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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.

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.

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.

Acadia National Park

Virtual: Grades 3-8: Loons!
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The common loon is one of Acadia National Park's most famous avian residents. Come learn about their biology, their behavior, and ways that you can help protect this spectacular species. (1 hour)

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.

Alaska Public Lands

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

This is a great opportunity for your students as a pack to learn more about wolves and their natural way of life. Learn more about these wonderful creatures.

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.

Hot Springs National Park

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

Thermophiles, organisms that survive in extreme heat conditions, are one of the most unique resources found in Hot Springs National Park. Students will use scientific studies and on-site observations to assess the factors that have made Hot Springs’ thermophilic ecosystem a destination for scientists. This specialty program is only available for smaller class sizes. Designed for 7th grade and high school biology lessons.

Olympic National Park

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

This field trip investigates the diversity of plants within Olympic National Park as well as the basics of plant reproduction.

Alaska Public Lands

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

This kit comes loaded with materials to connect your class with the wonders of the loon. With tapes, videos and even a loon costume your class is bound to enjoy this kit.

Alaska Public Lands

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

Teachers and students will have the opportunity to discover the wonders of animal identification through animal tracks. Activities and samples will enhance their experience.

Arches National Park

Field Trip in a Box: Microorganisms
  • Type: Media for Loan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will learn how microorganisms play a vital role in the high desert ecosystem.

Timpanogos Cave National Monument

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

Ask a Ranger provides an opportunity for your classroom to interact with a Timpanogos Cave park ranger through a live and interactive lesson via the Internet. Students will prepare questions ahead of time and spend 30-60 minutes with the ranger discussing Timpanogos Cave geology, biology, conservation and human history, as well as what it's like to be a Park ranger and work for the National Park Service.