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Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

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

Class of Discovery is the most in-depth ranger/teacher conducted program at the park. Students become the members of the expedition while they visit the park and participate in hands-on activities to learn what life was like during the time the Corps of Discovery stayed at Fort Clatsop.

Acadia National Park

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

Phenology is the study of when natural cues in the environment happen and how those cues can change over time. This unit ranges from seed dispersal, to plant identification, to invasive species.

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone Field Trip With Your Class
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Bring your students to Yellowstone for an educational experience of a lifetime. Park Rangers may be able to offer free ranger-led activities for organized groups such as K-12 school groups visiting the park on topics such as geology, geysers, wildlife, ecology, or history.

Minuteman Missile National Historic Site

Minuteman Missile Field Trip - Class Size of 18 or less
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Minuteman Missile National Historic Site welcomes school groups for ranger-guided tours. Depending on group size, students may tour the visitor center, Launch Control Facility Delta-01 and/or the Delta-09 missile silo.

Minuteman Missile National Historic Site

Minuteman Missile Field Trip - Class sizes of 19 students or more
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Minuteman Missile National Historic Site welcomes school groups for ranger-guided tours. Depending on group size, students may tour the visitor center and/or the Delta-09 missile silo.

Alaska Public Lands

Loon Kit
  • Type: Traveling Trunk
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This kit comes loaded with materials to connect your class with the wonders of the loon. With tapes, videos and even a loon costume your class is bound to enjoy this kit.

Fort Scott National Historic Site

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

During this in-class lesson, students will learn about the Trail of Tears.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

Family Ties (Pre Visit)
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students are encouraged to bring or upload one of their baby pictures and one old family photo to Google Classroom. Teacher will organize them in Google Slides and display the images to the class to identify "who is who' in their class.

Zion National Park

Zion Canyon Field Institute
  • Type: Field Schools & Institutes
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

A variety of educational opportunities await your class at Zion National Park!

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

PATERRE LESSON PLAN STEPS: PART 2
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

In this lesson students will be creating altars. This is part 2 of a lesson of two class periods of 1 hour each. Some outside class time will be needed by students for gathering items for use in altar creation. STEPS 1,2,3 must be done on a previous day.

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

Chemistry of the Blacksmith's Forge
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students research four questions and present their findings to each other. One class is needed for the research and one to two classes are needed for the presentations. Students can do additional research as homework, so allow a couple days between the initial research and presentations.

Glacier National Park

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

Class discussion of tree parts and their functions, then students construct small trees incorporating all the parts it will need to live.

Hamilton Grange National Memorial

Go exploring with Flat Ranger
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will be able to: research facts about National Parks present information to the class participate in an individual or group project

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument

Ranger-Guided Outdoor Fossil Hiking Programs
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Bring your class or group to see the Miocene fossil sites, American Indian heritage artifacts and more up close and interactively!

Denali National Park & Preserve

Denali Q&A
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Is there something about Denali that your class is curious about and that we don’t cover in our other distance learning programs? In this 30-minute program, a ranger presents a brief Denali overview and then spends 20 minutes answering student-generated questions. Your class will generate the questions ahead of time and send them to us at least a week before the program.

Create A Habitat
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will choose a habitat found in Haleakalā National Park and create a model of that habitat inside of a shoebox. The diorama projects will be shared with the class the following day.

Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site

Classroom Ranger Talk
  • Type: Guest Speakers
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

If your class wants to learn more about Ulysses S. Grant but you're not able to visit the park, have no fear. We'll come to you!

Fort Vancouver National Historic Site

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.

Arches National Park

Preparing for Winter
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

This in-class presentation explores strategies animals use to survive the winter. Students act out how bees work together to collect and store food for their hive.

Everglades National Park

"Create a Food Chain" Wildlife: 4-6th Grade
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Our "Wildlife" unit is broken into 15 lesson plans, each taking from 20 minutes to several class periods to complete, and targeted mainly at 4th-6th grade students. A class needn't complete every lesson in the unit, though some lessons do refer to one another and are better done in sequence. However, each lesson comes with its own set of objectives and resources.