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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!
Timpanogos Cave National Monument
Ask a Ranger
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Ask a Ranger provides an opportunity for your classroom to interact with a Timpanogos Cave park ranger through a live and interactive lesson via the Internet. Students will prepare questions ahead of time and spend 30-60 minutes with the ranger discussing Timpanogos Cave geology, biology, conservation and human history, as well as what it's like to be a Park ranger and work for the National Park Service.
Timpanogos Cave National Monument
How to Make a Cave
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Just the power of weathering, erosion, and deposition is enough to make a cave! Students will explore a virtual scan of Timpanogos Cave to discover evidence of these concepts.
Timpanogos Cave National Monument
Deep Dweller Adaptations
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Where do you find food in a cave? How do you see without sunlight? Explore the adaptations of the wildlife that call caves home! Examine tactile examples of structures and functions that allow animals to survive in the extreme cave environment.
Timpanogos Cave National Monument
Utah History in National Parks
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
How do National Parks reflect the history of Utah? Students will discuss the roles of National Parks both in the United States of America and Utah. They will then explore various parks in Utah to discover how they tell our state’s history.
Timpanogos Cave National Monument
Adaptation Explorers
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Introduce adaptations with a ranger! Students will be introduced to adaptations, structures, and their functions. Rangers will use tactile examples of Utah wildlife to illustrate how adaptations support survival in ecosystems throughout Utah.
Timpanogos Cave National Monument
Communities Care in National Parks! Grades 2 and 3
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Explore communities through National Parks! Students will learn the types of communities that use National Parks and compare them to their own. We will also discuss the role of community members and how we work to solve problems in our National Parks.
President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site
Family Ties (Post Visit)
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Teacher will lead a discussion on what aspects of President Cllinton's early years were similar or different than the student's experiences.
President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site
Family Ties (Pre Visit)
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students are encouraged to bring or upload one of their baby pictures and one old family photo to Google Classroom. Teacher will organize them in Google Slides and display the images to the class to identify "who is who' in their class.
Wind Cave National Park
Cardboard Caving
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
An exciting activity where students design, build, and explore a cardboard cavern.
Wind Cave National Park
Cave Cracks
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
A "cool" demonstration using a block of ice to simulate carbonic acid dissolving away a cave.
Mammoth Cave National Park
Clay Caves
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This lesson plan is from "Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3", which comprises ten lessons. This is lesson 8 of that set. Students can watch a cave form in their model landform.
Buffalo National River
Buffalo Caves and Karst
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson was designed to help students learn about karst landscapes and how erosion can form various land features (ex. caves).
Mammoth Cave National Park
Mammoth Cave Mobile
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This lesson plan is a part of "Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3", produced by the park's Environmental Education program. The GrK-3 Guide comprises ten lessons; this is lesson 2 of the set. Students will discover the components that make up a National Park
Lava Beds National Monument
Cave Life Traveling Trunk
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Explore Cave Life from your classroom!
Wind Cave National Park
What's That Green Stuff In The Cave?
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Photos of cave clean up and bleaching algae. A small demonstration to show what happens when we touch the cave.
Lava Beds National Monument
Lava Beds Geology in Mushpot Cave
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Ranger-led tour through cave.
Mammoth Cave National Park
Squirrels Need A Home - or - Bats Need A Cave
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This lesson plan is a part of "Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3", produced by the park's Environmental Education program. The GrK-3 Guide comprises ten lessons; this is lesson 6 of the set.
Natchez Trace Parkway
Read with a Ranger Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This program illustrates how a woman and a former enslaved person worked towards changing society. It ties women and enslaved people’s roles in the formation and continuation of the Natchez Trace.
Wind Cave National Park
Surveying into the darkness
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
A mock cave survey where students use compasses to navigate along a specific path.