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Haleakalā National Park
Food, Water, Shelter, Space
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to: 1. Demonstrate an understanding that a habitat is a home, and native habitats are the best and only home for native species. 2. Recognize that some plants and animals have specific needs and live in special homes that give them what they need.
National Park of American Samoa
Everybody Needs A Home
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
The main purpose of this activity is for students to generalize that animals need a home. Homes are not just houses. A house may be considered shelter. People build houses, apartments, trailers, houseboats, and other kinds of shelter in which to live. Animals also need some kind of shelter. The shelter might be underground, in a bush, in the bark of a tree, or under some rocks.
Fort Larned National Historic Site
Letters From Sarah
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Disappointed that she can't go on a trip with her father down the Santa Fe Trail, Sarah "joins" the journey through letters she trades with him along the way.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
NPS Employee talking to a group of children in Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. She wears the 1962 women's uniform with badge and pill box hat. She is not wearing the uniform coat. NPS History Collection photo by M. Woodbridge Williams.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site
Political Parenthood: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Remembers
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy possessed an acumen for people and the world which she utilized throughout her life. She fostered this passion devotedly in her children, including future president John F. Kennedy. In this lesson, students read her recollections of parenthood, hear her tour of the family home, and compare and contrast her to her husband, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. Students will learn how she shaped her son’s image and examine how historians form multidimensional views of historical figures.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
The Center of The Rebellion: The Elizabeth Cady Stanton House
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her growing family lived in Seneca Falls from 1847 to 1862. During that time Stanton helped organize the 1848 First Woman’s Rights Convention and launched the reform movement for women’s rights to which she dedicated the rest of her life. She called her home on Washington Street in Seneca Falls, "The Center of the Rebellion."
Fort Larned National Historic Site
No Pot of Gold
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Journey downt he Santa Fe Trail with seven-year-old Marion Sloan as she, her mother and her brother head to California.
Glacier National Park
What's That Habitat
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students identify their own basic needs for food, water shelter and space in a suitable arrangement and generalize that wildlife and people have similar basic needs.
White Sands National Park
Teacher Resource Bags
- Type: Media for Loan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Teacher Resource Bag is to be used while hiking either the Dune Life Nature Trail (or the Boardwalk if the Dune Life Nature Trail is closed) with students. The Dune Life Nature Trail is a one mile loop trail in the monument that features "Katy the Kit Fox" and all the parts of her life: food, shelter, water, avoiding predators, and what she does to play. This trail is a favorite with kids and adults alike!
Acadia National Park
Habitat Scavenger Hunt
- Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Walk around a safe outside space with adult supervision and make a mark every time you see an example of food, water, shelter, and space. These are what animals need in their habitats to survive. You can write in a little dot, a checkmark, or you can even draw a little picture. Hint: A shelter could be a nest or a house, but remember it could also be the area underneath a log! Try with a partner and compare what you find!
Statue Of Liberty National Monument
Liberty Island Grounds: Self-Guided Tour
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
As you approach the Statue of Liberty in beautiful New York Harbor, think about how the statue is viewed today compared to 100 years ago. Think about all the different ways and places that you have seen the Statue of Liberty displayed. How is she percieved? What symbols make up her design and how does that affect how she is viewed? Another line of questioning could be a consideration of the statue’s enormous scale.
Badlands National Park
Kylie's Fossil Find
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
In May 2010, a seven-year old girl named Kylie found a fossil near the visitor center at Badlands National Park. She did the right thing. She reported her find to rangers. It turned out to be a rare and well-preserved saber tooth cat fossil. This nonfiction story will help students understand the science of paleontology and the importance of protecting our natural resources and identify with the real-life story of another young student.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
A black and white photograph featuring a woman smiling as she looks at a video call with a baby held up to the screen on the other end. The photograph was taken in 1964, this is an example of early video call technology.
Fort Larned National Historic Site
Dwellings of Fort Larned: An Earthy Experience
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Fort Larned was established on the Santa Fe Trail in 1859. The soldiers built crude dugouts, sod and adobe shelters, and a picket stockade fencing for the animals. Students will explore the construction and the living conditions of the fort dwellings.
Rocky Mountain National Park
Sense-a-tional Rocky
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Journey alongside Kaylee the Coyote as she explores Rocky Mountain National Park with her senses and invites YOU to do the same in your own classroom and backyard! This engaging program features interactive games and songs.
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park
Every Decision Matters
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Stay or go? Obey or resist? For slaves, every choice had life-altering impacts. When choosing to seek her own freedom, Harriet Tubman risked her life and health and left behind the only community she had ever known. To stay meant she risked sale and continued to live in the limited and brutal conditions of slavery. To return so her loved ones could experience freedom risked a return to slavery but offered new life. What factored into a slave's choices?
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park
Prized Possession: Escaping on the Underground Railroad Pre-Visit Activity
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
15 years before slavery was abolished in the United States and a little more than 100 miles from the safety of Pennsylvania, Harriet Tubman operated on the edge of freedom. Born in Dorchester County, Maryland, in 1822, Tubman emancipated herself from slavery in 1849 at age 27. She earned the nickname “Moses” for risking her own life about 13 times to guide more than 70 people—many of them family and friends she had left behind—from lives in slavery to new lives in freedom.
Haleakalā National Park
Habitat Unit Field Trip
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
A habitat or home is not only important to people but plants and animals need them to survive. A habitat of native trees like ʻōhiʻa, amaʻu ferns, and the shrub plant kūpaoa provide food, water, space, and shelter for many native species.
Everglades National Park
"Go Back Home" Don't Let It Loose : 5-8th Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The natural food chain within a habitat is finely tuned. For any species to survive within a habitat four components are needed: food, water, shelter, and space. Exotic species can take these components away from native species.
Statue Of Liberty National Monument
Statue of Liberty Teacher's Guide to Education Programs: Grades 3 and 4
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will learn the meaning behind Emma Lazarus’s poem The New Colossus and how it added a new dimension to the Statue of Liberty’s symbolism. After your visit to Liberty Island, students will write and illustrate a poem about the Statue of Liberty and what she stands for today.