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Cape Cod National Seashore
Beaches in Motion - Coastal Vulnerability
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This Earth Science lesson includes classroom materials, field trip activities and a post assessment activity. The classroom lessons include Powerpoints, readings and activities to increase understanding of coastal processes. The beach activities offer place –based learning to observe and measure conditions to evaluate the vulnerability of a beach to erosion. The post assessment activity requires students to use a model to demonstrate a beaches response to different climate
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Salem, Slavery, and the Sacred Cod
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
New England has deep historic connections to the slave societies in the West Indies (Caribbean). This lesson explores primary sources that implicate Massachusetts merchant families in the Atlantic slave economy.
Cape Lookout National Seashore
Cape Lookout Lighthouse
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Through hands-on activities and a field trip to the national seashore, fourth grade students will discover the history of the Cape Lookout lighthouse and of the people who dedicated their lives to protecting sailors from the dangers of the Lookout Shoals. This program is designed to engage students in learning North Carolina coastal area history; some activities require reading and writing skills, while others involve physical activity.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The house holds the Penniman family's written records and artifact collections, which provide glimpses of the places and people that the family visited on their whaling voyages. Theirs is a true life whaling story representative of hundreds of other whaling captains and their families that traveled the globe to pursue whale fishery.
Cape Lookout National Seashore
Cape Lookout Lighthouse Traveling Trunk
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This traveling trunk will teach students about this important aspect of our maritime history. Through journals, hands-on artifacts, and classroom activities, your class can experience some of the daily activities of a lighthouse keeper.
Niobrara National Scenic River
Cows in the Campground - Pre-Visit Writing Activity
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will read about the community of the Niobrara Valley prior to their field trip to develop an understanding of the significance of development and its co-existence with preservation of a natural resource. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the interrelationships contained in the river system by writing a descriptive essay based on an essay prompt of their choice.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Intercultural Kinship
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail put him in contact with a variety of southwestern cultures. This lesson offers a chance to reflect on how family unions across cultures both helped and hindered successful operation of the Bent, St. Vrain, & Co. during the 1840s.
Cape Lookout National Seashore
Life on the Outer Banks: 4th Grade
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Through this field trip, students will uncover the history of the the Cape Lookout Lighthouse and view the island from the eyes of a keeper. They can also take a hands-on look into the flora and fauna that have learned to survive in this harsh environment. This field trip guide includes science, math, and Social Studies pre, onsite, and post-visit activities.
Prince William Forest Park
Hike to the Cabin Branch Pyrite Mine
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn the history of the park's iron pyrite mine on this moderate, two mile hike that lasts around two hours. Rangers will hike with students to the old mine site, and give students the opportunity to learn about the park's mine reclamation efforts, stroll along a boardwalk, and see several existing foundations and capped off mine shafts.