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Acadia National Park

Age of Exploration

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

There are many different ways to look at history ranging from a broad view of major events on a global scale to a small scale looking at specific local events. We start out with the big picture: how, when and why did the Europeans cross the Atlantic to a land that had been inhabited for thousands of years then look at an example of the cultural interface close to home.

Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument

Ice Age Investigation

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

An independent research activity where students will make observations and understand that many Ice Age animals are similar to animals that still live today.

Ages and Stages: The Life of a Hawaiian Volcano

• 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.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

See, Touch, and Hear: Preschool-age students

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

Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park has special things to see and touch. This field trip will enable preschool-age students to discover special plants and animals by using their senses.

Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument

Ice Age Mammals of Tule Springs Research Project

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students will identify key information about a past species. Students will describe modern relatives of a species found in the fossil record.

Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site

Guided Tour of the Vanderbilt Mansion

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

Ranger-guided tours of the Vanderbilt Mansion are offered throughout the school year. These field trips cover a variety of topics ranging from Vanderbilt family history, the Gilded Age, and art and architecture. The program can be adapted for all grades.

A Nation Repays Its Debt: The National Soldiers' Home and Cemetery in Dayton, Ohio (Teaching with Historic Places)

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

Learn about the Dayton National Cemetery and the soldiers buried there.

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

Me and My Park

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

A shorter ranger-conducted program for Pre-K. Designed for this age group's attention span. Includes science, a walk, and a fort program with a ranger and age appropriate activities.

Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument

Pleistocene Food Scene

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

Students will model the flow of energy through Pleistocene (Ice Age) food chains.

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.

Log Cabins in America: The Finnish Experience

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

Consider how simple, functional cabins, like those built by the Finns in Idaho, became symbols in American politics and folklore.

Layers of Time

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

Guiding Questions: What is stratigraphy? What is the law of superposition? How can archaeologists study stratigraphy to determine the age of archaeological objects? Students will: Explain what stratigraphy is. Describe the law of superposition. Understand how stratigraphy can be used to determine the age of archaeological objects.

Adeline Hornbek and the Homestead Act: A Colorado Success Story

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

In the center of this lush valley stands the Hornbek homestead complex, the home of a strong, determined woman who came to the area with her four children in the 1870s. Claiming land under the Homestead Act, Adeline Hornbek defied traditional gender roles to become the owner of a prosperous ranch.

Tree Rings

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

In this lesson students will learn about tree rings and how archaeologists use them to help date sites and artifacts. What are tree rings? How are tree rings used to determine the age of archaeological sites? Students will... ●Understand how trees grow and why growth rings are formed. ●Describe how climate and weather affects the growth of tree rings. ●Explain the age of a tree by its rings. ●Understand how ring patterns can be used to determine the age of archaeological sites.

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone Forever Institute

• Type: Field Schools & Institutes
• Grade Levels: Adult Education

Youth and college programs for middle-school through college-age groups are designed to engage the next generation of park stewards.

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha (Sediment Deposition and River Structures)

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

As rivers age and slow they deposit sediment and form sediment structures. How are sediments and sediment structures important to the river ecosystem?

The Freeman School: Building Prairie Communities

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

One community, one room. Discover the red-brick schoolhouse where a frontier town's children learned and its families gathered.

Weir Farm: Home of an American Impressionist

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

During a period when railroads were expanding, populations were increasing, and America’s agrarian system was being replaced by industry, Weir was one of a group of artists who found comfort and inspiration in the quiet everyday settings of New England, and, in many ways, defined our vision of the American landscape.

Fort Hancock: A Bastion of America's Eastern Seaboard

• 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.

Friendship Hill National Historic Site

Field Trip: Gallatin House Tour for School Groups

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

Every age students can participate in guided house tours.The tours cover Gallatin's accomplishments, the Gallatin family and the history of Friendship Hill.