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Shenandoah National Park

1st Grade | Plant and Animal Detectives
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Plants and animals live all around us and each one has the same life needs. Students will explore Shenandoah National Park to discover the different plants and animals that live in the park. Students will investigate how, where and why plants and animals meet their life needs in their respective environments and how Shenandoah National Park provides protection for plants and animals.

White Sands National Park

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

Targeted Grades: Grades 3-7. Can be used with older and younger students.

Arches National Park

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

Students explore structures animals have that function to help them survive. On the pre-trip, an instructor dresses up to illustrate the amazing adaptations of this animal. On the field trip, students design and test their own beaver dams. They compare their eyesight to raptors. And, they explore adaptations that help mountain lions hunt and deer avoid being caught.

Zion National Park

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)

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.

Glacier National Park

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

Students discuss human-animal relationship, choose animal for research, answer animal research questions, illustrate and share research.

Rocky Mountain National Park

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

Join an education ranger as they introduce five animals of Rocky Mountain National Park, noting the differences between their parents and offspring, while exploring the characteristics that help them survive in this diverse landscape.

Badlands National Park

Prairie Animals and Habitats
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Badlands National Park protects 244,000 acres of mixed-grass prairie habitat and the wild animals that live in it. Prairie vegetation is mostly grasses--find out why. Then take a look at some of the wildlife (including bison, pronghorn, prairie dogs, and black-footed ferrets) that have adaptations that allow them to thrive in the prairie environment. Students participating in the in-class program may see and touch animal pelts, complete a puzzle, or complete a craft.

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

By analyzing patterns and measurements, students will be able to identify and label multiple animal track sets in the Track Mystery Table. Students will use critical thinking skills to support their answers.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

Eat Like an Animal
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Eating locally and seasonally is more sustainable for us all.

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

Compare and contrast adaptations displayed by animals that enable them to survive in Florida's natural habitats.

Homestead National Historical Park

Prairie Animals (K-2)
  • Type: Traveling Trunk
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

The trunk includes curriculum materials, tracks, scat, animal furs and animals skulls that can be integrated into science, art, reading, and language arts curriculum. Additionally, the curriculum materials include student station sheets, so students can rotate stations without the teacher having to repeat instructions.

Acadia National Park

Amazing Animal Adaptations Resources
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Resources for Amazing Animal Adaptations.

Homestead National Historical Park

Prairie Animals (3-5)
  • Type: Traveling Trunk
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The trunk includes curriculum materials, tracks, scat, animal furs and animals skulls that can be integrated into science, art, reading, and language arts curriculum. Additionally, the curriculum materials include student station sheets, so students can rotate stations without the teacher having to repeat instructions.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Fauna: Draft Animals, Buffalo, and Rattlesnakes
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

If you had to travel over 2 months to reach your destination, which animal would you depend on to get you there? In this lesson and activity, students will predict and experience the three common modes of transportation along the Santa Fe Trail as a relay. They will consider the role of animals in commerce and Westward expansion during the fur trade era.

Acadia National Park

Build a Habitat for Your Stuffed Animal
  • Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

What do animals need to survive in their habitats? Build a habitat for a stuffed animal and find out. This activity parrallels the educational program "Wildlife in Their Habitat"

Assateague Island National Seashore

Kindergarten| Feathers & Hair: What Animals Wear!
  • Type: Guest Speakers
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Whether it is feathers, fur, skin, or hair, young learners will explore what animals wear with a story that comes to life with props and pantomime. Program Length: 45 minutes NGSS: 1-LS1-1

Everglades National Park

"Create an Animal" Wildlife: 4-6th Grade
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Our "Wildlife" unit is broken into 16 lesson plans, each taking from 20 minutes to several class periods to complete, and targeted mainly at 4th-6th grade students. A class needn't complete every lesson in the unit, though some lessons do refer to one another and are better done in sequence. However, each lesson comes with its own set of objectives and resources.

Everglades National Park

"Animal Olympics" Wildlife: 4-6th Grade
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Our "Wildlife" unit is broken into 16 lesson plans, each taking from 20 minutes to several class periods to complete, and targeted mainly at 4th-6th grade students. A class needn't complete every lesson in the unit, though some lessons do refer to one another and are better done in sequence. However, each lesson comes with its own set of objectives and resources.

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.