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Guadalupe Mountains National Park

Geology Lesson 2. Global building blocks

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

Rocks and minerals are the building blocks of the Earth Crust. Learning how to identify the main types of rocks and their minerals will help students understand the geology of the Guadalupes and how a beautiful reef can transform into a mountain.

Salem Maritime National Historic Site

How did slavery connect Salem to a global economy?

• Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students examine two primary source documents connected to Salem merchant, Richard Derby, to explore connections between slavery in Salem, maritime trade, and a global economy.

Ozark National Scenic Riverways

Man, it's Hot!

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

What does 'global warming' mean, and we are really seeing climate change? In this activity, students will read a Global Warming Information sheet, and measure and graph the local temperature.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Why Water Matters

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

The Cuyahoga River gained national attention when TIME magazine published the infamous burning river photograph in 1969. Though the incident helped propel improved standards in water quality nationwide and ultimately helped inspire the Clean Water Act, we continue to struggle as a nation with water quality issues. Explore the topic of water quality with your students and help them discover that water quality issues are a global environmental problem.

Mesa Verde National Park

Understanding World Heritage

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

What is a world heritage site, why are they selected, and what can my community and I do to help preserve heritage sites in my community and globally?

National Park of American Samoa

Coral Reefs: Ecosystems Dissolving

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

Corals face in our modern world, a great threat due to a projected change in water chemistry in the ocean due to global warming. Just as carbon dioxide (the main greenhouse gas causing global warming) is increasing in the air, it also increases in seawater in its dissolved form. That makes seawater more acidic which, in turn, may slow the rate at which corals build their calcium carbonate skeletons.

Kenai Fjords National Park

Listening to the Ice

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

What are global warming and climate change? How are they caused, and how they are impacting our planet? A National Park Ranger will use Kenai Fjords National Park as a looking glass through which to observe our planet's health. The ranger will engage students with questioning, video content and other techniques in order to broaden their local and global understanding of climate change and leave them with a hopeful attitude about the future of our natural environment.

Glacier National Park

Predicting the Future

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

Students identify the process by which scientists in W-GIPP are determining/predicting the short and long range effects of global climate change in this two session lesson plan with research time in between.

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve

French and Indian War Activity

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

Representing the competing interests of the European nations on a global scale, set in the North American contenient. These battles ultimately shaped political and cultural divisions across the world, especially here in Louisiana that are still felt today!

Cowpens National Battlefield

The Cowpens Landscape Today: Native, Exotic, and Invasive Species

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

To demonstrate to students how exotic and invasive species are changing the Cowpens National Battlefield landscape in context of comparative changes,nationwide.

Back Stairs at Brucemore: Life as Servants in Early 20th-Century America

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

Understand the "servant" experience in early 20th-century America, as well as the pros and cons for women working in factories versus domestic service.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

The Ever-Changing Landscape: Grade 4

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

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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.

Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument

Fossil Teeth: Changing Climates and Evolutionary Responses Preserved in the Fossil Record (Lesson Plan by Geoscientist-in-the-Park Gina Roberti)

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

Students will look at changes in tooth size and shape (morphology) in the fossil record of herbivorous mammals in North America using data from a recent paleontological study. Students will infer factors which caused the observed evolutionary adaptions and link biological adaptation with global climate change and localized habitat change.

Yellowstone National Park

Wolverines and Climate Change

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

Students will demonstrate an understanding of specific adaptations that have prepared the pika and wolverine to survive in cool climates with harsh winter conditions. Students will additionally demonstrate an understanding of timescales and evolution, and how due to the increased speed of global temperature rise, climate change can have negative effects on these mammals despite their ability to adapt.

Shenandoah National Park

CCC: A New Deal to Rebuild a Nation

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

This interactive program tells the story of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the context of the social, political, and economic history of the 1920s and 1930s using real places, real people, and real stories in Shenandoah National Park.

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.

Rifles vs Muskets in the Revolutionary War

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

The two main shoulder-fired weapons of the revolution are the musket and rifle. They both have their pros and cons in battle. Students will analyze and compare the parabolic shape of each weapon. They will try and determine which weapon they would wield.

First State National Historical Park

Then and Now

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

While examining everyday objects used by people in the colonial period, students will be able to compare and contrast historical items with their modern counterparts within the context of The Old State House. This field trip takes place around The Dover Green.

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.