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Park for Every Classroom
  • Type: Teacher Workshops & Other Programs
  • Grade Levels: Adult Education
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Learn more and apply now to take part in this free workshop for K-12 teachers of all disciplines.

Mississippi National River & Recreation Area

Online Classroom Visits
  • Type: Guest Speakers
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Teachers! Sign up your class for a 30-minute virtual classroom visit from a National Park Service ranger or partnering staff focused on a wide selection of topics such as otters, environmental stewardship, or the history of Upper St. Anthony Falls!

Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site

Classroom Ranger Talk
  • Type: Guest Speakers
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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If your class wants to learn more about Ulysses S. Grant but you're not able to visit the park, have no fear. We'll come to you!

Gateway Arch National Park

Frontier Classroom Traveling Trunk
  • Type: Traveling Trunk
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Schools were much different in the 1800s compared to today's classrooms. In this traveling trunk, students will join the adventures of four children--Toussaint, Joshua, Catherine, and Jessie--as they experience schools in early St. Louis and on the Western frontier.

Andersonville National Historic Site

Using the Film "Andersonville" in the Classroom
  • Type: Teacher Reference Materials
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
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Popular media, such as books and films, have long been used to teach the story of Andersonville. The 1996 film "Andersonville" continues to be a popular classroom tool. This material is intended to assist teachers in clearly identifying historical reality versus Hollywood illusion and aiding students to think critically about the portrayal of historic events.

Women's Rights National Historical Park

Pathways to Equality: Traveling History Classroom
  • Type: Traveling Trunk
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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This Traveling History Classroom contains a hands-on study of the antislavery movement and Quakers, and how they influenced the First Women's Rights Convention. It includes a study guide that used documents, images, diary and letter excerpts, and reproduction items and clothing to explore how Quakers and antislavery reformers brought about the Seneca Falls Convention.

Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve

Slavery Systems in America, a classroom lesson
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
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Students will use Kingsley Plantation as a setting to explore how slave systems in Florida varied under the Spanish, British, and American rule.

Acadia National Park

Outdoor Classroom: Weather K-2
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
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This unit introduces K-2 students to the concept of weather and how it influences their lives and the communities around them. Using tools, students observe, discuss, measure, record, data on wind, precipitation and temperature.

César E. Chávez National Monument

César’s Road, Rangers in the Classroom Program
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
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Many people have heard of César Chávez and how he fought for rights and justice for agricultural workers, but what were the conditions that nurtured his activism? Our education rangers guide students in a math activity that puts them in César's shoes, showing how difficult it was for migrant farmworkers to have stable housing. Finally, they learn how César Chávez fought for better conditions for farmworkers.

César E. Chávez National Monument

The Power of One, Rangers in the Classroom Program
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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This program introduces students to the story of César Chávez and the United Farm Workers. Students explore how the impact of one person can be magnified through coalition-building and collective actions. After a short presentation on the life of César Chávez , students brainstorm ways to confront injustice and compare them to the methods César Chávez used in organizing farmworkers, The lesson culminates in a collaborative math activity.

Invaders of the Great Lakes Classroom Program
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
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Students will learn about the Great Lakes and be introduced to the ecological impact of invasive species in this region. An optional pre-site program is designed to orient students to terminology used by land managers when controlling invasive species. Students will watch the virtual program in which National Park Service rangers will talk about the Great Lakes and introduce the concept of invasive species to classrooms. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist focus on sea lamprey and their control.

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

Class of Discovery
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Class of Discovery is the most in-depth ranger/teacher conducted program at the park. Students become the members of the expedition while they visit the park and participate in hands-on activities to learn what life was like during the time the Corps of Discovery stayed at Fort Clatsop.

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

Traveling Trunks: Bringing Kennesaw Mountain to the Classroom
  • Type: Traveling Trunk
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Our traveling trunks are packed with items that facilitate a connection between students and the experiences of soldiers and civilians during the Civil War.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Battle of Cowpens – Reader’s Theater Script for Classroom
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The student will be able to: ●Identify key people in the battle and in the Revolutionary War ●Summarize the immediate and long term outcomes of the battle ●Summarize the role of geography in the battle ●Identify the effects of Morgan’s leadership style ●Summarize backcountry attitudes towards the British (in late 1780/early 1781)

Cane River Creole National Historical Park

Ranger Classroom Visit (3rd-5th Grade)
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Bring the park to you with our Rangers in the Classroom programs! Our Park Rangers will come to your classroom with interactive activities that were designed to meet Louisiana Believes learning standards.

Cane River Creole National Historical Park

Ranger Classroom Visit (K-2nd Grade)
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
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Bring the park to you with our Rangers in the Classroom programs! Our Park Rangers will come to your classroom with interactive activities that were designed to meet Louisiana Believes learning standards.

Stones River National Battlefield

The Stones River Classroom: Ranger Guided Field Trip
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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You may select one or more of our Field Trip Programs for your visit. Curriculum standards listed represent the most common standards met by our programs. Park rangers can work with teachers to develop customized programs to meet other standards.

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha (Should the Dams on the Elwha be Removed? A Classroom Debate)
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Dams have been useful to human populations in providing water and energy for development of wilderness areas. Should we remove dams that have outlived their use in order to enhance the sustainability of natural and human communities?

Acadia National Park

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

Phenology is the study of when natural cues in the environment happen and how those cues can change over time. This unit ranges from seed dispersal, to plant identification, to invasive species.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

Hulihia Kīlauea – a Complete Change part 3, post-visit classroom activities and assessment
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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These final classroom activities allow students to contemplate the risks involved in living in areas subject to natural disasters. They can investigate their local emergency response plans, learn from family or friends about natural disaster experiences, and synthesize what they have learned.