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Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Geometry at Mount Rushmore
  • Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students find simple geometric shapes in objects around them. Students will practice identifying and correctly naming geometric shapes within Mount Rushmore. Students should already be familiar with geometric shapes and their names.

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Make Your Own Astrolabe
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students build their own astrolabe to examine stars and planets in the night sky and observe relative movement using basic observations and geometry.

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.

Cane River Creole National Historical Park

Shapes in the Landscape
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will review geometric and abstract shapes, and utilize them in creating a piece of artwork. From this exercise, students will be able to explore the idea of the natural world around them being comprised of shapes.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Math at Mount Rushmore for Grades 3, 4 and 5
  • Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students learn that more complex shapes can be partitioned into smaller, simpler, geometric shapes. Learners will be able to understand the concept of grids and symmetry, and be able to use them to make basic or more advanced area calculations.

Alaska Public Lands

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

This kit allows the student to see math within the Native arts of the Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska. Understand math with hands-on activities, using Tlingit baskets and weaving materials.

Saguaro National Park

How Much Water Can Sunny The Saguaro Drink?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

How does Sunny the Saguaro's age over the years compare to his height? The objective of this lesson is to help students learn about the relationship between the height of saguaros and their age while utilizing their geometric equations to calculate the volume of Sunny the Saguaro.

Acadia National Park

Concentric Sedimentary Circles
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will learn about sedimentary rock and the various sizes including boulder, cobble, pebble, sand, silt, and clay. They will create a temporary piece of art, based on concentric circles, using their various sizes of sedimentary rock found in nature using a geo sieve.

Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site

Incline 6: An Intepretive Hike
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

the students will hike a trail to the bottom of Incline 6 and hike back up by way of the incline itself. On the way down, students will learn about the natural resources used as raw materials in the building of the Allegheny Portage Railroad. On the way up, students will learn about the cultural resources related to the incline. They will also have the opportunity to determine the angle of the incline and the change in elevation.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Carving Tools at Mount Rushmore for Grades K, 1 and 2
  • Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will practice identifying and correctly naming geometric shapes within Mount Rushmore. Students will learn about the marks that carving tools make. Students will also learn about the processes of rock removal at Mount Rushmore and why the different tools were used at each point of the process.

Minuteman Missile National Historic Site

Go Underground with Cold War history
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Your class will join a ranger at Launch Control Center Delta-01, 31 feet underground, to explore the Minuteman II system's role as a nuclear deterrent during the Cold War and visit sites rarely seen by civilians while in use, but that nevertheless loomed large on the geo-political landscape.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Math at Mount Rushmore for Grades 6, 7 and 8
  • Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students recognize shapes in Mount Rushmore, whether it’s 2D shapes through a series of 2D drawings, or 3D shapes through measurable PDF’s of the 3D model of Mount Rushmore. Learners use geometric formulas to calculate the volumes of these shapes based on scaled representations and effectively use understanding of scale to translate these calculations to life-size.

Hopewell Culture National Historical Park

Travel or Trade?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

People of the Hopewell culture are known for building gigantic geometric earthworks. They also created spiritually charged artwork out of beautiful exotic materials sourced from all over the North American continent. How did these materials get to South-Central Ohio? Gather your students and plenty of supplies into your canoe and let’s explore the fascinating answer!