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Abe’s Childhood Adventures
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Meaningful Watershed Education Experience
Middle School: Ecosystem Comparison
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will compare the biotic and abiotic factors of a forest and a dune ecosystem, enabling them to discover why the dunes are a challenging, yet unique ecosystem. Students will also learn that animals and plants have developed adaptations that help them live or travel through the dunes.
Canyon Connections: 5th - 8th Grade
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Canyon Connections program explores the relationship between living (biotic) and nonliving (abiotic) in three Grand Canyon ecosystems. Participants will be asked to make observations as they investigate interactions between living and non-living and understand how these interactions shape adaptations for survival. Program is given by Grand Canyon Park Rangers via Distance Learning and is intended for 5th through 8th grade.
Craters Ecosystem
Always Changing
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Working in three teams, students will use reference material to create and present a play showing 100 years of change for each forest type.
Organisms in and Around Water
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

• Students will take a look at different ways water makes its way to a pond/lake. • Students will also be thinking about how that water carries contaminants and sediment and what impact that has on ponds/lakes. • Students will make a food chain and/or a food web to share what biotic factors play a role in watersheds.