks to the bottom of the lake after death. The remaining students will slowly cover the volunteer with their jackets, showing how over time organisms are covered with sediment and slowly become a fossil.

Gateway Arch National Park

MO Outdoor Rangers

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

Splash your way through a week of water fun. Paddle your way through our great Missouri waterways, build a creek dam and explore nature’s water creatures, and catch a big one fishing the shores of Missouri’s parks and public lands.

Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve

Survivor Glacier Bay

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

Glacier Bay is a vast wilderness that is home to many animals, including birds, mammals, fish and, historically, people. Through this distance learning program, students will learn that each animal has special adaptations to survive in the cold waters and snowy mountains of Glacier Bay.

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha: "Getting to Know Salmonids in the Elwha River" Research Activity

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

Students will be introduced to the wild salmonid species of the Elwha River. After watching a power point presentation on the anadromous life styles of pacific salmonids, students will work in groups to research. Then students will compose a presentation on the lifestyle of a specific species of anadromous fish found in the Elwha River.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Subsistence: Men’s Contributions

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

Students will learn how men contributed to the dietary needs of the people living at Knife River Indian Villages through hunting, trapping, fishing and foraging through reading and discussion, graphic organization utilizing the KWL (Know/Want to Know/Learned model and through dramatization in song or skit writing.

Olympic National Park

Habitat Requirements of Pacific Salmon

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

In this activity, students will learn about the specific habitat requirements for each Pacific salmon species, as well as, other anadromous fish of the Elwha River watershed. The ecological habitat of each salmon species includes their adult range in the ocean and the specific parts of the river, and its tributaries, that are critical spawning habitat.

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.

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!