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- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This activity allows students to learn about the different threats to biodiversity (HIPPO) by making a card and playing bingo.
Acadia National Park
Migration Threats Activity
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to identify the challenges birds face during migration by playing a game where each student is assigned a bird during migration.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Explore the causes and effects of sea level rise. Learn how you can join park staff in protecting coastal areas threatened by climate change.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students are given the opportunity to research a topic of their choice related to threats that exist to the biodiversity of our planet.
Rocky Mountain National Park
Life on the Edge
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The alpine ecosystem of Rocky Mountain National Park is a unique yet fragile place. Join a ranger in discovering common threats to pikas, ptarmigan, and plants in the "land above the trees". Students will research various threats to this community and apply their knowledge to better understand their local communities.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
The survival of different species depends on two species helping each other. The complex relationships within one habitat can be hurt when one of the species is threatened or one of the species becomes extinct.
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?
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Flora on the Plains: Grasses, Trees, and Agriculture
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Follow alongside a trading caravan with Josiah Gregg to observe how plant life contributed to and threatened survival in the southern Great Plains. Consider how human impact and responsible management of natural resources was necessary during the fur trade era just as it is today.
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.
Everglades National Park
"Unwanted Guests" Don't Let It Loose: 5-8th Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Everglades is home to many species of animals, fifteen of which are considered endangered. The invasion of exotic species is a threat to native species. Removing exotics from the Everglades is expensive and not always successful.
Indiana Dunes National Park
A Royal Journey
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The goal of A Royal Journey is to spread the voice on conservation and need of this threatened species. We also strive to bring a scientist’s journey into the concept of the student’s thinking. The dynamic timeliness of necessity has inspired the Indiana Dunes National Park to invite and educate students of today and adults of tomorrow to learn and save this imperiled species.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
What can you do to help pollinators? Students will •explain different threats to pollinators in the world •describe one or two actions they can take to help pollinators •build and/or plant a “bee helper” for their backyards
- 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.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This activity will introduce students to some of the invasive species that pose a threat to native species in Haleakalā National Park. Students will learn how to identify different invasive species and will create an invasive species poster to share with their classmates.
Shenandoah National Park
6th-8th Grade | Virtual Shenandoah Salamander: Climate Change Casualty or Survivor?
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The Shenandoah salamander is an endangered species found only on a few rocky slopes within Shenandoah National Park. Its survival is being threatened by changing climate and habitat competition from the more common red-backed salamander. Students will virtually explore and research to determine how climate change and habitat competition could be impacting the survival of the Shenandoah salamander. 60 minutes
Shenandoah National Park
9th-12th Grade | Virtual Exploring Earth Science: The Shenandoah Salamander and Climate Change
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The Shenandoah salamander is an endangered species found only on a few rocky slopes within Shenandoah National Park. Its survival is being threatened by changing climate and habitat competition. Students will virtually explore and research to determine how climate change and habitat competition could be impacting the survival of the Shenandoah salamander. Students will collaborate and present potential survival plans for the species. Two 60 minute sessions
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Salamander Research Field Trip (Middle School)
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Researchers use salamanders as a bio-indicator to help assess the health of our forests threatened by air pollution and impacts from a changing climate. When students visit the Smokies on their field trip, one group will be collecting data as part of a Salamander study. The pre, onsite, and post-visit activities in this packet will introduce the scientific method and use the identifying anatomical characteristics to key different species of salamanders.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Sharing Star Stories
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Bring the night sky to your classroom with Sleeping Bear Dunes' mobile planetarium. This school visit explores how different cultures have connected with the night sky through constellations, and how light pollution threatens these connections. This program requires a large open room (like a gymnasium) that is at least 17 ft x 17 ft, and at least 12 ft high. The planetarium is accessible for students with physical disabilities.
Shenandoah National Park
9th-12th Grade | Exploring Earth Science: The Shenandoah Salamander and Climate Change
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The Shenandoah salamander is an endangered species found only on a few rocky slopes within Shenandoah National Park. Its survival is being threatened by changing climate and habitat competition from the more common red-backed salamander. Students will conduct field research on the red-backed salamander to compare the two salamander species’ habitat requirements and determine how climate change and habitat competition are impacting the survival.
Shenandoah National Park
6th-8th Grade | Shenandoah Salamander: Climate Change Casualty or Survivor?
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The Shenandoah salamander is an endangered species found only on a few rocky slopes within Shenandoah National Park. Its survival is being threatened by changing climate and habitat competition from the more common red-backed salamander. Students will conduct field research on the red-backed salamander to compare the two salamander species’ habitat requirements and determine how climate change and habitat competition are impacting the survival.