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Rocky Mountain National Park

Wildfire Behavior

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

Join a ranger to discover wildfire’s role in nature and to engage in a fun, interactive activity that dives deep into what influences wildfire behavior- topography, weather, and fuel. Participants will explore the causes of wildfire through the lens of the 2020 East Troublesome Fire and how that knowledge can help us prepare and keep ourselves and our communities safe.

Glacier National Park

Surviving in the Wild

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

Students role play a day in the life of a pet animal and then sort pictures of a variety of animals into “wild” or “domestic” categories with the option of making collages of each category. They will think about how “wild” animals are different from domestic animals and why wild animals need “wild” places to live.

Glacier National Park

Who's Wild?

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

Students learn the differences between wildlife and domesticated animals.

Glacier National Park

What Is Wild?

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

Students participate in a guided imagery exercise and take a trip to an imaginary “wild” place.

Grand Teton National Park

What is Wild

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

The lesson allows students to think about and discuss their role and the importance of protecting habitats for different types of organisms.

Acadia National Park

Are You Wild?

• Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will be able to distinguish between wild and domestic animals.

Wild vs Domestic- All About Animals

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

Explore the outdoors and learn all about animals at Oxon Hill Farm. This field trip takes advantage of the 500 acres of natural landscape at Oxon Cove Park. Designed for K-5.

Fort Scott National Historic Site

Democracy Run Wild: Distance Learning Program

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

During Bleeding Kansas, conflicts at the ballot box, in the courts, and in the halls of government divided a town, a territory, and an entire nation as people from all sides of the spectrum joined in a struggle for freedom in Kansas Territory.

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha: "Hatcheries - Saviors or Scourge for Wild Salmon?"

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

This activity helps students understand the history and roles that hatcheries serve in sustaining commercial fisheries, native fish populations, and saving endangered fish stocks. They will also do their own research on the pros and cons of hatcheries.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

"Wild About Animals" Virtual Program - Pre-K to Grade 2

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

Wild About Animals introduces students to animals that live in Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Through games, a story, and skulls and pelts students will learn about these animals and discover the adaptations that help them survive in their habitats. Learn more about the program and how to sign up.

Glacier National Park

Goldilocks and the Real Bears

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

Compare the wild bears that live in Glacier to the bears in the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Cape Lookout National Seashore

Horses and Humans: Shackleford Horses Unit

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

This science & math unit features the wild horses of Shackleford Banks. See attached complete unit.

Everglades National Park

"Where Have You Gone?" Environment: 4-6 Grade

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

Students will be able to: a) discuss some of the problems that wild animals and plants face from humans, b) list examples of how personal feelings and beliefs can affect situations involving wild organisms, and c) make decisions about a value-related plant/animal issue.

Denali National Park & Preserve

Denali's Dinosaurs

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

Denali was created to protect wild animals, but it also protects some of the most expansive and significant dinosaur trackways in the world. During this Distance Learning program, students travel back in time with a ranger to learn about how the predator-prey interactions of Denali’s dinosaurs mirror those of wild animals in Denali today.

Rocky Mountain National Park

Rocky Through Time

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Adult Education

What is the essence of a place? Is it what we can see or what we can hear? Is it solely about that place or also about how a place makes us feel? Explore these topics with a Ranger and discover if cumulative changes in wildlife, wildfires and visitation have changed how we view Rocky Mountain National Park over the past 100 years.

Acadia National Park

Ecosystem Explorers (Kindergarten)

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

These programs are written for grades K-2 as a fall exploratory hike along Maine's wild coastline. Each program builds on the previous one and is based on the Next Generation Science Standards.

Acadia National Park

Ecosystem Explorers (1st Grade)

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

These programs are written for grades K-2 as a fall exploratory hike along Maine's wild coastline. Each program builds on the previous one and is based on the Next Generation Science Standards.

Acadia National Park

Ecosystem Explorers (2nd Grade)

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

These programs are written for grades K-2 as a fall exploratory hike along Maine's wild coastline. Each program builds on the previous one and is based on the Next Generation Science Standards.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Biodiversity Study

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

Fun, hands-on activity to introduce students to the idea of biodiversity and/or increase math graphing skills. This activity is part of a Knife River Indian Villages' field trip opportunity. However, it can be adapted to any open, wild grass area near your school.

Glacier National Park

Native Harvest

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

Discussion of the value of native plants and plants as cultural resources. Students have access to materials, library, internet to do plant research. Best if can also do field trip to park or other wild area to see native plants in their natural setting.