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National Park Legacy - Voyagers

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

Teachers will need to get enough copies of brochures for one or more national park units (you can do a google search for "park brochure" + the national park unit's name to get online brochures that are printable) for this activity. Students will analyze information on the brochure and complete the attached worksheet. Teachers can use this activity to prepare students for an upcoming trip to their nearest national park unit.

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.

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

So You Wanna Be a Paleobotanist?

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

Students will re-create scientific studies done by paleobotanists analyzing data from fossil plants found at Florissant Fossil Beds to draw conclusions about the paleoclimate 34 million years ago. In this activity, students will identify fossil plant species by their leaves, review data on the growing conditions of their nearest modern plant relatives, and compare as many species as possible to determine the range of temperature and precipitation that the fossil plant community can live in.

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site

Fort Union Society and Trading

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Daily life at Fort Union Trading Post reflected the social and economic relationship between and within American Indian and European cultures associated with the 19th century fur-trading empire. This teacher resource document provides a unique look into Fort Union's inhabitants and social hierarchy.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

Navigating Through Time: From Way Finding To Satellite Grades 6-12

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

Polynesians had a unique sense of place and where they were on an island. They had a vast knowledge of their island home from the mountain to the ocean. Polynesians used a system that is known as wayfinding to chart their destination. Today we use modern navigational tools to find our way through the world.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

So you want to be an American President

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

This lesson is opened with a discussion, followed by the reading of Judith St. George and David Small's book, "So you want to be President", then progress into assignments, presentations, gallery walk and awards as applicable to the teacher.

Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site

The Many Meanings of Justice in American Society

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

What is the meaning of justice? How did Ulysses S. Grant try to promote justice for all during his presidency? This field trip is geared for middle school students and addresses Grant's roles as U.S. general and president during the Civil War era.

Catoctin Mountain Park

The Blacksmith in Society: Lesson 4 - The Price of Freedom

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

To show students how slaves were utilized and marketed to meet the economic needs of the slave owner. To acquaint students with strategies slaves utilized to gain freedom, i.e., purchase of their time, purchase of family members or self, escape or manumission. To demonstrate the earning potential of a typical 19th century blacksmith. To introduce documentation, written by slaves, describing the working conditions and life-styles of slaves.

Everglades National Park

"What's So Special?" Environment: 4-6 Grade

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

Students will draw a favorite plant, animal, or activity common to the Everglades environment and explain, in writing, the reason they chose it. This will help students recognize and identify one valuable aspect of a national park’s environment, and draw conclusions as to why they value that aspect of the environment.

Catoctin Mountain Park

The Blacksmith in Society Lesson Plan #5 - Revitalizing the Spirit

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

To illustrate how the use, conservation or depletion of natural resources affects an area. To show how people "return to nature" hoping to find inspiration that will help them cope with the stresses of their everyday lives. To tell how Franklin Roosevelt's economic recovery programs jumpstarted the American economy and left a legacy for future generations.

Catoctin Mountain Park

The Blacksmith in Society Lesson Plan #5 - Revitalizing the Spirit

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

To illustrate how the use, conservation or depletion of natural resources affects an area. To show how people "return to nature" hoping to find inspiration that will help them cope with the stresses of their everyday lives. To tell how Franklin Roosevelt's economic recovery programs jumpstarted the American economy and left a legacy for future generations.

Catoctin Mountain Park

The Blacksmith in Society: Lesson 1- Economic Incentives for Industrial Development

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

After comparing incentives offered to an 18th century blacksmith with incentives offered to modern corporations, students will understand how economic strategies are used to encourage industrial and community growth.

Catoctin Mountain Park

The Blacksmith in Society: Lesson 4 - The Price of Freedom Grades 6-8

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

To show students how slaves were utilized and marketed to meet the economic needs of the slave owner. To acquaint students with strategies slaves utilized to gain freedom, i.e., purchase of their time, purchase of family members or self, escape or manumission. To demonstrate the earning potential of a typical 19th century blacksmith. To introduce documentation, written by slaves, describing the working conditions and life-styles of slaves.

Gateway Arch National Park

Lewis and Clark Traveling Trunk

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Learn about the Lewis and Clark voyage from the eyes of Patrick Gass, the longest living member of the expedition, in this interactive traveling trunk.

Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument

Be An Inspector

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

Our most popular activity sheet! Students will play the role as a detective who will uncover the process immigrants went through at Ellis Island. Join us on that voyage today!

Gateway Arch National Park

Heading West?

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

Imagine yourself as a settler in St. Louis getting ready to head west. What supplies would you buy? What trail would you take? Who would join you on your voyage?

Cabrillo National Monument

Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo Ranger Led Field Trip

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

A third through fifth grade program about Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo's voyage of discovery. Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo and his crew were the first Europeans to explore and chart the West Coast of the United States.

Gateway Arch National Park

Lewis and Clark

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

In this program, students learn about the Corps of Discovery's trip to the Pacific Coast from 1803 to 1806, which started and ended in St. Louis. Students also learn about the members of the expedition and the people they interacted with throughout the voyage.

The Penniman House: A Whaling Story

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

The house holds the Penniman family's written records and artifact collections, which provide glimpses of the places and people that the family visited on their whaling voyages. Theirs is a true life whaling story representative of hundreds of other whaling captains and their families that traveled the globe to pursue whale fishery.

National Park of American Samoa

I'm A Tree

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

Most of the natural vegetation of American Samoa (present before the arrival of Polynesians about 3000 years ago) fits into the category of tropical rainforest. Tropical rainforests are found throughout the world in areas of warm climates and sufficient to plentiful year-round rainfall. The Samoan tropical rainforest originally extended from just inland of the shore up to the summits of the highest mountains.