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Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park
School Water Budget Kit
- Type: Science Labs
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The following activities replace the traditional way of teaching the water cycle by identifying how surfaces in the schoolyard influence the pathways water takes after a precipitation event. By exploring the water cycle as it occurs at their school, the learning becomes place-based and relevant to the culture of the school.
Everglades National Park
"The Carbon Budget" Climate Change: 4-6th Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students use math, visual and auditory techniques to demonstrate that the amount of carbon being added to the atmosphere by humans is more than what the planet is removing. This activity can use different learning styles to demonstrate the 2008 global carbon budget. Show that the imbalance of a yearly extra four billion tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is the fundamental cause of climate change.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Examine how changing military technology and U.S. budget debates influenced the development of Fort Hancock and the U.S. coastal defense system.
Friendship Hill National Historic Site
Field Trip: Secretary of the Treasury Board Game
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This guided program has the student learn about the federal budget during Gallatin’s term as Secretary of the Treasury. They participate in a board game with the park ranger.
Friendship Hill National Historic Site
Albert Gallatin: A Most Astonishing Man - Gallatin as Secretary of the Treasury - Lesson 6
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Gallatin moved into the political spotlight when he became Secretary of the Treasury. Students will read about this part of Gallatin’s career. Then using an activity sheet the students will have to make some tough choices to develop the United States budget.
Cane River Creole National Historical Park
The Sharecroppers, Tenant Farmers, and Day Laborers
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this interactive lesson plan, students will explore the economic hardships and challenges for those who worked as sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and day laborers. Student groups will each follow the life of one person for a year - tracking their expenditures, and balancing their budget at the end of the season.
President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site
Road Trip
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Working independently or as a group, students will be given a list of resources, a map of the United States depicting the locations of all National Park Service sites (as of 2016), a math compass, Internet access (for a Web quest), a graphic organizer (for optional use) and scratch paper for computations.
Gettysburg National Military Park
Best Field Trip Ever! Field Trip Planner: Gettysburg National Military Park
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
We are pleased to offer this Field Trip Planner for visiting Gettysburg National Military Park. We want this publication to help you make the best choices for your field trip and your students – based on the age, size and budget of your group, as well as the amount of time that you have to spend at Gettysburg. In short, we want to help you plan the best field trip ever!
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Phenology is an area of ecology that investigates the seasonal rhythms of plants and animals. When do the leaves begin to bud? When do the birds return in the spring? By studying these patterns students can learn about seasons and climate patterns over time. Photo by Jacob Phillipson, FOA
Stones River National Battlefield
Better Know a Regiment
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Teachers and students will accompany a ranger by bus or foot in search of the path taken by ancestral Civil War regiments during the Battle of Stones River. Prior research by the students using primary sources and historical documents will allow them to actively participate in the program, not just observe. Students will learn the history of their ancestors, the importance of the Battle of Stones River, and experience firsthand a small part of what the soldiers did more than 150 years ago.