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Badlands National Park
Ranger-guided Badlands Field Trips
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Badlands National Park accepts reservations for ranger-guided field trips as staff is available.
Badlands National Park
Bison Banquet: Food Chains and Food Webs of the Prairie
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson students will students will identify the components of a prairie food chain and prairie food web. Students will be able to illustrate the transfer of energy in both a food chain and a food web. Students will also explore how environmental changes impact the food chain and food web.
Badlands National Park
Bison Banquet - Distance Learning Program
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Badlands National Park is home to a population of approximately 800 bison. Learn about the bison's natural and cultural history as you explore the many traditional Native American uses of the bison. Students will see bison parts and brainstorm possible uses for these items. (45 minutes)
Badlands National Park
Kylie's Fossil Find
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
In May 2010, a seven-year old girl named Kylie found a fossil near the visitor center at Badlands National Park. She did the right thing. She reported her find to rangers. It turned out to be a rare and well-preserved saber tooth cat fossil. This nonfiction story will help students understand the science of paleontology and the importance of protecting our natural resources and identify with the real-life story of another young student.
Badlands National Park
Bison by the Numbers
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The American bison was an important species to Native Americans on the Great Plains of North America. However, as settlers moved west during the nineteen century, the population numbers dramatically dropped from overhunting. In this exercise, students will learn graphing skills while learning about this species that almost went extinct.
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.
Badlands National Park
Bison Banquet
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
All life needs energy to grow and survive. Plants receive a vital part of their energy from the Sun, while animals receive their energy from eating plants or other animals. The path energy takes through a series of organisms is known as a food chain, while all the paths energy can travel through an ecosystem is known as a food web. Discover how the mixed-grass prairie plants and animals of Badlands National Park are connected to each other through food chains and an overall food web.
Petrified Forest National Park
Clam Beds Geology Hike
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Geology/Clam Beds Hike: Grades 3-8, 60-90 minutes Students hike with a ranger into the badlands of Petrified Forest where they learn how to make observations, read the rocks around them, discover fossil evidence and discuss ideas about Arizona's geologic past. Group Size is limited to 25 students.
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
Death Traps
- Type: Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This scripted slideshow for teachers describes the process by which animals have died and become fossilized in waterholes, influenced by a severe drought. It compares two sites, separated by 13 million years: Agate Fossil Beds and the Badlands. It is designed to teach students the principles relating to the behavior, habitat and survival of living animals; as well as scientific study of past life forms known as fossils; and severe climatic events.
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park
Reader's Theatre: Challenges on the Canal
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Poor Captain Meyers certainly had a bad day today! NPS/CHOH collection
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
LESSON 11: OD POR ODELIA
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Od Por Odelia was written by LeRoy Etienne as an ode to his mother who told him this story. In the tale an old man sells her rotten bananas. But dishonest conduct brings bad luck, and the old man dies soon thereafter.