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Yellowstone National Park

Expedition Yellowstone

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Teachers can view a sample of the Expedition Yellowstone curriculum. The curriculum in its entirety can be purchased for $60 through the Yellowstone Association by calling 406-848-2400.

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone Distance Learning

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

Schedule a live virtual visit with a Yellowstone park ranger! Teachers can request a K-12 distance learning program on a wide variety of Yellowstone topics.

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone Forever Institute

• Type: Field Schools & Institutes
• Grade Levels: Adult Education

Youth and college programs for middle-school through college-age groups are designed to engage the next generation of park stewards.

Yellowstone National Park

Expedition Yellowstone: Field School

• Type: Field Schools & Institutes
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This 4-5 day residential curriculum-based program is offered for teachers and their 4-8th grade classes. Students learn about the natural and cultural history of Yellowstone, investigate current issues affecting the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and promote stewardship and preservation in the park and in home communities.

Yellowstone National Park

Imaginary Yellowstone Road Trip

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

In this activity, students will learn about symbols and use them to express themselves in the form of a personalized license plate. With a brief introduction to Yellowstone National Park and its most popular attractions, students can explore the park on a virtual Yellowstone National Park road trip.

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone Field Trip With Your Class

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

Bring your students to Yellowstone for an educational experience of a lifetime. Park Rangers may be able to offer free ranger-led activities for organized groups such as K-12 school groups visiting the park on topics such as geology, geysers, wildlife, ecology, or history.

Yellowstone National Park

Painting 1000 Words

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

Students examine historic Yellowstone artwork and discover the influential “voices” of painter Thomas Moran and photographer William H. Jackson. Students then give voice to their own Yellowstone experiences through watercolors and photographs.

Yellowstone National Park

Make Your Own Caldera

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

Create your own caldera to see what the Yellowstone Caldera might have looked like after the eruption.

Yellowstone National Park

Winter Survival Adaptations: Caching Food

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

Students cache their own "food" to learn about the different strategies used by two different Yellowstone animals and how this helps them survive winter.

Gateway Arch National Park

Mountain Man Traveling Trunk

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this traveling trunk, students will learn about Mountain Man John Colter and his travels through what is today Yellowstone National Park in the early 1800s.

Invent an Animal

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

Students work collaboratively to create fictitious animals in order to understand adaptations that help wildlife survive among various habitats throughout the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site

Ulysses S. Grant and the National Park Service

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

This 30 to 40 minute Distance Learning program offers an introduction to the National Park Service and Ulysses S. Grant's role in the creation of Yellowstone, the world's first National Park.

Yellowstone National Park

How Geysers Erupt

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

Geysers exist in only a few places on Planet Earth. In Yellowstone there are more geysers than the rest of the planet combined. Students learn about the unique conditions that allow geysers to erupt.

Yellowstone National Park

Who Am I? (A lesson on animals and their habitats)

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

Each student researches an animal that inhabits Yellowstone National Park and prepares an Animal Profile Card with ten facts about each animal. Students share Profile Cards and attempt to identify the unidentified animals.

Yellowstone National Park

Create a Cool Petrification Station

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

Create your own petrified log and learn how the petrification process works.

Yellowstone National Park

Predict Old Faithful

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

Use the rangers' formula to predict the next eruption of Old Faithful Geyser.

Yellowstone National Park

Dueling Mandates

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Using dilemma cards describing some of the issues affecting Yellowstone National Park, students work in small groups to consider management issues that meet both of the conflicting mandates that the National Park Service must follow. The student will explore the complexities involved in making management decisions and discover the far-reaching consequences of park management decisions.

Yellowstone National Park

Camouflage

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

This active game can be used to introduce the concepts of predator-prey dynamics as well as adaptations.

Yellowstone National Park

Making Tracks

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will compare the tracks of grizzly bears, wolves and humans and make observations about their similarities and differences.

Yellowstone National Park

Waters of Life: Survey of a Riparian Area

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

In this outdoor science activity, students investigate plant and animal life in and around a creek. Students work in groups, with each group member performing a different task: observing, recording, mapping, classifying. Finally, the team puts the information together to make conclusions about the ecological connections that exist within the area surveyed.