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Glacier National Park
Carbon Cycle Capers
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to identify the cyclical relationship between carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and plants on earth which trap and store carbon. This is a fast-moving game of tag which pits the “trees” against the “CO2 molecules”.
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.
Everglades National Park
"Algae: It Feeds, Kills and Dies" Plant Activities: 4-6th Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Our "Plant" unit is broken into six lesson plans, each taking from 20 minutes to several class periods to complete, and targeted mainly at 4th-6th grade students. A class needn't complete every lesson in the unit, though some lessons do refer to one another and are better done in sequence. However, each lesson comes with its own set of objectives and resources.
National Park of American Samoa
Coral Reefs: Ecosystems Dissolving
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Corals face in our modern world, a great threat due to a projected change in water chemistry in the ocean due to global warming. Just as carbon dioxide (the main greenhouse gas causing global warming) is increasing in the air, it also increases in seawater in its dissolved form. That makes seawater more acidic which, in turn, may slow the rate at which corals build their calcium carbonate skeletons.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
1963 Plymouth car advertisement.
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
Make Your Own Fossils
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Many of the fossils found in the paper shales of the Florissant Formation formed through a process called carbonization. Students will get the chance to make compressions of plants in this activity and may use paint to mimic the carbonization process.
Wind Cave National Park
Cave Cracks
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
A "cool" demonstration using a block of ice to simulate carbonic acid dissolving away a cave.
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students explore how matter moves through the Earth’s ecosystems, by focusing on carbon. In the classroom, they role play how carbon moves through Earth’s systems. On the field trip, they simulate food chains and photosynthesis. They examine decomposers and test the properties of soil crusts.
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
Climate Change Scavenger Hunt
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson plan is park specific for Florissant Fossil Beds NM, but can be adjusted. This lesson plan is design to send the students/participants on a hunt to find the ways we are trying to reduce our carbon footprint around the monument.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This is a GM Delco Transistorized "Hybrid" (vacuum tubes and transistors) radio model 3725156, which was first offered as an option on the 1956 Chevrolet Corvette car models. Photo by Historianbuff, Wikimedia.
Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical Park
Climate Change in Vermont: Measuring Predicted Impacts
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
In the "Emerging Science" episode (VT Public Television) “Climate Change: A Northeast Primer,” students are introduced to present-day and potential future impacts of climate change on Vermont. Through these activities, students plan ways to measure climate change, explore climate change data, and use phenology to detect a species’ response to climate change.
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
LESSON 11: OD POR ODELIA
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Od Por Odelia was written by LeRoy Etienne as an ode to his mother who told him this story. In the tale an old man sells her rotten bananas. But dishonest conduct brings bad luck, and the old man dies soon thereafter.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
A picture of a statue at Kelly Ingram Park called The Four Spirits. This statue honors the lives of the 4 girls who died in the dynamite blast at 16th Street Baptist Church on September 15, 1963. Photo courtesy of the Alabama Tourism Department, Chris Granger (photographer).
Fort Necessity National Battlefield
Traveling the National Road: Unit 6 Decline and Rebirth of the National Road
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This unit covers the decline and rebirth the National Road, teaching the students about how railroads ended the National Road and how bicycles and cars helped it come back. It includes background information for the teacher, a student reading and two student activities: A Poem and a Riddle About the National Road and Picture Matching on the National Road.
Gateway Arch National Park
Tort Liability: Franke v. City of St. Louis
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Frederick Franke was injured in St. Louis when part of a building fell on his head as he was walking. Tragically, he died as a result of his injuries. His mother, Julia Franke, sued the owner of the building and the City of St. Louis for damages. This case was heard in 1888 in the St. Louis Courthouse (the Old Courthouse). Students will reenact the case and hear from all sides.
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
Death Traps
- Type: Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This scripted slideshow for teachers describes the process by which animals have died and become fossilized in waterholes, influenced by a severe drought. It compares two sites, separated by 13 million years: Agate Fossil Beds and the Badlands. It is designed to teach students the principles relating to the behavior, habitat and survival of living animals; as well as scientific study of past life forms known as fossils; and severe climatic events.
Eisenhower National Historic Site
Ike and the Men of D-Day (Virtual Program)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Explore the "Great Crusade" with General Eisenhower and the Men of D-Day in this virtual education program. Students will discover the events of D-Day through the leadership principles of General Eisenhower and the sacrifices of real soldiers who fought and died on D-Day. This program gives students a chance to examine primary source documents and research real D-Day casualties who are buried in Gettysburg National Cemetery.