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Cowpens National Battlefield

This Land is Your Land

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

This Land is Your Land is an interesting and aggressive lesson that incorporates research, hands on activities and on-site learning to illustrate and reinforce how the geographic features of Upstate South Carolina contributed to the Patriot strategy in their ultimate success at the Battle of Cowpens, 1781

Homestead National Historical Park

Land Use

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

In "Land Use," students discuss how people live and survive in their environments. The Homesteaders, Immigrants, and Native Americans unit is broken up into five lesson plans, taking 45-120 minutes to complete, targeting sixth through eighth grade students. A class does not have to complete every lesson in the unit - each lesson comes with its own set of objectives and resources. This is lesson 3 of the unit.

Glacier National Park

Stewards of the Land

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

Students learn about the four main tribes associated with the Glacier area. Then watch videos with tribal leaders and elders talking about their tribe’s relationship to Glacier National Park and why they feel it’s important to take care of the park. Students will reflect/discuss messages in the videos and write a contemporary story that teaches about caring for the Earth. Homework: Student Reading 1: People and Glacier National Park.

Denali National Park & Preserve

Lessons from the Land

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

How have Alaska Natives, gold rush prospectors, hunter-naturalists, and visitors to Denali National Park and Preserve made use of this land through time? Find out in this fun, history-rich program, where we explore multiple land-use perspectives from past to present, and ultimately look forward into the future.

Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve

Land of Many Opportunists

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

Through this activity, students will learn how aggressive exotic species take advantage of a wide range of resources in order to expand their range and compete in a nonnative habitat.

Haleakalā National Park

He Aha Lā He Kūkulu?

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

Kekahi hale Hawaiʻi ma kahi o Ka Pāka Aupuni Ma Ka Moku O Kīpahulu

Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park

Learning the Land and The Passaic River & Water Power

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

A two-part environmental science program that invites students to learn about the formation of the Paterson Great Falls and how they have been used to create power.

Bering Land Bridge National Preserve

Virtual Tour of Bering Land Bridge National Preserve

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

Welcome to Bering Land Bridge National Preserve! Join us from the comfort of your own classroom as we explore one of the nation’s most remote national park units. Learn about the rugged and wild landscape of the tundra and what it takes for plants and animals to survive in this challenging environment.

Petrified Forest National Park

Every Kid In a Park - Exploring Public Lands and Waters

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

Every Kid in a Park: Grade 4, 30 minutes in the park (45-60 min pre-visit lesson) Students meet a ranger in the park for a 30 minute question and answer session. This program can be conducted at any overlook or trail in the park. 4th grader passes are issued to the class at the end of the program.

Alaska Public Lands

Live Virtual Visits to the Alaska Public Lands Visitor Center

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

The Alaska Public Lands Information Center, hosts exhibits representing natural, historical, and cultural features throughout the state. Wandering among the exhibits, visitors get a mini tour of Alaska. One can also learn about recreating on public lands in the state as well as materials for educators to bring back to their classrooms.

Gateway Arch National Park

ECO Rangers Summer Camp

• Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Explore what lives in our lakes, ponds, streams, forests, and prairie lands. Do the same macros live in the creeks and ponds? What birds and animals live in the prairie lands vs woodlands? Fish the lakes and rivers, fine tune your archery marksmanship, net for macros in ponds, and search for the birds in our Missouri’s public lands.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Learn at the Ledges

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

Hike the Ledges and discover how geologic processes have shaped the land. Look for evidence of how erosion and deposition have changed the land, examine how weathering occurs and explore the rocks that make up the Ledges.

Alaska Public Lands

Ask an Alaskan Ranger!

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

Fulfill your students' curiosity about Alaska by speaking with a park ranger at the Alaska Public Lands Information Center!

Whiskeytown National Recreation Area

The Wintu of Whiskeytown

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

Image of California’s Native American tribe boundaries with the Wintu traditional lands in Northern California labeled with a pin mark.

Homestead National Historical Park

The Homestead Act of 1862 (6th - 8th)

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

The Homestead Act of 1862 impacted the United States in numerous ways. In this virtual lesson a Park Ranger will talk about how the Homestead Act of 1862 populated the West and the needs of those settling. Discussion includes how the United States acquired the land given away and the specific requirements to claim one's free land.

Buffalo National River

Buffalo Caves and Karst

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

This lesson was designed to help students learn about karst landscapes and how erosion can form various land features (ex. caves).

Frederica: An 18th-Century Planned Community

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

Discover why this British settlement was built and how it functioned as Great Britain and Spain each struggled to control land from Charleston to St. Augustine.

First State National Historical Park

How the Native Americans Lived

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

Students will travel back in time to gain an understanding of how people can survive off the land. This program takes place at the New Castle Court House Museum.

Fort Larned National Historic Site

Fort Larned Around the Room Scavenger Hunt

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

In this lesson, students will learn about Fort Larned and its impact on people and lands around it. Students will take part in an around the room scavenger hunt as they read and answer questions.

Gateway Arch National Park

American Indians and the Great Plains

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

American Indians have lived in North America for thousands of years. All of the lands that make up the United States today were exclusively Indigenous lands long before Europeans first arrived about 500 years ago. The growth of the United States through westward expansion challenged traditional ways of life for many Indigenous tribes during the 1800s as more settlers crossed the Mississippi River for a new life in the West.