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Manassas National Battlefield Park

Adaptations

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

Describe how plants and animals use adaptations to survive in a particular environment. Explain how impacts on a habitat influence the adaptations of a species.

Haleakalā National Park

Adaptation

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

In this lesson, haumana (students) will learn what a botanist, ornithologist, and entomologist are and what they do, what adaptation is and how Hawaiʻi native Honeycreepers adapted to fill unique niches in the environment.

John Day Fossil Beds National Monument

Biodiversity and Adaptation

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

In this unit, learn about adaptations, what present-day animals tell us about fossil animals, how fossils inform paleontologist about past environments, and construct a Mastodon, an ancient elephant.

Haleakalā National Park

Haleakalā Adaptations

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

At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to: 1. Describe how plants and animals use adaptations to survive in particular environment. 2. Explain how impacts on a habitat can influence the adaptations of a species.

Arches National Park

Plant Adaptations

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

Students explore the structures of plants and their functions by comparing desert and riparian plant adaptations. Students engineer mechanisms to help seeds travel, and design their own plants in the classroom.

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.

Arches National Park

Desert Adaptations

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students observe and compare different methods of seed dispersal. They learn about bat behavior and anatomy, and explore how camouflage helps animals hide in their habitats. Lastly, they discover how the shape of a bird’s beak correspond to what it eats.

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Bison Adaptations

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

Bison mother with calf

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.

Haleakalā National Park

What Is My Adaptation?

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

Haleakalā National Park protects one of the only remaining habitats for native species. Maui’s endemic species are native species that adapted to the islands over time and are found nowhere else. They had to adapt to the vast variety of ecosystems in order to improve their ability to find food, water, shelter, and space. An adaptation is a change of form or behavior that helps a species survive in a specific environment. Most living things have a variety of adaptations.

Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial

Predator Prey Adaption

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

During this lesson the students will play a modified version of freeze tag to help them better understand predator/prey relationships.

John Day Fossil Beds National Monument

Physical or Behavioral Adaptations

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

Learn what adaptations are and the differences between physical and behavioral adaptations.

Fortune Teller Adaptations

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

The Fortune Teller will be used by students to challenge their classmates with guessing some unusual animal adaptations from around the world. The extension activity exposes students to famous biologists who have studied plants and animals in the past and present, creating a “Famous Biologist Timeline”.

Acadia National Park

Plant Adaptation Hunt

• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will be able explore their outdoor space and identify and investigate plant adaptations.

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.

Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

Adapting to an Extreme Environment

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

Students match Craters plant adaptations to different habitat types and use their imaginations to create a species well adapted to a habitat of their design.

Timpanogos Cave National Monument

Deep Dweller Adaptations

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

Where do you find food in a cave? How do you see without sunlight? Explore the adaptations of the wildlife that call caves home! Examine tactile examples of structures and functions that allow animals to survive in the extreme cave environment.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Winter Adaptations in the Black Hills

• Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Using images, descriptions and definitions students will compare and contrast different strategies animals use to survive in their environment. They will apply this knowledge to other animals and environments and communicate their ideas within small groups and with the larger class.

Stones River National Battlefield

Adaptation of Plants to Cedar Glades

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

Students will be able to describe the adaptations that are required and present in plants that are found in the cedar glades.

Biodiversity Curriculum: Flipping for Adaptations

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

Students will show what they have learned by drawing and writing about their “flipped” animal to encourage creativity and thoughtful response in how these adaptations help their animals survive in their unique environments. As an extension, students can do further research on specific animals and their adaptations by making “What Am I?” cards to play in class.