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Glacier National Park

Bears in Glacier

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

Glacier National Park is home to a healthy population of both grizzly bears and black bears. In this program, students will learn about bears and their natural history, as well as current research being conducted on bear populations in Glacier National Park. The education staff at Glacier can visit your classroom for free via the internet. Using a videoconferencing platform, Glacier becomes just a click away.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Bear Essentials

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

Our Bear Essentials program will introduce your students to the essentials bears need to survive and inspire them to think like scientists.

Yellowstone National Park

A Bear's Menu

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

Working in small groups, students examine the feeding habits of bears and draw pictures to show what bears do in spring, summer, fall, and winter. Students use a small pattern of a grizzly bear and increase its scale to construct a full-size silhouette of a grizzly in order to appreciate the bear’s size.

Which Bear?

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students compare black, grizzly, and polar bear shapes, sizes, tracks and food.

Glacier National Park

Bear Noses

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Just like a bear, students will use their sense of smell to locate an object in the room.

Glacier National Park

The Bear Facts

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

Explore the ranges and habitats of different types of bears.

Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve

Bears of Glacier Bay 3: Be Bear Aware

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will become “bear aware” by exploring ways to reduce human-bear interactions and applying them to different real-life scenarios. They will use critical thinking skills to make a list of considerations when camping, hiking, fishing, and at home. Students will conclude by creating a “Bear Aware Campaign” by making posters, creating podcasts or videos, or writing news stories.

Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve

Bears of Glacier Bay Lesson One: Name That Bear

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

Learn what the differences are between brown bears and black bears, and along the way, you'll learn how a bear's growth, development, and maturation compares to a human.

Glacier National Park

Goldilocks and the Real Bears

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Compare the wild bears that live in Glacier to the bears in the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Lake Clark National Park & Preserve

Brown Bear Survival Game

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

In this lesson, students play a Brown Bear Survival board game, in which they will learn about resource availability and the movement of brown bears. This game and all of the bears in the game are based on actual research conducted by park biologists in Lake Clark National Park.

Lake Clark National Park & Preserve

Carrying Capacity and Bears in Alaska

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

This lesson allows students to learn about the concept of carrying capacity by looking at the factors that allow animals to thrive in some areas, but not in others. Students will learn about the brown bears of Lake Clark National Park and the Denali area to see why some are leading successful lives and reproducing often and why some aren’t doing as well.

Gateway Arch National Park

Bear Cubs: Paws for Action

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

Learn about the history and culture of the Osage Indians of the woodland areas of the Mississippi Valley in the Museum at Gateway Arch National Park Fulfills requirements 1, 2, and 4

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Climate Change at Sleeping Bear Dunes

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The Climate Change program will introduce your students to the ways in which climate change affects the Great Lakes and Sleeping Bear Dunes and what they can do to make positive changes in their communities.

Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve

Bears of Glacier Bay 2: The Scoop on Poop

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

Our "Bears of Glacier Bay" curricula unit is divided into three lesson plans, each taking one class session to complete. They are part of our "Middle School Scientists" series that explore the fascinating research and resources of Glacier Bay National Park.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Lodge for Sale! Beavers at Sleeping Bear Dunes

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Lodges are beaver homes and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is a great place for a beaver to live. Have your students make a for sale flyer for a beaver home at Sleeping Bear.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Water Those? Aquatic Invasive Species at Sleeping Bear

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

The Water Those? program will introduce your students to aquatic invasive species, how they impact our ecosystems, and what we can do to help.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Chat with a Ranger at Sleeping Bear Dunes - All Grades

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

Find out more about Sleeping Bear Dunes, the National Park Service, and what it is like to be a park ranger.

Glacier National Park

It's Not Easy Being Grizz

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

This is an outdoor game illustrating: the seasonal food availability sequence for grizzly bears; the effects of whitebark pine decline; and the grizzly bear's relationship with squirrels.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Snowshoe Field Trip Pre-visit

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

Coming on a snowshoe field trip to Sleeping Bear Dunes? Find out what to expect from a snowshoe visit to Sleeping Bear Dunes, as well as which animals are found in the park and what adaptations they have to survive during the winter season.

Yellowstone National Park

Making Tracks

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will compare the tracks of grizzly bears, wolves and humans and make observations about their similarities and differences.