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Manassas National Battlefield Park

Bridging the Watershed-4th Grade
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Low Bridge, Everybody Down
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Explore the Canal Exploration Center to learn about the history and economic importance of the Ohio & Erie Canal. Learn about this time period as you view a historic canal lock, hike on the Towpath Trail and discover primary sources that provide narratives of life during the canal era.

Acadia National Park

I Notice I Wonder: Waterfall Bridge
  • Type: Other Education Materials
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Acadia's carriage road systems are incredibly unique. Start generating conversation and have students practice "I notice, I Wonder" statements to share observations and skills in communication.

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

The Sound of Buffalo Soldiers! A Musical Bridge to Communities
  • Type: Guest Speakers
  • Grade Levels: Adult Education

How has music influenced your connection to a community? Throughout the history of the United States military, music has been part of the sound experience of soldiers. For the Buffalo Soldiers, music also served as a tool to build a connection to the communities they served.

Bering Land Bridge National Preserve

Virtual Tour of Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Welcome to Bering Land Bridge National Preserve! Join us from the comfort of your own classroom as we explore one of the nation’s most remote national park units. Learn about the rugged and wild landscape of the tundra and what it takes for plants and animals to survive in this challenging environment.

Moores Creek National Battlefield

In the Most Furious Manner: The Battle of Moores Creek Bridge
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This 30 minute program highlights the important features of Moores Creek National Battlefield and takes place from the site of Moores Creek Bridge. It will explain the Loyalist march to the bridge site and the Patriot earthworks.

Moores Creek National Battlefield

What Happened After the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge?
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This ranger-led program highlights why North Carolina is "First in Freedom" by sharing what took place after the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge.

Cane River Creole National Historical Park

Read with a Ranger: Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Read a book with a Park Ranger! Join us in reading Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story written by Ruby Bridges. In this book, Ruby Bridges tells her first-hand account of what it was like to be the first Black student to integrate a segregated school in New Orleans in 1961. The book briefly describes segregation and the obstacles she had to overcome to be able to go to school. Ruby Bridges then describes what her adult life has been like and encourages to be accepting

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Self-Guided Field Trip to Cuyahoga Valley's Station Road Bridge Area
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The Station Road Bridge area is a great place to bring students to see and learn more about Ohio's only national park. From this location, students can see the Cuyahoga River, walk on the historic Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail, and maybe even spot a bald eagle, which are known to nest nearby. Introduce your students to the Cuyahoga Valley through this self-guided field trip.

Acadia National Park

Virtual: Grades 3-5: Carriage Road ABCs: Architects, Bridges, and Carriages!
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Draw, design, and move along as we explore the stories of those who helped engineer, build, and maintain the historic carriage roads and bridges of Acadia. (45 minutes)

Moores Creek National Battlefield

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

The Highland Scots at the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge

Bering Land Bridge National Preserve

Uncovering Beringia: The Lost Continent
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Travel back in time to learn about the animals and landscape of Beringia during the last ice age! Students will join a Park Ranger to explore the role of Beringia and Bering Land Bridge National Preserve in the history of human migration into the Americas.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 9 Historic Site Cards
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This unit introduces the students to seven bridges, buildings and other historic structures that were associated with the National Road in Pennsylvania and are still standing. The historic site cards are for the students to read. These cards allow the students to discover traces of the historic National Road that are still present in the community.

Bering Land Bridge National Preserve

Life in the Arctic
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Join a National Park Service ranger to learn about the tundra, its animals, and what it's like to live in Alaska. In this free virtual program, students will learn how humans, plants, and animals survive in this challenging environment, and why it's important to protect such a unique place.

Bering Land Bridge National Preserve

Erosion: Washing Away the Earth
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Erosion can be a major issue. It is caused by a number of factors, both manmade and natural. The effects of erosion are very evident on Arctic coastal villages that are experiencing storm surges and no longer have the added protection of longer lasting sea ice. Research indicates that both the storm surges and lost of sea ice are the result of climate change.

Death Valley National Park

Landscape Stories Post Trip Activity
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In groups, students use their knowledge and experience from the geology-based field trip to create landscape stories about Death Valley National Park. Students record their stories using a cartoon strip.

Researching Change Over Time in Local Communities
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

By studying change over time in their local community, students will realize that where they live has its own unique history, and different factors contributed to its current state. Students will also understand how to collect and interpret this information and comprehend the value of living people as key information holders in historical research.

Acadia National Park

I Notice, I Wonder: Bar Island
  • Type: Other Education Materials
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Learn about the tidal differences in Acadia with this quick "I notice, I wonder" activity watching the changes at Bar Island.

Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site

Test the Waters - Middle School
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students explore their connections to water and participate in hands-on field research by collecting water quality data.

Acadia National Park

I Notice I Wonder Lesson
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

These ~1-minute non-narrated video clips of Acadia’s resources are designed to be shared with your students for them to generate “I Notice, I Wonder, and I’m Reminded Of” statements.