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Acadia National Park

A Day at Sand Beach

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

Story maps are virtual and visual way to teach about specific locations. Sand Beach is a great example of beach formation and processes. Use the story map to explore the phenomena of Sand Beach and learn about deposition, weathering, and erosion.

Acadia National Park

Self Guided Sand Beach Scavenger Hunt

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

Sand Beach is an interesting place even in the winter. This scavenger hunt includes family friendly activities that can guide adventures together.

Cape Lookout National Seashore

Ribbon of Sand

• Type: Media for Loan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This beautifully photographed film features an exploration of the entire coastal ecosystem, from the vast coastal plain to the shallow estuaries, from the shifting sands of the barrier islands to the underwater edge of the continental shelf.

Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve

Sand Filters

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

This activity will help students see the importance of sand in water filtration and understand how aquifers are recharged.

Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve

Magnetic Sand?

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

Students will understand that sand is made up of different minerals-one being magnetite, a compound containing iron.

Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve

Sand Density

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

This activity, which uses sand, helps students will understand material density as it relates to water and sedimentary rocks.

Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve

Castles in the Sand

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

Through this field trip, students will learn about the cohesive force of water tension and the adhesive force of capillary action.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Distanced and Displaced Lesson Plan

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

This 8th grade lesson compares political maps of Native American homelands before and after westward expansion. It traces the cause factors leading to the cession of original Cheyenne and Arapaho lands prior to relocation in Oklahoma.

Cumberland Island National Seashore

Beach Survey

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

Every year approximately 14 billion pounds of trash are dumped into the ocean. This trash can create problems for people and wildlife. In this lesson, you can help your students better understand this important issue.

Assateague Island National Seashore

Beach Walk

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

Assateague is moving! Toes in the water, sand in their hands, and wind in their hair; students will explore the processes of barrier island ecology. Students will also discover the necessary adaptations required to survive in this ever-changing environment.

Indiana Dunes National Park

West Beach Walk

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

Explore the dunes and experience the forces of nature that created them. Observe water, wind and waves in action and learn how they work together to form mountains of sand. Program availability: spring, summer, fall. Age group: Preschool - 3rd grade. Location: West Beach. Length: 1.0 - 1.5 hours.

Death Valley National Park

Sand Dunes Post Trip Activity

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

Students will recall factual information, as well as personal experiences to create a diorama or visitor pamphlet of the Mesquite Sand Dunes. Students will participate in a science sort and a brainstorming session of observations they made while on their field trip to the sand dunes.

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

LESSON 2 - REMEMBERING SAN MALÓ

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

In the previous lesson students were introduced to the concept of Creolization, to the historical figure of San Maló as presented in the song, and to Creole/Zydeco music. In this lesson students will focus on gaining greater historical knowledge of Juan San Maló. This will be done through a deep reading of an adapted version of a thesis paper on San Maló by Erin Elizabeth Voisin.

Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve

What's Great About Great Sand Dunes

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

From supervolcanoes to endemic insects to archaic people, the 'greatness' of Great Sand Dunes amazes even the most seasoned visitors. Hands-on activities and short walks appropriate for all ages and abilities. Inquire at the Visitor Center (719-378-6395) about the availability of Dunes wheelchairs if appropriate.

Cape Cod National Seashore

Beaches in Motion - Coastal Vulnerability

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

This Earth Science lesson includes classroom materials, field trip activities and a post assessment activity. The classroom lessons include Powerpoints, readings and activities to increase understanding of coastal processes. The beach activities offer place –based learning to observe and measure conditions to evaluate the vulnerability of a beach to erosion. The post assessment activity requires students to use a model to demonstrate a beaches response to different climate

Beach Debris Design Challenge

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

Find out about watersheds and how to protect them.

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

LESSON 1 - SAN MALÓ AND INTRODUCTION TO UNIT

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

This lesson is an introduction to the book Le Ker Creole. Students will learn about the language of Kréyol, and about Creole culture and music, with a focus on the folk hero Juan San Maló. They will hear a song in Kréyol about San Maló and examine the lyrics to become familiar with the historic figure upon which the folk hero is based.

San Antonio Missions: Spanish Influence in Texas

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

Most Americans know the clarion call "Remember the Alamo!" and have a hazy recollection that the "fort" originally had been built as a Spanish mission. What is less well known outside the Southwest is that the Mission San Antonio de Valero–the Alamo–was only one of a chain of missions along the San Antonio River. Established between 1718 and 1731, these missions were built not only to spread the faith of the conquistadors, but also to serve multiple foreign policy objectives for the Spanish.

The Forts of Old San Juan: Guardians of the Caribbean

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

Now one of the most beautiful spots in Puerto Rico, the battlements illustrate the remarkable work of Spanish military engineers and recall more than 400 years of history in the Americas.

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

LESSON 6 - LEARNING KRÉYOL (CREOLE) THROUGH SAN MALÓ

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

Students will hear the song SAN MALÓ, sung by Kréyol speaker Sunpie Barnes. Sunpie has studied both Louisiana and Haitian Kréyol for over thirty years, so the accent is authentic. Students will review phrases learned in the previous HEY NOM lesson, and then use the lyrics of SAN MALÓ to learn additional phrases.