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Rocky Mountain National Park

Sounds of Rocky

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

Rocky Mountain National Park's 415 square miles hold an expansive library of sounds- from rushing waterfalls in the spring to the sounds of elk bugling in the fall. Students will become sound scientists, performing three experiments to uncover the properties of sound and studying how three animals hear and use sound in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Acadia National Park

Sound Mapping

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

Students learn that scientists make observations using a variety of senses. Students practice the skill of observation through listening to collect data in their local environment.

Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve

The World of Underwater Sound

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

Students will learn about sound and its role in the environment through listening to their own surrounding and the sounds of Glacier Bay.

Arches National Park

Heat, Light, and Sound

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

In these lessons, students investigate how energy moves through desert ecosystems in the form of heat, light, and sound. Students learn about insulators for heat and how sunscreen works to protect skin from UV light. They use sound to search for birds, and lenses to complete a scavenger hunt. The lesson concludes with a discussion about how too much heat, light, or sound can be harmful.

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

Sound Intensity & Loudness

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

Students learn how to measure intensity and loudness, the difference between sound and noise, and when a sound is considered noise pollution.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

Activities for Home - Dark Skies

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

Night Sky over Kīlauea Caldera NPS Photo/Janice Wei

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

The Sound of Buffalo Soldiers! A Musical Bridge to Communities

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Adult Education

How has music influenced your connection to a community? Throughout the history of the United States military, music has been part of the sound experience of soldiers. For the Buffalo Soldiers, music also served as a tool to build a connection to the communities they served.

Acadia National Park

Poetry in Nature

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

Once students have made their observations, instruct them to write a poem about them. You can have them use any form of poetry, or you can instruct them to focus on a specific form (haiku, five senses, etc.) or element (sound device, imagery, etc.).

Acadia National Park

Nature Imprint

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

Students can find three natural objects outside in their surroundings that they can use to imprint in clay to create a necklace, ornament, or other art creation.

Nature's Neighborhoods

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

The Mojave Desert contains several different natural communities.On their field trip, students will take a one-mile nature walk to compare a few animal and plant communities found in the Mojave Desert. Materials for a pre-visit and post-visit activity are included.

Acadia National Park

Nature Journaling

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

Students will explore nature through journaling in a notebook. Students will learn to observe nature with four of their five senses. Students will notice how shadows change over time and with the seasons and develop a model of why these shadows change over time.

Acadia National Park

Nature Quilts

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

Students will spend time observing and collecting images of nature to build a nature quilt and create an “I noticed, I wonder” chart.

Acadia National Park

Virtual: Grades 7-10: Waves in Acadia – Sound and Light

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

Draw sonograms. Measure infrared. Chart radio waves. Explore real world examples of light and sound waves in Acadia National Park with this interactive, virtual program. (1 hour)

The Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feelings at the Battle of Palo Alto

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

During the Battle of Palo Alto, U.S. and Mexican soldiers experienced the thunder of cannon and the sight of cannonballs in the air. You can also discover the sights, sounds, and sensations soldiers experienced during the battle. Students will read primary and secondary quotes about the battle and use them to fill out a graphic organizer. They will convert the weight of cannonballs from pounds to ounces and discuss how the quotes and cannonball weights affected the outcome of the battle.

Glacier National Park

Balance of Nature Pyramid

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

Students will identify different food chains in a forest habitat and recognize that change to a habitat affects the animals living there. They will physically form food chain pyramids in a forest habitat and observe the effect of beaver arrival.

Rocky Mountain National Park

Natural Hazards Happening Now

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

Rocky Mountain National Park and its surrounding communities have experienced major flooding events. In this program, students will act as meteorologists and study historic floods using a virtual flood table model. Students will apply their new knowledge to predict future natural hazards.

Guadalupe Mountains National Park

McKittrick Canyon Nature Trail

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

The McKittrick Canyon Nature Trail, which begins at the contact station, is a .09 mile loop, with interpretive signs along the way. This short trail offers students a hands-on opportunity to study fossil and read about Permian Age geology or learn about native Chihuahuan desert plants.

Fort Donelson National Battlefield

Natural History Collection at FODO

• Type: Online Galleries
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Ground pine found on the park trail. Native plants are helpful to prevent soil erosion and to enrich the soil.

OO, OO, OO, Nature

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

This lesson is part one (the first set of OOs!) in a three-part framework called “OO, OO, OO, Nature!” that teaches students about three types of outdoor observation: 1)Observing Outside: observe the natural elements at their school 2)Observing Ourselves: observe our own behavior outdoors 3)Observing Others: observe others’ behavior outdoors The repeating “OO” mnemonic is designed to remind burgeoning nature observers of these three different ways of observing when outdoors.

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

So You Wanna Be a Paleontologist?

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

Students will become familiarized with fossils that have been uncovered in Florissant Fossil Beds from the Eocene and Quaternary. They will select a certain extinct species and make a sketch on a Popsicle stick canvas. After shuffling their Popsicle stick fossil, they will then hide the sticks around a room and have someone else find and "excavate" the Popsicle stick fossil and attempt to put it back together. Best done with a partner to exchange fossils to find and put together.