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Buffalo National River

Save the Bats
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Delve into the world of bats with the following lesson plan and activity.

Buffalo National River

Fish Out of Water
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

What comprises a fish? How can one fish affect an ecosystem? Learn more through this lesson and the activities that follow.

Buffalo National River

The Art of Field Guiding
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This lesson plan was made to help students understand the importance of field guides and how to create their own.

Glacier National Park

Senses Songs
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will sign songs to help them understand that humans have 5 senses which help them learn about the world around them.

Buffalo National River

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

This lesson plan delves into the curious lives of frogs at Buffalo National River.

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

National Park Legacy - Wildlife in Cities Grades K - 2
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Coexisting with wildlife requires that actions be taken to reduce conflicts and minimize impacts from human activity so that a healthy appreciation of wildlife can be fostered. Specifically addressed in this lesson are efforts SMMNRA is making to encourage residents to clean up unintentional food resources such as pet food, and secure trash cans so that unwanted wildlife do not seek food on personal property.

Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument

What's for Dinner?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will observe the shape of living and extinct animals’ teeth to determine whether they are carnivores or herbivores.

Glacier National Park

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

Students role play a day in the life of a pet animal and then sort pictures of a variety of animals into “wild” or “domestic” categories with the option of making collages of each category. They will think about how “wild” animals are different from domestic animals and why wild animals need “wild” places to live.

Assateague Island National Seashore

Kindergarten| Feathers & Hair: What Animals Wear!
  • Type: Guest Speakers
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Whether it is feathers, fur, skin, or hair, young learners will explore what animals wear with a story that comes to life with props and pantomime. Program Length: 45 minutes NGSS: 1-LS1-1

Buffalo National River

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

This lesson was designed to help students understand the food chain and food webs an ecosystem holds and how one part of the chain affects everything surrounding it and more.

Haleakalā National Park

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

At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to demonstrate an understanding that a habitat is a home, and native habitats are the best and only home for native species.

Yellowstone National Park

To Eat or Be Eaten
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In “To Eat or Be Eaten,” students demonstrate energy transfer and connections between plants and animals.

Haleakalā National Park

Food, Water, Shelter, Space
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to: 1. Demonstrate an understanding that a habitat is a home, and native habitats are the best and only home for native species. 2. Recognize that some plants and animals have specific needs and live in special homes that give them what they need.

Glacier National Park

Who's Wild?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students learn the differences between wildlife and domesticated animals.

Haleakalā National Park

Is This My Home?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to: 1. Demonstrate an understanding that a habitat is a home, and native habitats are the best and only home for native species. 2. Name three species that are only found within Haleakalā National Park. 3. Recognize that some plants and animals have specific needs and live in special homes that give them what they need.

Glacier National Park

Bear Noses
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Just like a bear, students will use their sense of smell to locate an object in the room.

Glacier National Park

The Web of Life
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will be able to illustrate the interrelationships of W-GIPP animals and plants through the weaving of a simple web.

Helping Each Other
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

The survival of different species depends on two species helping each other. The complex relationships within one habitat can be hurt when one of the species is threatened or one of the species becomes extinct.

John Day Fossil Beds National Monument

Physical or Behavioral Adaptations
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Learn what adaptations are and the differences between physical and behavioral adaptations.

John Day Fossil Beds National Monument

Which Bone Goes Where
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Construct a Mastodon skeleton by reviewing the illustration of a present-day elephant.