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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.

Olympic National Park

Restoring the Elwha River

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

This activity focuses on the plans to remove the dams, restore the river, and return salmon to the Elwha River watershed. Students will complete reflection journal entries on dam removal and river restoration.

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.

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.

Kenai Fjords National Park

The Scientific Method

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

Students will conduct a basic soil science experiment and re-familiarize themselves with the scientific method.

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha (Aspect and Soil Moisture)

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

What combination of factors both natural and man made is necessary for healthy river restoration and how does this enhance the sustainability of natural and human communities?

Cowpens National Battlefield

Plant Life-Native and Invasive

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

The students will study the native and invasive species of plants at the Cowpens battlefield and will document and briefly explain the efforts of the part system to restore the battlefield to its original state,

William Howard Taft National Historic Site

The Measure of a Man or a Woman

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

This lesson will help students to re-live the early years of William Howard Taft and his family as well as, explore the Taft family's values practiced in their household.

Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site

What is Preservation?: 4th – 5th grade

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

What is the difference between preservation and restoration? How do people help preserve the past in their daily lives? Students will learn about the concept of “preservation” and the careers that work in preservation.

The Old Courthouse in St. Louis: Yesterday and Today

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

Learn how three buildings restored and maintained by the U.S. General Services Administration illustrate the important role the federal government played and continues to play in communities across the country.

To Go or Not To Go (Lesson One in Elwha Unit)

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

In this lesson, students will answer the following essential question: What combination of factors, both natural and manmade, is necessary for healthy river restoration and how does this enhance the sustainability of natural and human communities?

Run for Your Lives! The Johnstown Flood of 1889

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

Determine how environmental management, technology, and the actions of 19th-century industrialists contributed to a disaster in Pennsylvania that shocked the nation. Also understand why a community spent funds to restore a railway built to save lives.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Distance Learning: A Beneficial Fire

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

This distance learning opportunity explores prescribed fires. Ranger will walk students through the benefits of a prescribed fire, particularly within the prairie restoration process. Students will learn about equipment, personal protective equipment, and possible NPS careers in wildland fire management.

Haleakalā National Park

Maui's Hawaiian Honeycreepers and Adaptive Radiation

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

A green and yellow parrot-billed bird called the Kiwikiu rests on a branch in an unknown location on Maui.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Economy and Trade: Pre 1845

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

In Economy and Trade: Pre 1845, students will learn about trade relations between tribes prior to European contact and how their experience prepared them for success in dealing with explorers and traders after European contact by re-enacting trading as it was practiced at Knife River Villages.

Gateway Arch National Park

Law Merit Badge

• Type: Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Does protecting the law involve bravery? Does telling the truth equal courage? Investigate the judicial system and its important role in our society. Scouts re-enact a historic trial and debate contemporary issues. An attorney and a National Park Service Law Enforcement Ranger will discuss their roles and responsibilities in society.

Mammoth Cave National Park

Shapes Of The Season

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

This lesson plan is from "Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3", which comprises ten lessons. This is lesson 4 of that set. Students collect and classify leaves. This art project then re-creates their favorite leaf shape in the colors of fall - ready to hang in the window as a sun-catcher.

Growing into Public Service: William Howard Taft's Boyhood Home

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

Visit the home of the only man to serve the country both as president and chief justice, and meet the rest of his public service-oriented family.

Attu: North American Battleground of World War II

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

Learn about America's role in World War II and how US troops ousted the Japanese from Attu Island to gain control of the rest of the Aleutians.

Yellowstone National Park

How Geysers Erupt

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

Geysers exist in only a few places on Planet Earth. In Yellowstone there are more geysers than the rest of the planet combined. Students learn about the unique conditions that allow geysers to erupt.