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Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park

LBJ's Environmental Legacy

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

Begin to build in LBJ's environmental legacy into your curriculum by using resources provided

Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park

LBJ and the Environment of the 1960s

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

Learn about the environmental issues of the 1960s and how President Lyndon B. Johnson took action.

Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park

LBJ and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s

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

Learn about President Johnson's legislation actions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

Adapting to an Extreme Environment

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

Students match Craters plant adaptations to different habitat types and use their imaginations to create a species well adapted to a habitat of their design.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

Aligned Legacies

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

Students will analyze 10 or more images of American Presidents and organize them in chronological order along a timeline from left to right.

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park

Lincoln’s Legacy

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

What factors have led to Abraham Lincoln being a memorialized president? Meets Kentucky 5th grade social studies standards. This lesson was created by Kentucky teachers as a part of the History and Science Explore Project.

Homestead National Historical Park

The Legacy of the Homestead Act

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In "The Legacy of the Homestead Act," students will identify aspects of text that reveal an author's point of view and produce their own presidential speech about the Homestead Act.

Everglades National Park

"Create a Community" Environment: 4-6th Grade

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

Communities are made of different plants and animals that all play an important role.

Cultural Legacy of Spanish Colonialism

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

Are you teaching your students to identify cultural contributions and perspectives? Are you looking for an opportunity to share how the age of exploration and European colonialism influenced early America? Invite Park Rangers from Castillo de San Marcos and Fort Matanzas into your classroom through live video conferencing!

National Park Legacy - Voyagers

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

Teachers will need to get enough copies of brochures for one or more national park units (you can do a google search for "park brochure" + the national park unit's name to get online brochures that are printable) for this activity. Students will analyze information on the brochure and complete the attached worksheet. Teachers can use this activity to prepare students for an upcoming trip to their nearest national park unit.

Everglades National Park

"What's So Special?" Environment: 4-6 Grade

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

Students will draw a favorite plant, animal, or activity common to the Everglades environment and explain, in writing, the reason they chose it. This will help students recognize and identify one valuable aspect of a national park’s environment, and draw conclusions as to why they value that aspect of the environment.

Everglades National Park

"Incredible Shrinking Habitat" Environment: 4-6 Grade

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

The Florida panther has succumbed to numerous pressures, including loss of habitat, to become a highly endangered species. Access into wilderness areas by road building for drainage canals, and increased development for ranching, lumber, agriculture, mining, oil and gas drilling, housing and recreation all impact the panther habitat. Students will become panthers, deer and vehicles in an active tag-like game to learn about the impact of development.

Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical Park

Building Stewardship Through Science - Mercury in Our Environment

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

By working with various partners, including Dartmouth College's Toxic Metals Research Program, students determine mercury levels in macroinvertebrates taken from the Pogue (pond) in Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP. Students learn how mercury moves through air, water, and through the food chain. By reading Marsh, learning about Billings and Rockefeller, students will cultivate a sense of stewardship and reflect on their own choices.

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Environmental Prairie Science

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

Students conduct a miniature scientific experiment and learn about prairie ecosystems through games and activities.

National Park of American Samoa

Enviro Musical Chairs

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

There's a certain mystique about the word “biodiversity” that seems to be associated with images of steamy jungles or wondrous new medicines, but the word more specifically refers to the number of species or 'species richness' of an area. One reason why tropical areas are so fascinating is that they contain the highest numbers of plant and animal species found anywhere on earth.American Samoa sits squarely in the tropics, so we should have a high biological diversity here, but we do and we don't

Everglades National Park

"Where Have You Gone?" Environment: 4-6 Grade

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

Students will be able to: a) discuss some of the problems that wild animals and plants face from humans, b) list examples of how personal feelings and beliefs can affect situations involving wild organisms, and c) make decisions about a value-related plant/animal issue.

Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical Park

Caring For Our Forests - A Legacy of Stewardship

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This is a Global Studies and English unit that is ideally designed as part of a forest-focused, across the curriculum unit, which would complement work being done in the subject specific areas of math, science, and physical education of a typical middle school in Vermont. This unit could also stand on its own in terms of a place-based unit using forests as its focal point

Women's Rights National Historical Park

The Works of Faith: The Hunt Family Legacy

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

When Richard Hunt first came to Waterloo, NY in 1821, he found a boom town. He and his second wife, Jane, were closely associated with local Quaker families, and intimately engaged in local business ventures. Through their faith and their industry they effected change in the community, and beyond. Explore their works--from the Underground Railroad to their woolen mill, to the tea party that set off a rebellion.

Klondike Gold Rush - Seattle Unit National Historical Park

Klondike's Environmental Impact on People

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

What situations were travelers to the Klondike Gold Rush prepared to handle? Are there any bugs or animals that could have caused them harm? Do you think the small chance of finding gold successfully outweighed the risks and costs of sailing and hiking into the Yukon?

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

The Life and Legacy of Brigadier General Charles Young

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Adult Education

Brigadier General Charles Young led an extraordinary life of firsts. He was the first African American national park superintendent, the first African American Colonel in the U.S. Army and the first African American military attaché. Besides these personal achievements Young was also a mentor to many including students at Wilberforce University and future generations of Army officers including Benjamin O. Davis Sr.