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Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Science on the Prairie

• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In these lesson plans, students will perform scientific research on the prairie to learn of the importance of grasshoppers, fire, and aquatic invertebrates are to the prairie

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Environmental Prairie Science

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

Students conduct a miniature scientific experiment and learn about prairie ecosystems through games and activities.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Researching Prairie Restoration

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

Looking for topics for mini-research projects? An NPS prairie restoration video is a great conversation starter for an opinion paper. Students will work in teams to research the benefits of restoring our endangered prairie ecosystem.

Badlands National Park

Prairie Animals and Habitats

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

Badlands National Park protects 244,000 acres of mixed-grass prairie habitat and the wild animals that live in it. Prairie vegetation is mostly grasses--find out why. Then take a look at some of the wildlife (including bison, pronghorn, prairie dogs, and black-footed ferrets) that have adaptations that allow them to thrive in the prairie environment. Students participating in the in-class program may see and touch animal pelts, complete a puzzle, or complete a craft.

Homestead National Historical Park

Prairie Life Traveling Trunk

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

The trunk includes curriculum materials, books, artifacts and photos that can be integrated into history, social studies, art, reading, and language arts curriculum. Additionally, the curriculum materials include student station sheets, so students can rotate stations without the teacher having to repeat instructions.

Homestead National Historical Park

Prairie Animals (K-2)

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

The trunk includes curriculum materials, tracks, scat, animal furs and animals skulls that can be integrated into science, art, reading, and language arts curriculum. Additionally, the curriculum materials include student station sheets, so students can rotate stations without the teacher having to repeat instructions.

Homestead National Historical Park

Prairie Animals (3-5)

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

The trunk includes curriculum materials, tracks, scat, animal furs and animals skulls that can be integrated into science, art, reading, and language arts curriculum. Additionally, the curriculum materials include student station sheets, so students can rotate stations without the teacher having to repeat instructions.

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

Tallgrass Prairie: A Multidisciplinary Curriculum

• Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Prepare students for a visit to the 81-acre tallgrass prairie at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site. Activities strenghten skills in observation, analysis, and interpretation in the field and in the classroom. Activities are written with middle school students in mind, but may be appropriate for other ages.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Field Trip: Prairie Biodiversity

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

Learn the importance of prairies and prairie life. A park ranger will guide students through a series of interactive presentations and activities. Students will learn about biodiversity within a prairie ecosystem.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Field Trip: Prairie Restoration

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

Learn how the Hidatsa tribe used the prairie during village life. Explore and participate in restoring the prairie back to its original state. Teacher can choose from a variety of interactive activities focused on the prairie ecosystem.

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

Investigating Tallgrass Prairie Plants

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

By growing and comparing plants, students discover how prairie plants differ from other plants and how prairie plants and the environment benefit from these differences.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Grass: The Essence of Cowpens

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

The goal of this field trip is to present to students the importance of native grasses and the grasslands that were the essence of the landscape at the site of the Battle of Cowpens.

The Freeman School: Building Prairie Communities

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

One community, one room. Discover the red-brick schoolhouse where a frontier town's children learned and its families gathered.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Hidatsa Tribe Use of Prairie Plants

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

Do your students need practice finding and utilizing information on a website? This lesson uses the Knife River Indian Villages NHS Park Stewards project on the nationally acclaimed iNaturalist website to accomplish this objective. Students will have fun exploring the site while learning how the Hidatsa and other Plains Indian tribes used the native prairie.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

What Does it Take to Restore a Prairie?

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

This distance learning opportunity describes the prairie restoration process. Ranger will walk students through what is a prairie ecosystem, why is it important, and what happened to it. Ranger will show what Knife River Indian Villages is doing to restore the native prairie on their property.

Flowering Plant Reproduction in the Tallgrass Prairie

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

Learn about the prairie at its best

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

FLAMBEAUX GLEAUX: THE NEW ORLEANS MARDI GRAS FLAMBEAUX STRIKE OF 1946

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

This lesson concerns a strike by FLAMBEAUX, men (generally African American) in New Orleans who carry large torches to light the parades. It concerns reasons a community might become militant and the role of solidarity in such struggles. It uses music created by the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park that is found on the cd Remembering 300- Arrowhead Jazz Band.

Badlands National Park

Bison Banquet: Food Chains and Food Webs of the Prairie

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

In this lesson students will students will identify the components of a prairie food chain and prairie food web. Students will be able to illustrate the transfer of energy in both a food chain and a food web. Students will also explore how environmental changes impact the food chain and food web.

Butterflies, Hummingbirds, and Bees Oh My! Pollinators on the Tallgrass Prairie

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

Learn about pollinators.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Flora on the Plains: Grasses, Trees, and Agriculture

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

Follow alongside a trading caravan with Josiah Gregg to observe how plant life contributed to and threatened survival in the southern Great Plains. Consider how human impact and responsible management of natural resources was necessary during the fur trade era just as it is today.