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Acadia National Park
Virtual: What Do Rangers Do?
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Investigate various jobs that rangers do in National Parks. Learn about the variety of jobs it takes to keep Acadia running! What Do Rangers Do? is the prerequisite for completing the Junior Ranger Program and earning a Jr Ranger badge. Request your copy of our Jr. Ranger Book ahead of time, so you can choose the pages you want your students to work on. Discuss program conclusion with your ranger and whether you want a badge ceremony as part of the conclusion. (45 minutes)
Lowell National Historical Park
Do History and Science at the Tsongas Industrial History Center
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Science, History and many more field trip opportunities for your students at Lowell National Historical Park!
Acadia National Park
What Do Rangers Do? (3rd Grade)
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
One hour classroom program that introduces kids to the unique jobs that different rangers do via skits. Program works in tandem with Junior Ranger Day and all of the events lead up to kids earning their junior ranger badge.
Acadia National Park
What Do Rangers Do? Program Planner
- Type: Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
One hour classroom program that introduces kids to the unique jobs that different rangers do via skits. Program works in tandem with Junior Ranger Day and all of the events lead up to kids earning their junior ranger badge.
Rocky Mountain National Park
What Rangers Do
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Have you ever wondered what types of rangers it takes to protect the 429 National Park Service sites across the country? Join an education ranger as they explore these roles throughout the park service and see examples of these rangers at Rocky!
Acadia National Park
Do It Yourself Binoculars
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Make your own binoculars at home!
Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park
How do plants work?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Standard: S1L1 Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the basic needs of plants and animals
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will pull pictures from the internet and create memes depicting events, characters, and battles of the Southern Campaign.
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
Do Artifacts Tell Stories?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
How do the artifacts tell the stories of the soldiers and camp women who served in the Civil War? In this lesson, students: Compare and contrast what Civil War soldiers used during their free time and what you use today Learn how artifacts tell us about the life of a Civil War soldier
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
What Would YOU Do?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Abraham Lincoln learned many lessons on responsibility while growing up in Indiana. This lesson allows the teacher and students to share and talk about responsible actions.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Abraham Lincoln learned many lessons on responsibility while growing up in Indiana. This lesson allows the teacher and students to share and talk about responsible actions.
Assateague Island National Seashore
4th Grade| What Rangers Do
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will discover what National Park rangers do and the roles and responsibilities they have in protecting and preserving National Parks. Students will also receive their 4th grade Every Kid in a Park pass.
Olympic National Park
What Do Salmon Need To Survive?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students will be able to determine if salmon raised at school will survive in a local water source by testing conditions.
National Park of American Samoa
How Do Coral Reefs Form?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Coral reefs provide a variety of habitats, each with its own set of characteristic species. Each species of coral comes in different shapes and forms. Activities implemented will give students an understanding of how coral reefs are formed. Starting from a single “polyp”, to a coral with skeleton attached, finally to a coral reef. Students will identify three different types of corals most commonly found in American Samoa and understand their growth by applying hands on activities.
Indiana Dunes National Park
A Royal Journey
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The goal of A Royal Journey is to spread the voice on conservation and need of this threatened species. We also strive to bring a scientist’s journey into the concept of the student’s thinking. The dynamic timeliness of necessity has inspired the Indiana Dunes National Park to invite and educate students of today and adults of tomorrow to learn and save this imperiled species.
Denali National Park & Preserve
What Would You Do: Winter Wildlife
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
What adaptations are needed for the animals of Denali National Park and Preserve to make it through our long, cold, subarctic winters? This program illuminates the many amazing adaptations that allow the animals here to not only survive but thrive! It also makes connections between adaptation strategies that work in the subarctic and those that are relevant for animals closer to the students’ homes.
Ninety Six National Historic Site
Siege Tower: What would you do?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Objectives At the end of this activity, the student will be able to: - summarize the course of the American Revolution in South Carolina. - Compare the perspectives of South Carolinians during the American Revolution. - demonstrate an understanding of conflict between the American colonies and England.
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
What Would You Do? Grades 1-2
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Abraham Lincoln learned many lessons on responsibility while growing up in Indiana. This lesson allows the teacher and students to share and talk about responsible actions.
Acadia National Park
Virtual: Grades K-3: What do you Notice Videos?
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Sometimes called “I Notice, I Wonder Videos!” Complete with 1-page Fast Fact reference pages are available on our website. Share these ~1-minute non-narrated video clips of Acadia’s resources with students who can then generate “I Notice, I Wonder, & I’m Reminded of” statements. These observations, questions, and connections can be shared with their class, and teachers can utilize fast fact reference sheets to expand on their ideas.
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
What Would You Do? Plotting and Planning Strategies of the Civil War
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
High School level lesson plan allowing students to learn about the strategy behind Civil War battles.