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Poets of the Air

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

Do you think you can fly?

Monocacy National Battlefield

Battle to Save Water Quality

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

Evaluating farmlands that saved Washington, D.C. in the past and today’s management practices that save future water quality.

Buffalo National River

Water Quality and Buffalo River

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

This lesson plan was designed to help students understand the importance of water quality as it relates to the Buffalo River.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Water Quality Monitoring - High School

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

Students work through pre-field trip activities that introduce them to vocabulary, methods and aquatic invertebrate orders. During the field trip, students will explore a park stream to monitor its health based on chemical and biological indicators.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Water Quality Monitoring - Middle School

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Fort Vancouver National Historic Site

Visit to Pearson Air Museum

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

A ranger or docent will introduce your class to the museum and Pearson Field, the oldest continuously operated airfield west of the Mississippi. This hour long visit gives your students enough time to browse the museum space with their chaperone and/or enjoy the park film when available (25 minutes). Designed with 15 minutes left to walk to/from HBC Fort Vancouver.

Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

Prepare For Cold Air: SnowSchool Pre-visit Activity

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

Students will conduct experiments and observe the differences in insulation values for a variety of materials. Students will discover factors that influence winter survival for animals and learn how to dress for an outdoor snowshoe hike at Craters of the Moon.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Why Water Matters

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

The Cuyahoga River gained national attention when TIME magazine published the infamous burning river photograph in 1969. Though the incident helped propel improved standards in water quality nationwide and ultimately helped inspire the Clean Water Act, we continue to struggle as a nation with water quality issues. Explore the topic of water quality with your students and help them discover that water quality issues are a global environmental problem.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

What's in the Water?

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Water quality is measured using many physical, chemical, and biological assessments. In this lesson, introduce your students to five water chemistry tests. Students will become familiar with pH, nitrates, phosphates, dissolved oxygen and turbidity and their relationship to the Cuyahoga River Watershed. They will begin to understand acceptable test value ranges, make connections between water quality and the biological community and become familiar with the causes of poor water quality.

Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site

Test the Waters - Middle School

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students explore their connections to water and participate in hands-on field research by collecting water quality data.

Hot Springs National Park

Finding Hot Springs' Habitats

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

“Finding Hot Springs’ Habitats” is an environmental science program training students to “read” the many habitats of Hot Springs National Park. Students will learn about how the hot springs environment relies on a healthy ecosystem. Students analyze open air springs for water quality and thermal habitats before exploring terrestrial environments on a 0.5 mile naturalist hike. Designed for 2nd & 3rd grade Life Science lessons.

Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site

Test the Waters - High School

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

Students explore their connections to water while participating in a worldwide, citizen science initiative - collecting water quality data in the Saugus River.

Changes in Matter

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

Students learn the difference between physical and chemical changes in matter, and go for a hike to observe both in nature. At stations, students explore how rocks are weathered by both physical and chemical changes. Students then observe the mechanisms scientists use to measure ozone in the lower atmosphere and act out the chemical changes that destroy ozone in the upper atmosphere.

Chapter 5 Lesson Plan: The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963

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

Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) paratroopers jump from a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft over Bangladesh during exercise Cope South 14 Nov. 10, 2013. Cope South is an annual bilateral aerial exercise designed to increase the combat readiness and interoperability of the U.S. Air Force and the BAF. Public domain photograph from defenseimagery.mil.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Art Criticism and Mount Rushmore

• Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Through reading the essay, "The White Bird," by John Berger, students will learn about the qualities of art and how art can shape human perception. They will then use this to help reflect on Mount Rushmore as art.

Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site

Who Are the Tuskegee Airmen?

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

Two famous Tuskegee Experiments were conducted in the small town of Tuskegee, Alabama between 1932 and 1972. One conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service (Public Health) beginning in 1932, later called the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. The other conducted by the U.S. Army Air Corps (Air Corps) beginning in 1941, the participants of which were later dubbed "Tuskegee Airmen"

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.

Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site

Ulysses S. Grant and Leadership

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

This field trip teaches students about Ulysses S. Grant's life in St. Louis and the leadership qualities he developed while working as a farmer at White Haven. Students will also learn about slavery, the Civil War, and Grant's presidency during Reconstruction.

Devils Postpile National Monument

Exploring Climate Science: Climate Change

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

In “Exploring Climate Science (Climate Change),” students will explore causes of climate change and discuss impacts on the environment. Students will be able to: List three causes of climate change Describe at least two impacts to the environment caused by climate change

Glacier National Park

Snow Characteristics Lab Activity

• Type: Science Labs
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this science lab activity, students take temperatures at different depths in the snow and compare them to the air temperature. They will discover the insulating effect of snow and understand that temperature varies according to snow depth.