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Gateway Arch National Park

MO Outdoor Rangers

• Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Splash your way through a week of water fun. Paddle your way through our great Missouri waterways, build a creek dam and explore nature’s water creatures, and catch a big one fishing the shores of Missouri’s parks and public lands.

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

National Park Legacy - Santa Monica Mountain Lions Grades 9 - 12

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

The Santa Monica Mountains Recreation Area is the world’s largest urban park with 153,075 acres and 5 area codes and 26 zip codes surrounding the park. It was established as a National Park Service Recreation Area in 1978 but Santa Monica Mountains NRA did not own any public land until 1980. The Recreation Area is surrounded by many neighborhoods, resulting in many challenges for rangers and wildlife, including the effects of rodenticide.

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

National Parks: Where Plants Hold a Place of Honor! Grades 2-3

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

This lesson plan, designed for grades 2 and 3 uses common core and ngss standards to teach students that some National Parks were established to protect specific plant species. In doing so, students will learn the importance of plants within their ecosystems.

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

National Park Legacy - Battle the Bully Plants and Conserve Water! Grades 5 - 6

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

SMMNRA Nature Neighbor Project suggests native plant options for landscapes near natural areas. Native plants can generally resist weather challenges, require no fertilizer or pesticide and attract wildlife. Most importantly, plants native to Southern California are adapted to drought conditions and water is California’s most prized natural resource.

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

National Park Labs: Studies of Wildland Fire Ecology

• Type: Science Labs
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

National Park Labs: Studies of Wildland Fire Ecology curriculum is progressive and builds on the knowledge of each prior lesson. Teacher materials include guidelines that provide the concept, objective, method, materials, duration, procedures for conducting lessons, student handouts, and student investigation worksheets.

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

National Park Legacy - Coyotes in our Cities! Grades 3 - 4

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

The Nature Neighbor Project prioritizes reducing conflicts between humans and wildlife so that they can coexist and share available habitat. Ecologists have learned that coyotes are opportunistic eaters, and they will scavenge through trash as well as feed on traditional foods such as rodents, birds, insects, and grass. Coyote and human conflicts can often be eliminated when human-related food is not available.

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

National Parks Legacy: Nature and Culture...NPS Protects Both! Grades Pre K-1

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

The National Park Legacy aims to introduce students to the work of the National Park Service. This lesson describes the kind of features preserved by the park service, including natural, cultural, and historical resources.

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

National Park Legacy - Light Right at Night! Grades 7 - 8

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

The night skies division of the National Park Service promotes 6 practices that everyone can adopt and make a difference in reducing light pollution: light only where needed, light only when needed, use less light, use warm colored light, use energy efficient lamps, shield and direct lights downward.

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

National Park Legacy - Wildlife in Cities Grades K - 2

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

Coexisting with wildlife requires that actions be taken to reduce conflicts and minimize impacts from human activity so that a healthy appreciation of wildlife can be fostered. Specifically addressed in this lesson are efforts SMMNRA is making to encourage residents to clean up unintentional food resources such as pet food, and secure trash cans so that unwanted wildlife do not seek food on personal property.

Shenandoah National Park

The Spirit of the Mountain

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This interactive program connects the social, economic, geographic, and political history of the 1920s and 1930s with the establishment of Shenandoah National Park and the people whose lives were impacted.

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.

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

Mountain Building

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

Plate tectonics allows for the development of mountains and valleys. Students will use a towel and index card "blocks" to show how mountains and valleys form using compressional and extensional forces.

Glacier National Park

Carving Mountains

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

Through individual and group research, students create a clay model of a mountain range with glacial features labelled.

Grand Teton National Park

Mountain Weather

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

Mountain weather is a force that climbers and outdoor enthusiasts need to understand and predict in order to plan safely and make good decisions in the backcountry. Use this lesson to help students understand weather patterns and processes and learn field prediction.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Mountain Life

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

Shenandoah National Park

Life at Lewis Mountain

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This interactive program takes students through the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and the struggle to make all of Shenandoah National Park for all people.

Kings Mountain National Military Park

The Battle of Kings Mountain

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

The Battle of Kings Mountain (October 7, 1780) was one of the most dramatic and hotly contested battles of the Revolutionary War. On an isolated ridge top in the Carolina backcountry, nearly 1000 American Patriots surrounded and overwhelmed an approximately equal number of American Loyalists.

Glacier National Park

Formation of Mountains and Faults

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

Stations are set up around the classroom for teacher to demonstrate and then for students to rotate through in small groups. Video and photos are available of mountains in Glacier NP for students to look at from the Student Resource Guide CD or other source.

Gateway Arch National Park

Mountain Man Traveling Trunk

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

In this traveling trunk, students will learn about Mountain Man John Colter and his travels through what is today Yellowstone National Park in the early 1800s.

Kings Mountain National Military Park

Tactics in the Battle of Kings Mountain

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

*How did the Kings Mountain area terrain and settlements effect the tactics in the Battle of Kings Mountain? *How were the tactics used at the Battle of Kings Mountain similar and different than other battles in the American Revolution? *How were the tactics used by loyalists and patriots at the Battle of Kings Mountain similar and different?