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Company 818 and Segregation in the Civilian Conservation Corps
Visiting Glacier Bay
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Survivor Glacier Bay
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Washingtons in Chesapeake Bay History
Guided Tour of HBC Fort Vancouver
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The classic Fort Vancouver Field Trip experience! Classes, teamed up with a guide, participate in an interactive walking tour inside the reconstructed HBC Fort Vancouver.
Bears of Glacier Bay 2: The Scoop on Poop
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Let's Go Whale Watching in Glacier Bay!
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Glacier Bay is home to one of the world's most intriguing marine mammals - the endangered Humpback Whale. Come join a Glacier Bay Park Ranger on an interactive journey to learn more about this endangered species. Students will take a look at how Humpback Whales interact with their environment and what Park Researchers are doing to protect them.
Bears of Glacier Bay 3: Be Bear Aware
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will become “bear aware” by exploring ways to reduce human-bear interactions and applying them to different real-life scenarios. They will use critical thinking skills to make a list of considerations when camping, hiking, fishing, and at home. Students will conclude by creating a “Bear Aware Campaign” by making posters, creating podcasts or videos, or writing news stories.
I Notice I Wonder: Frenchman Bay View
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Share any or all of the ~1-minute non-narrated resource video clips of Acadia National Park with your students. Encourage them to generate "I Notice, I Notice, I'm Reminded of" statements to share. These statements help promote descriptive observations, thoughtful questions, & relatable connections. This fact sheet can be used to compliment a student-centered discussion! Topic: Frenchman Bay
Bears of Glacier Bay Lesson One: Name That Bear
"Mangrove Propagule Lab" Habitat Video: Florida Bay
Seals of Glacier Bay Lesson One: Flipper Feet
Humpback Whales of Glacier Bay Lesson 2: A Whale of a Tail
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this investigation, students study the identification and monitoring of humpback whales in Glacier Bay National Park. Students will identify individual humpback whales by their fluke markings. Then, students will use these skills in a simulated whale monitoring trip. Finally, students will identify the humpback whales seen and learn more about the life histories of individual whales.
Humpback Whales of Glacier Bay Lesson 3: You're the Superintendent
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this lesson, students will take on the role of park superintendent and create a plan to balance the needs of park visitors and humpback whales. The students will examine and discuss important legislation and how it affects the park. They will use facts about humpback whales and park visitation to create a press release about a new policy regarding humpbacks and humans.
Ask A Park Ranger - Living and Working in Glacier Bay, Alaska
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Park rangers have a wealth of knowledge about the National Park System, the park where they work, life as a ranger, and more. Tap into these stores of knowledge through an informal question and answer session with a Glacier Bay National Park ranger. Topics can cover the flora, fauna, glaciers, geology, and cultural history of Glacier Bay, as well as life in rural Alaska, careers in the National Park Service, and more.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson plan explores the Patent Office building, the site of President Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural ball.
"I Wish I Had Blubber" Habitat Video: Florida Bay
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The lesson could be used in U.S. history, social studies, and geography courses in units on nineteenth century and early twentieth century commerce or transportation, and to help students understand the role that maritime industries played in American history. The lesson could also be used to enhance studies related to the industrial revolution and women’s history.
Nature, Art and Conservation at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School, stated “The ravages of the axe are daily increasing desecration by what is called improvement; which as yet generally destroys Nature’s beauty without substituting that of Art.” This unit, Nature, Art and Conservation at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park, will explore this very issue through on-site visits, school based lessons and independent research. For this unit students will begin by reading Marsh’s Man and Nature...