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Acadia National Park

Organisms in and Around Water

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

• Students will take a look at different ways water makes its way to a pond/lake. • Students will also be thinking about how that water carries contaminants and sediment and what impact that has on ponds/lakes. • Students will make a food chain and/or a food web to share what biotic factors play a role in watersheds.

Fort Pulaski National Monument

Pre-visit Graphic Organizer

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students can complete the spider acitivty as a pre-visit activity prior to making a field trip to Fort Pulaski. Answers are included.

Andrew Johnson National Historic Site

No Laughing Matter

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

Learn about political cartoons and how they were used to reflect public opinion about Andrew Johnson during his presidency.

Matter in Motion

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

Students explore how matter moves through the Earth’s ecosystems, by focusing on carbon. In the classroom, they role play how carbon moves through Earth’s systems. On the field trip, they simulate food chains and photosynthesis. They examine decomposers and test the properties of soil crusts.

Changes in Matter

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

Students learn the difference between physical and chemical changes in matter, and go for a hike to observe both in nature. At stations, students explore how rocks are weathered by both physical and chemical changes. Students then observe the mechanisms scientists use to measure ozone in the lower atmosphere and act out the chemical changes that destroy ozone in the upper atmosphere.

Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park

Voice Matters

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This program is guided by a ranger through a series of slides where students are given background information and asked questions that require them to evaluate their own thoughts and experiences and compare to others through facilitated dialogue.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Why Water Matters

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

The Cuyahoga River gained national attention when TIME magazine published the infamous burning river photograph in 1969. Though the incident helped propel improved standards in water quality nationwide and ultimately helped inspire the Clean Water Act, we continue to struggle as a nation with water quality issues. Explore the topic of water quality with your students and help them discover that water quality issues are a global environmental problem.

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park

Every Decision Matters

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

Stay or go? Obey or resist? For slaves, every choice had life-altering impacts. When choosing to seek her own freedom, Harriet Tubman risked her life and health and left behind the only community she had ever known. To stay meant she risked sale and continued to live in the limited and brutal conditions of slavery. To return so her loved ones could experience freedom risked a return to slavery but offered new life. What factored into a slave's choices?

Booker T Washington National Monument

War on the Home Front: Civil War Reading Passage with Graphic Organizer

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

The Civil War and its outcomes were life-changing events for all the people, both free and enslaved, who were associated with the Burroughs Plantation from 1850 – 1865. Students will learn about: •Life on a piedmont Virginia, slaveholding tobacco farm •National debate on slavery/Differences between North and South •Why the war was fought •How the enslaved and their owners reacted to the war •How each group was affected after the war

National Park of American Samoa

'Ie Toga (Fine Mat): Samoan Traditions of Weaving

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

The giving and receiving of ‘ie tōga (fine mats) is an integral part of Fa’a Samoa (Samoan Way). These fine mats are used for special occasions such as weddings, funerals, and the bestowing of chiefly titles. Fine mats have been passed down from generation to generation. These fine mats are as enduring as our Samoan culture.

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park

Family Matters: The Life of a Slave Family Pre-Visit Activity

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

Family was central to Harriet Tubman's life. As she wrote, "I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land; and my home, after all, was down in Maryland; because my father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were there. But I was free, and they should be free." What compelled Tubman to return for her loved ones on multiple trips to guide them to freedom?

Glacier National Park

Eco-enrichers

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

Students evaluate the importance of soil as well as plant and animal matter as contributors to soil through observing earthworms decompose composting materials.

Haleakalā National Park

He Aha Lā He Kūkulu?

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

Kekahi hale Hawaiʻi ma kahi o Ka Pāka Aupuni Ma Ka Moku O Kīpahulu

Fossil Butte National Monument

The Fossil Cycle

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

In this lesson plan, students will roll homemade dice to discover if their organism became a fossil or not to demonstrate how difficult it is for an organism to be preserved.

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.

Find Your Plankton

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

Plankton are microscopic organisms that live in large bodies of water.

Glacier National Park

Life in a Log

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

The students will investigate decomposers in a rotting log, and discover some of the organisms living there.

Using Dichotomous Keys

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

A dichotomous key is an important scientific tool, used to identify different organisms, based the organism’s observable traits. Dichotomous keys consist of a series of statements with two choices in each step that will lead users to the correct identification.

East Coast and West Coast Estuaries: Compare and Contrast

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

The student will be able to organize details about two estuaries on opposite coasts in a way that highlights how the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound are similar and how they are different. Given prompts, students will research, collect and organize details in a chart type format.

Grand Teton National Park

What is Wild

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

The lesson allows students to think about and discuss their role and the importance of protecting habitats for different types of organisms.