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Showing 20 results for Texas tortoise ...
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
What would you do if you found a Texas tortoise in the middle of the road? Or if your friend broke the law? In this lesson, students discuss their own values and ethics as well as the importance of respecting the values of others. Next, students learn about laws protecting the state-threatened Texas tortoise. Afterwards, they discuss how their values influence their behavior in various situations.
Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park
Frontier Life in the Texas Hill Country
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Lyndon B. Johnson NHP is an ideal location for students of all ages to explore President Johnson's life story and legacy. Join us from home or your classroom to learn about life in the Texas frontier when President Johnson's ancestors settled in the Texas Hill Country in the late 1860s!
Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park
Frontier Life in the Texas Hill Country
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
What was it like to live in the Texas frontier in the 1860s? Learn about the settlement history of the Texas Hill Country and how it impacted different communities and the local natural environment.
- 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.
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
TX Tortoise Coloring Page
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Simple, fun coloring page activity.
Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park
Texas White House Virtual Tour (Self-Guided)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
How can artifacts help us understand a person or a time period? With this question in mind, let’s travel back in time to the 1960’s and visit the Texas White House! During this self-guided virtual tour students will look for artifacts that can help them learn about President Johnson and the 1960s.
Gateway Arch National Park
Tort Liability: Franke v. City of St. Louis
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Frederick Franke was injured in St. Louis when part of a building fell on his head as he was walking. Tragically, he died as a result of his injuries. His mother, Julia Franke, sued the owner of the building and the City of St. Louis for damages. This case was heard in 1888 in the St. Louis Courthouse (the Old Courthouse). Students will reenact the case and hear from all sides.
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
Tule Springs Biodiversity Hunt
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will identify different species of plants, insects, and animals that live in Tule Springs in a self-guided field experience.
Lake Mead National Recreation Area
5th Grade Virtual Field Trip - Exotic Invaders
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
A virtual trip to the Shoreline Trail introduces students to the food webs of Lake Mead National Recreation Area along with how invasive species are causing change.
Fort Matanzas National Monument
Wildlife Safari
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Virtually join a ranger on a live wildlife safari!
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Compare and contrast adaptations displayed by animals that enable them to survive in Florida's natural habitats.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
White and yellow soils lie open to the southern sun, woody vegetation is sparse and stunted, and turkey vultures soar overhead. Yet Castolon offers more than severity: its history includes a harmonious mixing of the people along the United States-Mexico border.
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Dive deeper into this remote desert wonderland with an interactive question-and-answer program for groups of all ages. Meet with a ranger to discuss various Big Bend topics. Let us know your interests, and we will tailor a program for you! (30-45 minutes)
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
Battling Disease
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this lesson, students will answer the following essential questions: How has the prevention and battling of health threats changed between the US-Mexican War and today?
Canaveral National Seashore
America’s Space Program: Exploring a New Frontier
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The lesson can be used in American history, social studies, and geography courses in units on the space program, the Cold War and its effects on American society, or interdisciplinary units on science and technology.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Compromise of 1850, 5th & 6th Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
1850 Political Cartoon.
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
H2Oh no! – A Water Balloon Lesson
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Projectiles come in all shapes and sizes. Projectiles are objects with an initial velocity that are only affected by gravity after initial velocity has been obtained. You see projectiles every day – in sports and even dropped from birds. In this lab, you will analyze the physical properties of a water balloon in flight, aka a projectile, over multiple trials.
Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park
LBJ and the Environment of the 1960s
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Learn about the environmental issues of the 1960s and how President Lyndon B. Johnson took action.
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
Lasting Effects of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will learn about the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, read the articles of the treaty, and rewrite them in their own words. Students then write about how the Treaty affects them today. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to answer the question: What is the significance of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and how does it affect us today?
Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park
LBJ and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Learn about President Johnson's legislation actions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.