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Zion National Park
Zion Canyon Field Institute
- Type: Field Schools & Institutes
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
A variety of educational opportunities await your class at Zion National Park!
Zion National Park
The Forests, Wetlands, and Deserts of Zion
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This distance learning program focuses on the plants and animals that live in Zion’s varying ecosystems. Students will learn about their adaptations and relationships to each other in this interactive lesson with a creative and critical thinking activity. (45 minutes)
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Carving the Canyon - The Geologic Story of Zion
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Trace the geologic history of earth through the stunning canyon walls of Zion National Park. This program introduces students to the unique and complex story of Zion and the southwest, and allows students to gain a deeper understanding of geologic processes. Students interact with park rangers to discuss the formation of this canyon, and then engage in a critical-thinking activity about erosion. (60 minutes)
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Genetics and Adaptations: Understanding Inherited Traits and Survival
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The students will focus on and discover how different plants living in Zion National Park use their inheritable traits to adapt to their environment. Students will model plant genetics using different colored beans to make combinations of alleles, representing the hybridization of prickly pear cacti in Zion National Park.
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Amazing Animals
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Join us to learn about the most important inhabitants of Zion Canyon - the animals! This program will introduce students to a variety of animals, from the night-loving ringtail to the spiky horned lizard. Youth will learn about the adaptations that allow these animals to thrive in Zion, and the diversity of landscape that creates habitats for such a variety of animals. (30 minutes)
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Whooo's in the Canyon?
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Who left these clues behind here in the high canyons of Zion National Park? A feather, small bones, and hoot hooting in the trees can be heard as your classroom goes on a virtual hike of Zion to discover the Mexican Spotted Owl. Learn owl about this predator and how it uses its special adaptations to survive in this harsh desert environment. (20-30 minutes)
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Classification Systems
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Image of two grey fox kits
Zion National Park
Chat with a Ranger - All Grades
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In Chat with a Ranger, students learn about Zion National Park, the park service, and the life of a ranger. Students prepare and send questions ahead of time. This program can be adapted to fit different curriculum objectives, and is appropriate for any age group. (30 minutes)
Zion National Park
Dinosaur Discovery Travel Trunk
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The trunk contains nine different plaster replicas of dinosaur tracks and other fossils, and six molds of tracks that can be used to make impressions. A binder includes outlined activities, background information, laminated images, and resources.
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Pollination Investigation
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this distance learning program, students will discover what pollination is and how important it is to all ecosystems. Looking at the relationship between plants and pollinators, participants will see how they have influenced each other and will be challenged to create their own perfect pollinator. (45 minutes)
Zion National Park
Earth's Features: Interpreting Patters with Topographic Maps
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will identify a landform around them and create their own topographic map. They will also build a mountain out of playdough and divide the mountain into sections, which they will use to make a topographic map that shows contour lines, elevation changes, and gradients.
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Bird Beak Adaptaions
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
A ‘bird beak relay’ race using different objects to represent the beaks and food sources of 3 different birds will demonstrate to students that animals are specifically adapted for the food they eat and their surrounding environment.
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Sustainable Design Solutions: Mitigating Effects of Natural Resource Use
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Using Zion's visitor center as inspiration, students will design energy-efficient buildings to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
Zion National Park
Desert Plant Adaptations: Structures that Support Survival
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Zion’s Desert Plants introduction video. A ‘design a desert plant’ activity where students will draw and present a plant that they created and the adaptations they chose to help it survive.
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Pollination Adaptations: Connecting Habitat and Anatomy
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Have you ever wondered why bees are so fuzzy? Or how they’re able to find flowers and then travel back to their nests? Or even wanted to know why bees are such good pollinators? Students will have the opportunity to explore the answers to each of those questions. Once students have a basic understanding of bee body parts, they can design their own bee based around a Zion habitat. Students can be as creative as they like—as long as they provide an explanation for how their bee can thrive in Zion!
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to identify the major rock formation types in various national parks.