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Mississippian Coiled Pottery Making

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

Coiled pot

Fort Larned National Historic Site

No Pot of Gold

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

Journey downt he Santa Fe Trail with seven-year-old Marion Sloan as she, her mother and her brother head to California.

Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve

Timucua Pottery

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

Students will create their own pottery using flour, salt, water, and cream of tartar, and will decorate their pottery with natural materials.

Pottery of the Ancestral Pueblo

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

Essential question: How did the ancestral Pueblos make their pottery? What did they use to paint their pottery, and how did they choose their designs? Students will be able to: Identify the stylistic attributes of Acoma, Jemez, San Ildefonso, and Santa Clara pottery and distinguish between the traditional Acoma, Jemez, San Ildefonso, and Santa Clara pottery design motifs and forms. Recognize and create similar objects and stylistic motifs

Glacier National Park

Making the Mountains

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

Glacier’s mountainous landscape tells the tale of the powerful geologic forces that have shaped the land over time. In this program, students will investigate the many geologic forces that have sculpted the mountains of Glacier by learning about the four main stages of the park’s geologic formations; silt, tilt, slide, and glide. Through hands-on activities and discussion, students will become immersed in the geologic story of Glacier National Park.

Yellowstone National Park

Making Tracks

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will compare the tracks of grizzly bears, wolves and humans and make observations about their similarities and differences.

Making a Trace Fossil

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

Students get the opportunity to understand the difference between a trace fossil and impressions made in sediment through weathering.

Fossil Butte National Monument

Making a Fossil Game

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

Students will play a game where a volunteer plays a fish that sinks to the bottom of the lake after death. The remaining students will slowly cover the volunteer with their jackets, showing how over time organisms are covered with sediment and slowly become a fossil.

Timpanogos Cave National Monument

How to Make a Cave

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

Just the power of weathering, erosion, and deposition is enough to make a cave! Students will explore a virtual scan of Timpanogos Cave to discover evidence of these concepts.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Arts, Crafts, Clothing and Appearance: Flint, Pottery, Painting

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

Hidatsas and Mandans made tools, housewares, clothing, toys, and musical instruments from things that were available nearby or sometimes farther off if the material was important in the production of the item. In this lesson, students will tell a story by designing a buffalo robe like people did during Knife River Village days and they will discuss and portray how people might describe the life-ways of today one hundred years from the present using their media of choice.

Cumberland Island National Seashore

Make Your Own Barometer

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will learn about the scientific instrument called a barometer. They will be able to create their own barometer at home and record atmospheric pressure data.

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Make Your Own Astrolabe

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

Students build their own astrolabe to examine stars and planets in the night sky and observe relative movement using basic observations and geometry.

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

Make Your Own Fossils

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

Many of the fossils found in the paper shales of the Florissant Formation formed through a process called carbonization. Students will get the chance to make compressions of plants in this activity and may use paint to mimic the carbonization process.

Yellowstone National Park

Make Your Own Caldera

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Create your own caldera to see what the Yellowstone Caldera might have looked like after the eruption.

Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park

Make Your Own Monument!

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

Students will be able to interpret and develop visual symbols to celebrate personal and public achievements.

Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve

Making Corn Husk Dolls

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will learn how to make a corn husk doll, and then compare the toys they have with toys that children of the 19th century played with (and often made) as a daily life comparison. Corn was grown at Kingsley Plantation, and while it was used for food, other parts of the plant were useful too. Children back then would have had as much fun using their imaginations to make their toys as they did when playing with them!

Talkin’ Trash: Make a Litter Difference

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

Students will participate in a comprehensive analysis of trash present in a National Park.During their field study, students will collect, sort, and weigh all trash they have collected as a group.

Acadia National Park

Make your own Raccoon Mask

• Type: Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

All animals use different adaptations to survive in the world around them. Raccoons use their dexterous hands and masked faces to find food. This craft allows kids to make their own raccoon mask to wear!

Alaska Public Lands

Fairbanks History Walk: What makes a community?

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

In this field trip, participants will walk along the Chena River from the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitor Center to Clay Street Cemetary. Participants will learn about the history of Fairbanks and discuss what and who makes a community.

Grand Canyon National Park

Making Sense of Our World: Upper Elementary

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

Guided by our senses, students explore Grand Canyon to look for examples of adaptations and interactions of plants and animals. Using current park science, students investigate the interdependency of living organisms in ecosystems. Arizona Science Standards: 3.L1U1.5