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Glacier National Park

Surviving in the Wild

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

Students role play a day in the life of a pet animal and then sort pictures of a variety of animals into “wild” or “domestic” categories with the option of making collages of each category. They will think about how “wild” animals are different from domestic animals and why wild animals need “wild” places to live.

Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial

Pioneer Survival

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

During the game “Oh No! Sickness!” students will collect the things the Lincoln family needed to survive. They will learn that pioneers who got sick didn’t have the medicines we have today to help them get better.

John Day Fossil Beds National Monument

Survival of the Fittest

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

Create your own new kind of animal and learn why some animals thrive in certain environments and not others.

Traits & Survival

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

In the classroom students learn about inherited traits. In the field, students examine the traits of juniper trees and play a game to model how the environment can act on traits and affect how trees appear. Students also examine kit fox traits and play a game to discover what happens when a trait provides an advantage for survival.

Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site

Skills and Survival

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

By 1900, the cowboy’s world was changing. Gone were the days of trailing cattle as homesteaders claimed the vast public lands. Cowboys were confined to fenced-in ranches, where they were expected to do additional tasks to keep the ranch going. This lesson invites students to explore how cowboys used Grant-Kohrs Ranch’s repair shop to learn new skills and how learning helped them overcome change.

Tuzigoot National Monument

Trading to Survive at Tuzigoot

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

What goods were traded and exchanged by Native American peoples near Casa Grande and Tuzigoot? What kind of economy existed in this region before money? How did people work and trade in order to survive?

Lake Clark National Park & Preserve

Brown Bear Survival Game

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

In this lesson, students play a Brown Bear Survival board game, in which they will learn about resource availability and the movement of brown bears. This game and all of the bears in the game are based on actual research conducted by park biologists in Lake Clark National Park.

Petroglyph National Monument

What It Takes to Survive: Then and Now

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

This lesson was designed to get students thinking about ancient Native culture-how it survived, and how it compares to the current culture today in New Mexico.

Shenandoah National Park

3rd Grade | Adaptations for Survival

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

Living things use adaptations to respond to life needs for survival. These adaptations may be behavioral or physical in nature. Students will investigate adaptations of plants and animals living in Shenandoah National Park using observation, cooperation, discovery, and participation skills.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

Survival of the Fittest (3rd Grade)

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

Standing 400 feet above the Kīlauea Iki crater down to the depths of a 550 year old lava tube, students explore and understand the ecosystem of Hawaii's natural rainforest. Through this field trip, they will understand how these plants and animals made their way over vast oceans, and how they began to adapt to elements and terrain presented to them upon arrival. The students will begin to gain a deeper sense of appreciation for the environment in which they live.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

K-1st Grade: Dunes Survival

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

Students will learn that all living things need food, water, shelter, air and space to survive. They will discover that there are special plants and animals that live in the dunes that use their external parts to get what they need to survive. Students will understand that national parks like Sleeping Bear take care of the places where plants and animals get what they need to survive.

Olympic National Park

What Do Salmon Need To Survive?

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

Students will be able to determine if salmon raised at school will survive in a local water source by testing conditions.

Shenandoah National Park

3rd Grade | Virtual Adaptations for Survival

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Living things use adaptations to respond to life needs for survival. These adaptations may be behavioral or physical in nature. Students will virtually investigate adaptations of plants and animals living in Shenandoah National Park using observation, discovery, and participation skills. 60 minutes

Yellowstone National Park

Winter Survival Adaptations: Caching Food

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

Students cache their own "food" to learn about the different strategies used by two different Yellowstone animals and how this helps them survive winter.

Zion National Park

Genetics and Adaptations: Understanding Inherited Traits and Survival

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

The students will focus on and discover how different plants living in Zion National Park use their inheritable traits to adapt to their environment. Students will model plant genetics using different colored beans to make combinations of alleles, representing the hybridization of prickly pear cacti in Zion National Park.

Zion National Park

Desert Plant Adaptations: Structures that Support Survival

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

Zion’s Desert Plants introduction video. A ‘design a desert plant’ activity where students will draw and present a plant that they created and the adaptations they chose to help it survive.

Fort Scott National Historic Site

Supplies, Survival, and Success: Civil War Quartermaster

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In our modern world, many of us have come to rely on transportation systems and the operation of stores and warehouses in order to provide us with food, clothing, and other essentials for survival. During the Civil War, Fort Scott played a similar role as a supply depot that was critical to the survival and success of Union soldiers in the area.

Fort Scott National Historic Site

(1860s) Supplies, Survival and Success: Civil War Quartermaster

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

During this program, students will have the opportunity to gain insight and appreciation of the critical role of supply functions in both historic and modern times.

Everglades National Park

“Survival: Risky Business” Wildlife 4-6 Grade

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

Students will receive an endangered or extinct mystery animal card taped to their backs. They must use critical thinking skills to ask the right questions and discover the identity of their mystery animal. They will discuss what it means to be extinct or endangered and ways they can help those animals that are threatened with extinction.

Timpanogos Cave National Monument

Deep Down Showdown

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Which traits are best for surviving caves? Students will discuss how traits change throughout an organism's life cycle and impact survival. They will also participate in the "Deep Down Showdown" by voting for the animal that can best survive in a cave!