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Florida Animal Adaptations

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

Compare and contrast adaptations displayed by animals that enable them to survive in Florida's natural habitats.

Everglades National Park

"Mangrove Propagule Lab" Habitat Video: Florida Bay

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

The students will be able to compare results of experiments and other types of investigations, experiment with properties of matter, and discuss plant structure and function.

Everglades National Park

"I Wish I Had Blubber" Habitat Video: Florida Bay

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

Students will be able to explain why manatees can not survive in cold water. Students will be able to explain the dangers of boat propellers to the Florida Bay sea grass habitat, and to the manatees. Students will describe four characteristics of the manatee.

DBQ Essay: Effects of Spanish Rule

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

Students will interpret the meaning of documents and write an essay that demonstrates their understanding of the effects of Spanish colonial rule in Florida.

Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve

Kingsley Timeline

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

This timeline activity guides students through the story of the Kingsley family while highlighting key moments in Florida's history.

Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve

Slaves as Property

• Type: Primary Sources
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will read a "Reward Flyer" advertising the escape of a Florida slave. This will spark learning about slavery, property, and the Underground Railroad.

Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve

Slavery Systems in America, a classroom lesson

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

Students will use Kingsley Plantation as a setting to explore how slave systems in Florida varied under the Spanish, British, and American rule.

Everglades National Park

"Rainy Season in Three Cups" Water: 4-6 Grade

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

Students will learn where the water that sustains the Everglades originates, and how the flow of water through the K-O-E watershed sustains Florida Bay as well.

Pre and Post Field Trip Activities

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

Students will be able to understand the role of Fort Matanzas in relation to Spanish colonial history and how Fort Matanzas played an integral role in protecting the city of St. Augustine, FL.

Discover the Jackie Robinson Ballpark: A Lightning Lesson from Teaching with Historic Places

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

How can sports and popular culture change public opinion? What historic place might you study to answer this question? Jackie Robinson and his Florida namesake hold clues.

Everglades National Park

"Going, Going, Gone" Don't Let It Loose: 5-8th Grade

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

The students will be able to define the terms native, alien, endangered and extinct; explain the impact of exotic vegetation to natural communities; name at least three native and three exotic species found in South Florida.

Life of a Spanish Soldier

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

Students will learn what life was like in Colonial Florida as a Spanish Soldier from the 1720's -1760's. Students will practice using historical documents and video interpretation to summarize and synthesize information.

Everglades National Park

Sea Level Rise: Climate Change

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

1. Show what happens to sea level when ice sheets melt. 2. Show what happens to sea level when icebergs melt. 3. Connect sea level changes in Miami to icesheets melting. 4. Explain that sea level changes are caused by melting/freezing of ice sheets in Antarctica/Greenland. 5. Show that communities in Florida will be affected by sea level rise. 6. Realize that South Florida has been under water many times in the geologic past. 7. Discuss ways communities can mitigate/adapt to sea level rise.

Everglades National Park

"Incredible Shrinking Habitat" Environment: 4-6 Grade

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

The Florida panther has succumbed to numerous pressures, including loss of habitat, to become a highly endangered species. Access into wilderness areas by road building for drainage canals, and increased development for ranching, lumber, agriculture, mining, oil and gas drilling, housing and recreation all impact the panther habitat. Students will become panthers, deer and vehicles in an active tag-like game to learn about the impact of development.

Fort Pickens and the Outbreak of the Civil War

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

The peaceful surroundings--white sugar-sand beaches, clumps of golden sea oats, and the soothing sounds of coastal waves pounding on the shores of a long barrier island--belie the serious purpose of Fort Pickens, located on Santa Rosa Island in Florida. One of the largest brick forts built in the United States, Fort Pickens provided the setting for a serious effort by a small group of men to avert or at least postpone the outbreak of the Civil War.

Discover the Jackie Robinson Ballpark: A Lightning Lesson from Teaching with Historic Places

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

How can sports and popular culture influence public opinion? Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball to changes hearts, minds, and American law.

Everglades National Park

"Everglades Baseball" National Parks: 4-6 Grade

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

Our "National Parks" unit of the activity guide contains various lesson plans, each taking on average 45 minutes to an hour to complete, and targeted mainly at 4th-6th grade students. Most of these lessons focus on learning the location of, and characteristic plant and animal life of each national park unit in South Florida. A class doesn't need to complete every lesson in the unit, though some lessons do refer to one another and are better done in sequence.

Everglades National Park

"Leaf Hunt" Plant Activities: 4-6 Grade

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

There is a huge diversity of leaf structures (adapted to getting sunlight, nutrients, and water in their specific habitat) in South Florida. Both tropical and temperate species are able to survive here because of their special adaptations. Students can become more familiar with the vegetation around them by simply taking time to study it up close. This activity is designed to give students a chance to notice and appreciate the importance of diversity in leaf/plant adaptations.

Who are the Gullah Geechee?

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

The Gullah Geechee are African Americans with ancestral roots in the Southeastern U.S., from southeastern North Carolina all the way down to northeastern Florida. Their ancestors, taken from West and Central Africa between the early 1600s and the 1850s, were forced into labor due to their skills and strength. To preserve their heritage, they created the Gullah Geechee language by blending native African languages with English.

Ybor City: Cigar Capital of the World

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

This lesson provides a case study of an immigrant community of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and offers a contrast to the typical textbook coverage that emphasizes immigration from eastern and southern Europe to the big cities of the north.