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Showing 2,434 results for Living with a Volcano in Your Backyard ...
Mount Rainier National Park
Living with a Volcano in Your Backyard - Teacher Workshop
- Type: Teacher Workshops & Other Programs
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Kenai Fjords National Park
Swimming on Your Back
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Swimming on Your Back is a National Park Service published educational book focused on the sea otters in Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska. Sea otters are the largest members of the weasel family, and lack the blubber, and consequently size, that all other warm-blooded sea animals need to stay warm. So how do they survive our cold Alaskan waters? A National Park Ranger will answer this question and engage students with photos, story time, and song.
Acadia National Park
Bats in Your Backyard Program Description
- Type: Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Rangers join students in the classroom for 90 minutes to explore the risks currently facing bats and what researchers are doing to protect bats in Acadia.
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Activities for children to learn about sea otters in Alaska.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Determine how environmental management, technology, and the actions of 19th-century industrialists contributed to a disaster in Pennsylvania that shocked the nation. Also understand why a community spent funds to restore a railway built to save lives.
President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site
Back to the Future
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Working in groups, students will answer one of the following questions: 1. How would President Bill Clinton's life have changed if certain circumstances did not happen? 2. What if President Clinton had gone to Harvard instead of Yale, where he met Hillary? 3. What if President Clinton had not returned to Arkansas after college? 4. What if President clinton had not become Governor of Arkansas?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn why this home in Fredericksburg, Virginia, was a center of military activity, and consider the impact the war had on those whose property became part of the battlefield.
Channel Islands National Park
Channel Islands Live Hike: What’s in Your Backpack, Park Ranger?
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students explore park ranger jobs through meeting a ranger in an interactive distance learning program. Students learn about job responsibilities by using objects from the ranger's backpack as discussion prompts. Program was specially developed for classes reading Exploring Parks with Ranger Dockett in their Houghton Mifflin Harcourt language arts textbook. Can be adapted for other grade levels.
Haleakalā National Park
Protecting a Volcano
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to determine how Haleakalā National Park protects natural, cultural, and geologic resources and how the students can help protect them too.
Mount Rainier National Park
A String of Volcanoes
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students research information about Cascade volcanoes in Washington, Oregon, and California, then transfer the information onto the appropriate mobile piece before constructing the mobile "A String of Volcanoes".
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Learn about different types of volcanoes and why the stratovolcanoes near Florissant Fossil Beds were highly explosive over 34 million years ago.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will work to calculate time, distance, gas mileage from home to three important Southern Campaign of the American Revolution: Cowpens National Battlefield, Kings Mountain National Military Park, and Ninety Six National Historic Site.
Acadia National Park
Are You Wild?
- Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students will be able to distinguish between wild and domestic animals.
Glacier National Park
You Are Here
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students first map from memory where they spend most of their time and then consider the concepts of scale and distance.
Mount Rainier National Park
Volcano Fan Club
- Type: Science Labs
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students simulate tephra transport by placing ingredients in front of running fan, and mapping the resultant layers.
Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve
Nocturnal Lives
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will understand the difficulty nocturnal creatures have and the reasons they come out at night.
First State National Historical Park
What Would You Take With You on the Underground Railroad?
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Interactive Underground Railroad program for students that can accompany the “Emeline’s Journey” tour or stand alone. Student choose item they would take with them if they were a runaway enslaved person. This program takes place at the New Castle Court House Museum.
President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site
Back to the Future: Research Project
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will research President Clinton and the Birthplace Home National Historic Site website and use a four square organizer to answer the Essential question.
Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site
Who Should Decide Where and How You Live? An Exploration of President Grant's Indian Policies
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This 30 to 40 minute distance learning program offers an introduction to President Ulysses S. Grant's Indian Policies. Students will learn about the history of U.S. Indian policy through a collection of primary sources to be studied ahead of time followed by a facilitated dialogue with a Park Ranger about President Grant's policies.
Cedar Creek & Belle Grove National Historical Park
Explore Your Park!
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This park ranger-led classroom program is designed for 4th grade students. They will learn about the National Park Service, Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park, and the people and events of the Civil War in the Shenandoah Valley. Students will have the opportunity to engage with a hands-on activity about Civil War uniforms and camp equipment. Every Kid Outdoors 4th grade access passes will be distributed to students.