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Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Biological Biography

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

Learn more about the plants and animals you can find in Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Students will research an organism and report on its adaptations and connections within its ecosystem.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Biological Indicators

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

Macroinvertebrates can be found in bodies of water buried in sediments and detritus or attached to rocks or plants. They are visible without magnification and can be used by scientists to measure water quality. In this lesson, introduce your students to these organisms and to the use of a dichotomous key. Students will hone basic identification skills to increase the reliability of data they may collect during a visit to Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

Haleakalā National Park

Biological Diversity Field Study

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

At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to: 1. Understand that biodiversity of an ecosystem depends on many interconnected factors and that an effect on one factor can influence all the others. 2. Name three reasons why people should care about the loss of endemic species.

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.

Homestead National Historical Park

Agriculture and Inventions

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

In "Agriculture and Inventions," students research agricultural inventions and describe their impact on agriculture.

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

Inventory + Monitoring Evaluations

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

Students will get to view excavation sites that our paleontologists visit and do an easier version of what our paleontologists do here at the parks. They will virtually tour the excavation pit and 2 petrified stumps.

Thomas Edison National Historical Park

The Invention Factory: Thomas Edison's Laboratories

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

The lesson could be used in teaching units on the industrialization of the United States, the development of science and technology, or social change in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Students will discover how Edison systematized the process of inventing, allowing for the rapid development and production of inventions that improved the lives of millions of people.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Terrestrial Invertebrate Biodiversity Inventory - High School Field Trip

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

The goal of these field trip activities is to help high school students become familiar with terrestrial invertebrates and understand the biodiversity of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This field trip packet includes onsite activities accompanied by a preparation activity and a wrap-up activity.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Terrestrial Invertebrate Biodiversity Inventory - Middle School Field Trip

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

The goal of these field trip activities is to help middle school students become familiar with terrestrial invertebrates and understand the biodiversity of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This field trip packet includes onsite activities accompanied by a preparation activity and a wrap-up activity.

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha (Salmonid Natural History)

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

How does biological evolution account for the diversity and distribution of salmonid species?

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.

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

Tree Phenology Monitoring - High School Field Trip

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

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is using phenology, the study of biological events that change in response to their environment, to investigate the changing climate. This high school field trip packet includes onsite activities along with two preparation activities and two wrap-up activities.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Tree Phenology Monitoring - Middle School Field Trip

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

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is using phenology, the study of biological events that change in response to their environment, to investigate the changing climate. This middle school field trip packet includes onsite activities along with two preparation activities and two wrap-up activities.

Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument

Fossil Teeth: Changing Climates and Evolutionary Responses Preserved in the Fossil Record (Lesson Plan by Geoscientist-in-the-Park Gina Roberti)

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

Students will look at changes in tooth size and shape (morphology) in the fossil record of herbivorous mammals in North America using data from a recent paleontological study. Students will infer factors which caused the observed evolutionary adaptions and link biological adaptation with global climate change and localized habitat change.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Juan's Draft Pick Lesson Plan

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

Whether by pulling a wagon, cart, or saddle bag, animals powered the goods to be traded and transferred to their destination. The fur trade era simply could not have taken place without the aid of horses, mules, and oxen. The lesson examines the pros and cons of using these animals as transportation based on their characteristics and biological needs.

National Park of American Samoa

Enviro Musical Chairs

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

There's a certain mystique about the word “biodiversity” that seems to be associated with images of steamy jungles or wondrous new medicines, but the word more specifically refers to the number of species or 'species richness' of an area. One reason why tropical areas are so fascinating is that they contain the highest numbers of plant and animal species found anywhere on earth.American Samoa sits squarely in the tropics, so we should have a high biological diversity here, but we do and we don't

Cape Lookout National Seashore

Shark Traveling Trunk

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

Sharks are mysterious and misunderstood creatures that have fascinated and frightened people for generations. Through a variety of classroom activities, this traveling trunk will introduce students to the biology and behaviors of these amazing animals.

Cape Lookout National Seashore

Whale Traveling Trunk

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

This traveling trunk will introduce students to the biology and behaviors of these intelligent and interesting creatures. Teachers and students can use the materials and activities in this trunk to actually experience what life would be like as a whale.

Glacier National Park

Always Changing

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

Working in three teams, students will use reference material to create and present a play showing 100 years of change for each forest type.