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Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

Leave No Trace

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

This program introduces students to the Leave No Trace principles, which are easy to understand guidelines on how to responsibly play in the outdoors.

Acadia National Park

Leave No Trace Kindergarten Routines

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Leave No Trace is a framework for interacting with the natural environment in a sustainable way. These activities review the first two principles: Plan Ahead and Prepare, and Walk or Camp on Durable Surfaces.

Acadia National Park

Looking at Leaves

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

In this first part of a study of leaves, students will learn to differentiate leaves from different plants, shrubs & trees by looking at attributes including leaf shape, edges and arrangement. Students will become familiar with these attributes as they first sort, then hunt for and draw a variety of leaves.

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park

Time to Move: The Lincolns are Leaving Kentucky

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

It's time to move! Discover the factors that contributed to the relocation of the Lincoln family from their Kentucky home. Lesson plan includes video made by kids for kids! Meets Kentucky 3rd-5th grade social studies standards. This lesson was created by Kentucky teachers as a part of the History and Science Explore Project.

Hopewell Culture National Historical Park

Tracing the Past

• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This lesson is about the processes of archeology: finding, excavating, analyzing, and interpreting prehistoric archeological data.

Glacier National Park

Track Traces

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

Students will use their creative skills to make drawings or designs using animal tracks. This activity will help internalize the tracks they have been studying.

Natchez Trace Parkway

Traces Through Time: A General History of the Natchez Trace

• Type: Distance Learning ... Field Trips ... Field Schools & Institutes
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Are you a person who likes history or national parks? Join us for 45-minutes and learn the history of the Parkway, going back thousands of years when bison roamed through today. Learn about the people, explorations and stories held along this special place.

Making a Trace Fossil

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

Students get the opportunity to understand the difference between a trace fossil and impressions made in sediment through weathering.

Natchez Trace Parkway

Those Who Walked Before Us: American Indians of the Natchez Trace

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

There is always so much to learn from people who were here before us. Join us in this 45-minute program in learning about the people who called this place home for over 12,000 years. From the Paleo-Indian period, the Trail of Tears to today, the American Indians of Natchez Trace have seen it all.

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

Girl Scouts Cadette Eco Trekker at Carl Sandburg Home NHS

• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Follow this Girl Scouts Cadette "Eco Trekker" badge lesson to plan a visit with your scouts at Carl Sandburg Home NHS. Girls will learn about invasive species, leave no trace and how to practice eco friendly trekking while enjoying the outdoors.

Yellowstone National Park

Atomic Elements and Archeology: Tracing Ancient Resource Access and Trade Routes Using XRF

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

X-ray fluorescence (XRF) is one scientific tool archeologists use to study the chemical composition of artifacts found on a site. This lesson plan illustrates the method behind XRF and describes how the resulting data can illustrate where and how ancient peoples obtained resources, whether through local sources or trade. Este plan de clase con actividades incluido también está disponible en español.

What is a National Park?

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

Students will analyze the arrowhead logo as an introduction to the National Park Service. Students learn how the design of the National Park Service arrowhead is made up of symbols, and then have a chance to create their own design specific to Hawai‘i. We will then be introducing ways that we can help care for our parks through the 7 Leave No Trace principles, and help students to understand that the National Parks belong to each and every one of us!

Hot Springs National Park

What's in the Ranger's Backpack

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

“What’s in a Rangers Backpack” is an interactive program to introduce students to the National Park Service and prepare them to visit Hot Springs National Park. The program involves discussion of the meaning of parks, introduces students to the NPS symbol and the resources protected by national parks, and discusses the NPS sites here in Arkansas. This program is ideal for students preparing to visit Hot Springs or part of the Every Kid Outdoors program.

Acadia National Park

Leaf Rubbing Activity

• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students can find three different leaves, use them to do a leaf rubbing and then use vocabulary words to describe the leaves.

How Living Things Become Fossils

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

Students bring in small leaves, bones, and/or shells and make their own fossils.

Fossil Butte National Monument

Leafy Thermometers and Rain Gauges

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

During this six-part activity, students investigate climate and climate change. Using fossil leaves from southwestern Wyoming and modern leaves from their area, students classify leaves, determine mean annual temperature and precipitation using leaf margin and leaf area analysis, analyze climate data (temperature and precipitation), and make statements about climate change.

Acadia National Park

K-2: Monarch Migration

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

Students and teacher will read a book about the milkweed plant and monarch butterflies. A local Master Gardener will show students how to plant the seeds and what the growing process will look like. Students will learn about the second phase of this project, to commence in the spring. Students will search for good nectar plants on school grounds.

Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve

Anna Kingsley A Teacher's Guide

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

This lesson traces Anna Kingsley’s life through official documents and interpretation.

Natchez Trace Parkway

Read with a Ranger If You Were a Kid During the Civil War

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

Are your early elementary students interested in history and the Natchez Trace? This program employs a story of two friends, a boy and a girl, to teach young people about the injustices which occurred during the Civil War. This program also ties these themes to the Natchez Trace and its history during the Civil War and the role the Natchez Trace played in preserving slavery.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

Wahikapu o Pele "Sacred Place of Pele"

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

The goal of this field trip is to leave students with a deeper, more connected understanding of the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, and the cultural components that play into it. By teaching students about the stories and history which make up this area of land, students will be able to see things in a much more grounded perspective. Students will leave with a deeper understanding of Hawaiian thinking and the ability to understand the connection of science and folklore.