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Acadia National Park

Botany for Elementary Students

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

Students will make observations of the nature found on their school grounds in order to use specific and detailed language to describe specimens.

Grand Canyon National Park

Women in Science at Grand Canyon

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

Women in science have made history studying and learning amongst the canyon walls. Learn observation and botany skills with these trailblazing women.

Boston's Arnold Arboretum: A Place for Study and Recreation

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

The lesson can be used in teaching units on late 19th-century urban expansion, especially as influenced by immigration and the Industrial Revolution. It also could form the core of an interdisciplinary unit when used in conjunction with lessons on the Romantic and Transcendentalist movements and lessons on botany.

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.

Glacier National Park

⁠Forest Communities

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

Students collect conifer tree needles and cones (not in the national park but from locations where it is permissible) and make displays from them. They identify trees and take note of where their samples were collected.

Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area

Plants Three-Touch Field Trip Model

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

There are over 1,500 different plant species found within Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Most plants, even 100-foot tall hemlock trees, start out as small seeds. In this lesson, students will think like a botanists as they explore, observe, and discover how plants grow, how to identify different species, and how phenology is altered as result of climate change. Pre and post visit activities and supplementary materials.