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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

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

National Parks: Where Plants Hold a Place of Honor! Grades 2-3

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

This lesson plan, designed for grades 2 and 3 uses common core and ngss standards to teach students that some National Parks were established to protect specific plant species. In doing so, students will learn the importance of plants within their ecosystems.

Assateague Island National Seashore

3rd Grade| Horse Genetics: Build an Assateague Horse!

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

Assateague is known for its wild horses, but do all horses look the same? Student's decode a DNA "recipe" for their own Assateague horse to see firsthand how variations in DNA lead to the inheritance of different traits. Program length: 45 minutes NGSS 3-LS3-1

Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument

Owl Pellets from the Past

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

The students will develop an understanding of animal identification through bones and bone fragments found in their owl pellets and how they are connected to fossils found at the Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument.

Glacier National Park

Winter-time Temps

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

Students will become aware of temperature variations above the snow and below the snow and its affects on wildlife, by collecting and recording temperature data from a variety of locations.

Curecanti National Recreation Area

Population of Great Blue Heron in Curecanti

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

Using data from the park, students analyze the great blue heron population living in Curecanti National Recreation Area from 1989-2019. Students identify potential limiting factors that influenced the sudden decline in great blue heron population and identify which ones are density dependent and density independent factors. They also hypothesize what might happen to the population and learn about the value of citizen science.

Colorado National Monument

Little Explorers: A Nature Adventure for K-2 Learners

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

Topics: Plants & Animals, Explorer Skills, Using Senses | This program for lower elementary engages natural interests in discovery and adventure on a small scale through a guided scavenger hunt, a coloring activity, acting as local animals, and dancing out the needs of plants.

George Washington Carver National Monument

George Washington Carver - An Original Conservationist: Introduction

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

Unit lessons include: Lesson 1: George Washington Carver-An Original Conservationist: The Man, The Scientist the Artist Lesson 2: George Washington Carver-An Original Conservationist: Sharing the Soil Lesson 3: George Washington Carver-An Original Conservationist: The Importance of Compost Lesson 4: George Washington Carver-An Original Conservationist: Alternative Uses for Everyday Products Lesson 5: George Washington Carver-An Original Conservationist: Welcome to the 21st Century

Colorado National Monument

Illustrating Life in Canyon Country

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

Rangers will lead your students through a short tour of a natural history museum, followed by a step-by-step live drawing tutorial that highlights the unique desert adaptations of wildlife at Colorado National Monument.

Colorado National Monument

Tiny & Mighty: Elementary Life Science

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

Topics: Life Cycles, Adaptations, Structure/Function, Seasonal Change, Habitats/Ecosystems | Students use lenses (binoculars, field microscopes, magnifying lenses) to explore basic life science principles in the local environment.

George Washington Carver National Monument

George Washington Carver - An Original Conservationist: Alternative Uses for Everyday Materials

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

This topic is a focus on alternative uses for source materials and products that can be made with alternative materials. Students will make peanut milk in an effort to understand how foods can be used in different ways to increase nutrition to the consumer. Students will create a pros/cons poster researching products (such as fuel) and comparing traditional source materials (crude oil) with alternative materials (corn or soy-based ethanol).

George Washington Carver National Monument

George Washington Carver - An Original Conservationist: Sharing the Soil

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

For this activity students will create a brochure for farmers. The brochure will describe the needs each crop has (soil type, weather, etc.), the impact of the crop on the soil and the different ways the crop can be used. Students will focus on cotton, tobacco, peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes. The goal is for students to understand the impact cash crops may have on soil quality and how farmers can replenish their soil through crop rotation.

Colorado National Monument

Four for Fourth: Comprehensive 4th Grade Science (Every Kid Outdoors)

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

Topics: Adaptations, Weathering/Erosion/Deposition, Structure/Function, Force/Energy/Motion | This 4th grade stations program combines four subjects (Animals, Geology, Plants, and Water), where learners in small groups investigate each component of the ecosystem.

George Washington Carver National Monument

George Washington Carver - An Original Conservationist: Welcome to the 21st Century

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

This activity will serve as the culmination to an ecological unit, especially those on current environmental problems. Students will take the role of George Washington Carver from 100 years ago. They will evaluate current ecological problems as if they were George Washington Carver. Their goal is to understand how the world has changed in the last century but also to recognize how solutions for today’s problems may have been around for decades and just need to be implemented.

George Washington Carver - An Original Conservationist: The Importance of Compost

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

This lesson will look at the impact of artificially created fertilizers on the quality of the soil, especially in comparison with natural compost. Students will begin by creating their own compost. The “Compost in a Bottle Lab” is a long-term lab that should be started 3-4 weeks prior to beginning this lesson. Try to time it so that this lesson comes at the time when students are collecting their last set of data on their compost. Students also create a presentation product.

Glacier National Park

What is Winter?

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

Students will learn how the movement of the earth around the sun (as well as the tilt, for older groups) causes the winter season. This activity will use group participation, demonstations, diagrams, and a globe.

George Washington Carver National Monument

George Washington Carver - An Original Conservationist: The Man, the Scientist, The Artist

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

Today’s focus is to gather a basic understanding of who GWC was, where he came from, how he got his education, what purpose he saw for his life and the focus of his work. More depth can be added by having students complete presentations over Carver. By breaking the class into groups each group can do their own presentation over the whole topic or can be focused on one portion so that through the whole class all the information is gathered and provided to students.

Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument

Fossil Teeth: Changing Climates and Evolutionary Responses Preserved in the Fossil Record (Lesson Plan by Geoscientist-in-the-Park Gina Roberti)

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

Students will look at changes in tooth size and shape (morphology) in the fossil record of herbivorous mammals in North America using data from a recent paleontological study. Students will infer factors which caused the observed evolutionary adaptions and link biological adaptation with global climate change and localized habitat change.

Which Bear?

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

Students compare black, grizzly, and polar bear shapes, sizes, tracks and food.

Glacier National Park

Puzzle it Out

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

Students will identify the components of Earth’s climate system using a puzzle.