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Showing 1,773 results for Social Change ...
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students learn the difference between physical and chemical changes in matter, and go for a hike to observe both in nature. At stations, students explore how rocks are weathered by both physical and chemical changes. Students then observe the mechanisms scientists use to measure ozone in the lower atmosphere and act out the chemical changes that destroy ozone in the upper atmosphere.
Glacier National Park
Always Changing
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Working in three teams, students will use reference material to create and present a play showing 100 years of change for each forest type.
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
So You Wanna Be a Paleontologist?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will become familiarized with fossils that have been uncovered in Florissant Fossil Beds from the Eocene and Quaternary. They will select a certain extinct species and make a sketch on a Popsicle stick canvas. After shuffling their Popsicle stick fossil, they will then hide the sticks around a room and have someone else find and "excavate" the Popsicle stick fossil and attempt to put it back together. Best done with a partner to exchange fossils to find and put together.
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
So You Wanna Be a Paleobotanist?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will re-create scientific studies done by paleobotanists analyzing data from fossil plants found at Florissant Fossil Beds to draw conclusions about the paleoclimate 34 million years ago. In this activity, students will identify fossil plant species by their leaves, review data on the growing conditions of their nearest modern plant relatives, and compare as many species as possible to determine the range of temperature and precipitation that the fossil plant community can live in.
Alaska Public Lands
Climate Change Kit
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This kit provides students with the chance to learn more about climate change and renewable energy through activities and demonstrations. Packed with curriculum and starter kits your students will have a blast learning together.
Yellowstone National Park
Wolverines and Climate Change
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will demonstrate an understanding of specific adaptations that have prepared the pika and wolverine to survive in cool climates with harsh winter conditions. Students will additionally demonstrate an understanding of timescales and evolution, and how due to the increased speed of global temperature rise, climate change can have negative effects on these mammals despite their ability to adapt.
Glacier National Park
Changes at Log City
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to reproduce images of the happenings in a rotting log, and show how it will change over time.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
A Map Changed by Destiny
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students become characters on a map of the western US in the 1840s as Fort Scott soldiers help to bring about rapid westward expansion
National Park of American Samoa
Climate Change: A Warming Planet
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Our world is always changing. Look out your window long enough and you might see the weather change. Look even longer, and you'll see the seasons change. The Earth's climate is changing, too, but in ways that you can't easily see. Round-n-round the Earth goes, where change may happen nobody knows! This program will help students understand the changes occurring in the Earth’s climate, its impact on local ecosystems and help them discover ways to help.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Define the mission of the National Park Service. Name three national park areas and their significant features. Explain how Shenandoah protects plants and animals, specifically the Shenandoah salamander. Identify three environmental/human influences that can impact the ecosystem of the Shenandoah salamander. Describe potential consequences to the Shenandoah salamander's survival. Explain three ways that individuals can help reduce the impact of human-accelerated climate change.
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park
Changes in the Landscape: Weathering and Erosion
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The land that Lincoln once walked and played is everchanging. Discover evidence of weathering and erosion that has changed the landscape at Knob Creek. Meets Kentucky 4th grade science standards. This lesson was created by Kentucky teachers as a part of the History and Science Explore Project.
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
Climate Change Scavenger Hunt
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson plan is park specific for Florissant Fossil Beds NM, but can be adjusted. This lesson plan is design to send the students/participants on a hunt to find the ways we are trying to reduce our carbon footprint around the monument.
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
Climate Change & Bird Range
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Tule Springs Expedition Research Learning Center partners with our local Audubon Society Chapter to participate in the Climate Watch bird survey citizen science project. Citizen scientists across North America report the data they collected during these surveys to help document how bird species are responding to climate change and shifting their ranges. This activity explores how different climate change scenarios may affect bird populations locally. Author: Jake Johnson & Lauren Parry
Voyageurs National Park
Exploring Seasonal Changes with Phenology
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn about Phenology and track seasonal changes!
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
Lesson 2 - THE SOCIAL CATEGORIES OF RACE
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
One of the main conversations in Talk That Music Talk is around race and music. This lesson is designed to be able to prepare students to participate in the experiences that the activists and musicians share with them. Physical anthropologist Ashley Montague called race “man’s most dangerous myth.”
President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site
So you want to be an American President
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson is opened with a discussion, followed by the reading of Judith St. George and David Small's book, "So you want to be President", then progress into assignments, presentations, gallery walk and awards as applicable to the teacher.
Niobrara National Scenic River
Ever-Changing Currents Mini-Lesson
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
10 minutes classroom time https://youtu.be/vHwgJKtEuxs Students will discover what makes the Niobrara National Scenic River unique and examine a river from their own life following the model of Langston Hughes, a 20th century poet, and create a river poem themselves.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Climate Change at Sleeping Bear Dunes
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The Climate Change program will introduce your students to the ways in which climate change affects the Great Lakes and Sleeping Bear Dunes and what they can do to make positive changes in their communities.
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Understanding the effects of climate change in the past, present, and future. Learn how desert wetlands evolved over time.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The lesson can be used in units on the history of westward movement or multiculturalism in America. The lesson can help students understand how Americans modified the Californio building style, at the same time adopting aspects of that style and way of life.