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Arches National Park

Heat, Light, and Sound

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In these lessons, students investigate how energy moves through desert ecosystems in the form of heat, light, and sound. Students learn about insulators for heat and how sunscreen works to protect skin from UV light. They use sound to search for birds, and lenses to complete a scavenger hunt. The lesson concludes with a discussion about how too much heat, light, or sound can be harmful.

Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park

Lights, Camera, Action Lesson Plan

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

Who were the key figures in the Brown v. Board of Education court case? How did they contribute to desegregation?

Gateway Arch National Park

Building A Better World (Arrow of Light Required Adventure)

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

Join one of our national park rangers as they facilitate a discussion about the rights and responsibilities that come with being a scout and citizen. They will introduce you to some famous and not so famous heroes that have made a difference in our community, country, and world. Be sure to ask the ranger about their work in building a better world. Fulfills requirements 2, 3, and 4.

Acadia National Park

Virtual: Grades 7-10: Waves in Acadia – Sound and Light

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Draw sonograms. Measure infrared. Chart radio waves. Explore real world examples of light and sound waves in Acadia National Park with this interactive, virtual program. (1 hour)

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

National Park Legacy - Light Right at Night! Grades 7 - 8

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

The night skies division of the National Park Service promotes 6 practices that everyone can adopt and make a difference in reducing light pollution: light only where needed, light only when needed, use less light, use warm colored light, use energy efficient lamps, shield and direct lights downward.

Navesink Lighthouse and Robbins Reef Lighthouse: Lighting the Way Through New York Bay

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

The lesson could be used in U.S. history, social studies, and geography courses in units on nineteenth century and early twentieth century commerce or transportation, and to help students understand the role that maritime industries played in American history. The lesson could also be used to enhance studies related to the industrial revolution and women’s history.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Optical Illusions and Mirage on the Great Plains

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

Are your eyes playing tricks on you or is it the light? This lesson explores the properties of light and the environmental conditions which cause mirages. Students will examine some famous optical illusions before reading Josiah Gregg's experience with them when traveling across the Great Plains in the 1830s and 1840s.

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Moon Phases With Cookies

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

Students use the frosting of Oreo cookies to visualize the phases of the moon using the contrast of the frosting and cookie to represent light and shadows on the surface of the moon as seen from Earth.

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

Museum Scavenger Hunt (Self-Guided)

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

Our museum tells the story of the Atlanta Campaign and the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. The scavenger hunt is a fun, interactive, and educational way for students of all ages to explore our museum either on their own or with light guidance.

Shenandoah National Park

6th Grade | Virtual Shenandoah Watersheds

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Shenandoah National Park lies at the headwaters for three of Virginia’s watersheds. Through virtual exploration and observation of a mountain stream, students will connect local water sources with larger watersheds and better understand the dynamics of stream life and the extensive impacts of water management and usage. 60 minutes

Acadia National Park

What is Algae?

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

Students will be introduced to algae and research the different kinds. Students then will make algae in the classroom and take a field trip to see and observe macroalgae.

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

FLAMBEAUX GLEAUX: THE NEW ORLEANS MARDI GRAS FLAMBEAUX STRIKE OF 1946

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

This lesson concerns a strike by FLAMBEAUX, men (generally African American) in New Orleans who carry large torches to light the parades. It concerns reasons a community might become militant and the role of solidarity in such struggles. It uses music created by the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park that is found on the cd Remembering 300- Arrowhead Jazz Band.

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.

Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site

Waste Not: 4th - 5th Grade

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Bison were an essential animal for many plains tribes. This lesson explores the many uses tribal people had for the bison as well as economic and cultural significance.

Cook a Lizard

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

White Sands National Monument and "Cook a Lizard" lesson plan cooperating purpose statement: The brilliant white dune field has resulted in extremely rapid and remarkable adaptations in endemic and native flora and fauna. Certain species of insects and rodents have quickly evolved a more whitish coloration.

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

Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

Deep Time and You

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

Students create timelines showing significant events in Earth's history and their own lives.

Acadia National Park

Identifying Birds of Acadia

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

Students will learn about common tools used by naturalists (binoculars and spotting sheets). They will then use them to practice observation skills, identify local bird species and create their own class book of birds local to their school.

Acadia National Park

Botany for Elementary Students

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

Students will make observations of the nature found on their school grounds in order to use specific and detailed language to describe specimens.

Glacier National Park

What is Winter?

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

Students will learn how the movement of the earth around the sun (as well as the tilt, for older groups) causes the winter season. This activity will use group participation, demonstations, diagrams, and a globe.