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National Mall and Memorial Parks

Urban Pools

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students will explore the use and management of water in the parks in the District of Columbia are reflections of the enduring and evolving relationship between humans and nature. Students will collect water quality data from at least two of the Mall’s urban pools and compare data with current management plans.

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve

Discover Urban Insects!

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Discover what insects are hanging around your town with Dr. Aimee Thomas. Download the application “Seek” or borrow an insect field guide from the library and use those to identify FIVE insects in or around your home! Take notes on what you see to help you identify them next time!

Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve

Nocturnal Lives

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will understand the difficulty nocturnal creatures have and the reasons they come out at night.

Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail

Live from 1812!

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

Students will act out newscasts taking place in different parts of the country during the War of 1812. Four groups will portray four unique experiences using primary and secondary source readings to prepare for the role-play. At the end of the lesson,students will share what they learned in a “Letter to the Producer" to answer the question: How did the War of 1812 impact the daily life of citizens economically and socially?

Mississippi National River & Recreation Area

Living River Online

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

This online program helps kids understand how organisms live within an ecosystem. Three interactive stations feature exciting videos and fun learning modules about floodplains, mussels, pike and the Mississippi River! The course explores different ways to look at the river to determine its vitality.

First State National Historical Park

How the Native Americans Lived

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

Students will travel back in time to gain an understanding of how people can survive off the land. This program takes place at the New Castle Court House Museum.

Olympic National Park

What's Living Around Me?

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

Students will explore and investigate 4 different areas around campus (mud puddle, rocky parking lot, grass field, tree base) to determine other living things in those areas and what they might need from those areas.

How Living Things Become Fossils

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

Students bring in small leaves, bones, and/or shells and make their own fossils.

Ninety Six National Historic Site

Lives of Backcountry Children Traveling Trunk

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

The Lives of Backcountry Children trunk is designed to enrich your students' studies of the daily life of frontier boys and girls in the 18th century. Along with a variety of artifacts the trunk also includes various lessons and activities. Just a few examples of lesions and activities included are Colonial Clothing, Colonial Children’s Chores, and Colonial Games and Music.

Channel Islands National Park

Channel Islands Live Dive: 4th Grade

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

Students explore the kelp forest with a park ranger-diver through an interactive distance learning program. As kelp forest inhabitants are encountered, fourth grade students identify their roles as producers or consumers. Food chains are constructed. What if one organism in a food chain disappears? What if some condition in the kelp forest changes?

Channel Islands National Park

Channel Islands Live Dive: 5th Grade

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

Students explore the kelp forest with a park ranger-diver through an interactive distance learning program. The role of kelp as a producer and, therefore, its ability to produce oxygen through photosynthesis are emphasized. Affects of human activities on kelp forests are also explored.

Channel Islands National Park

Channel Islands Live Dive: 6th Grade

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

Students explore the kelp forest with a park ranger-diver through an interactive distance learning program. As kelp forest inhabitants are encountered, students identify their roles as producers or consumers. Food chains are constructed and the transfer of energy is discussed. Affects of human activities on kelp forests are also explored.

Channel Islands National Park

Channel Islands Live Dive: High School

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students explore the kelp forest with a park ranger-diver through an interactive distance learning program. Program emphasis is on the park's kelp forest inventory and monitoring program and the rationale for creation of marine protected areas (MPAs). Affects of human activities on kelp forests are also explored.

Mount Rainier National Park

Living with a Volcano in Your Backyard - Teacher Workshop

• Type: Teacher Workshops & Other Programs
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Run for Your Lives! The Johnstown Flood of 1889

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

Determine how environmental management, technology, and the actions of 19th-century industrialists contributed to a disaster in Pennsylvania that shocked the nation. Also understand why a community spent funds to restore a railway built to save lives.

Glacier National Park

Ask a Ranger: Living and Working in Glacier National Park

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

Park Rangers have a wealth of knowledge about Glacier National Park, living in rural Montana, and more. Tap into these stores of knowledge through a short presentation followed by an informal question and answer session that is available to groups of all ages. Topics can cover the flora, fauna, glaciers, geology, biology, and cultural history of Glacier, as well as careers in the National Park Service. The education staff at Glacier can visit your classroom for free via the

Lowell National Historical Park

The Human Impact on the Living Planet Virtual Field Trip

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

Tracing the water cycle, from precipitation to surface water runoff, students investigate how humans’ impact the health of the environment. Through stories of everyday activities, students make predictions, conduct observations, and formulate conclusions as our staff conduct live experiments. After observing the test of a simple water filter, students propose changes to improve the design and discuss ways in which their community can reduce its impact on Earth’s resources.

George Washington Birthplace National Monument

How Most of the Plantation Lived: Slavery at the Washington's Farm

• Type: Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

How Most of the Plantation Lived: Slavery at the Washington's Farm Materials will be mailed when reservation is made. Please call [phone] ext. 227 for further questions or to inquire about making a reservation.

Channel Islands National Park

Channel Islands Live Hike: Island of the Blue Dolphins

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

Students discover Anacapa Island through an interactive, live visit with a park ranger and learn about the Channel Islands' tie to the book Island of the Blue Dolphins. They identify basic human needs and find out how these needs are met by people living on islands with fewer and less diversity of resources.

Alaska Public Lands

Live Virtual Visits to the Alaska Public Lands Visitor Center

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

The Alaska Public Lands Information Center, hosts exhibits representing natural, historical, and cultural features throughout the state. Wandering among the exhibits, visitors get a mini tour of Alaska. One can also learn about recreating on public lands in the state as well as materials for educators to bring back to their classrooms.