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Gateway Arch National Park
Gold Miners Traveling Trunk
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this traveling trunk, students will learn about the California gold rush of the 1840s and discuss the reasons settlers often risked it all to move West.
Death Valley National Park
Mining Unit: It's Mining Time
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson is part of a cross-curricular mining unit focused on the impacts of miners on the Death Valley community and environment. This is the third lesson in the unit which provides students opportunities to explore the true meaning of a boom and bust mining operation. Students will practice basic math operations while examining a Death Valley mining timeline.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Rushmore Rocks!
- Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Through this interactive and hands-on lesson, your students will learn about the three rock types and how they are formed. In small groups they will also use evidence to identify three types of rocks and record their observations.
- Type: Science Labs
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this science lab, students learn about the properties of lava by experimenting with liquids having varying gas contents and viscosities.
Grand Teton National Park
Rock the Tetons
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students learn about geology in simple, tangible ways while witnessing first hand versions of mountain building and erosion.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students role-play a guided imagery story of the rock cycle
Glacier National Park
Rock Ranking
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will sort rocks in various ways from a river gravel bar
Arches National Park
Moving Rocks
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students explore how weathering and erosion form the landforms seen at Arches National Park.
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
Rock Identification
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Rock Cycke
Olympic National Park
Geology pt 1: Rockity Rock Rock
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to identify the three basic types of rocks (Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic) and basic characteristics of each.
Hot Springs National Park
A Journey of Rocks and Water
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will create an understanding of the hydrogeological system of Hot Springs through observations of notable rock formations and examinations of the permeability of groundwater through certain rock types. Program designed for 7th grade and high school Earth Science courses.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students are introduced to the study of geology. They will learn about what is hidden beneath the surface of the Earth and how the geology of the Earth gives shape to the landscape. They will learn about the theory of plate tectonics and how the movement of these plates affects the world around us.
Acadia National Park
Acadia Rock Identification
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will make observations of rocks along the shore of Mount Desert Island (site to be determined by teacher). Students will categorize rocks, and will use resources to identify types of rocks. Students will create a journal entry with drawing and description so work can be continued in the classroom without the rock sample.
Grand Canyon National Park
Current Events – Uranium Mining
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
How do we work together to find sustainable solutions to everyday problems? Uranium mining near the Grand Canyon is a controversial subject. This lesson takes shape in the form of a townhall style debate.
Acadia National Park
Acadia Rocks Story Map
- Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Story maps are visual explorations of challenging concepts. Explore the coast of Acadia National Park with a focus on the geologic processes. Learn the rock types, observe erosion and weathering in progress, and discover the wonders of Acadia's Great Head trail.
Rocky Mountain National Park
Every Rock Has a Story
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Don't take these rocks for granite! Students will become geologists who learn how to describe and identify rocks by their family-sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic. Students will apply their knowledge to uncover the geologic story of Rocky Mountain National Park.
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Geology Lesson 2. Global building blocks
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Rocks and minerals are the building blocks of the Earth Crust. Learning how to identify the main types of rocks and their minerals will help students understand the geology of the Guadalupes and how a beautiful reef can transform into a mountain.
Scotts Bluff National Monument
Geology Rocks: The Geology of Scotts Bluff
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Learn more about the geologic forces that have shaped, and continue to shape, Scotts Bluff.
Olympic National Park
Geology pt 2: Rock Sorting
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to identify the three basic types of rocks (Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic) and sort samples of rocks into the three types?
Prince William Forest Park
Hike to the Cabin Branch Pyrite Mine
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn the history of the park's iron pyrite mine on this moderate, two mile hike that lasts around two hours. Rangers will hike with students to the old mine site, and give students the opportunity to learn about the park's mine reclamation efforts, stroll along a boardwalk, and see several existing foundations and capped off mine shafts.