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Fort Donelson National Battlefield

Life as a Civil War Sailor in the US Navy

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Life of a Civil War Sailor on the City-Series Ironclads

Gettysburg National Military Park

Join the Army: The Life of a Civil War Soldier

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

The Civil War soldier’s life was full of hardships, sacrifices, and challenges. This student education program offers a ninety-minute long hands-on program especially for school-age children in Grades 3-6 that will encourage further study of American history and the Civil War.

Civil War to Civil Rights Trading Cards

• Type: Online Galleries
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Collect stories about the Civil War and civil rights! The National Park Service is offering more than 500 trading cards to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

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.

Fort Scott National Historic Site

Life on The Frontier

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

The purpose of this program is to acquaint the students with life at Fort Scott in the 1840s.

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

Life of a Soldier

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

Life for a soldier of the Atlanta Campaign wasn't easy! This guided program allows students to experience various aspects of that life with the help of a ranger or living historian.

Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

Life in the Extreme

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Craters of the Moon is one of the harshest environments on earth! Despite these extreme conditions, the park is home to a wide diversity of plant and animal species. During their field trip, students will take measurements in the field, analyze their data, and develop hypotheses about how different micro-environments affect the distribution of plants and animals in the park.

Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

Web of Life

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students learn about the complexity of life and interrelationships between living things by constructing a Craters food web.

Rocky Mountain National Park

Life on the Edge

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

The alpine ecosystem of Rocky Mountain National Park is a unique yet fragile place. Join a ranger in discovering common threats to pikas, ptarmigan, and plants in the "land above the trees". Students will research various threats to this community and apply their knowledge to better understand their local communities.

Glacier National Park

The Web of Life

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

Students will be able to illustrate the interrelationships of W-GIPP animals and plants through the weaving of a simple web.

Glacier National Park

Life in a Log

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

The students will investigate decomposers in a rotting log, and discover some of the organisms living there.

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Web of Life

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

This lesson will help students visualize the interconnections found within the natural world. They will learn the concepts of food chains and food webs, and construct their own food web using the provided worksheet of plants and animals found in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Tumacácori National Historical Park

Life at Tumacácori

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

Students will investigate how mission life differed from traditional O’odham village life. Did mission children go to school? What did they eat? How does construction of a traditional O’odham home compare to a mission church built from mud? Learn why, when, where and how, as you tour the park’s orchard, garden, and church with a ranger. Students will practice using a traditional mano and metate and learn how to “mud” an O’odham home.

Valley Forge National Historical Park

Soldier Life

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

Learn about Valley Forge through hands-on interactive activities exploring the diversity, sacrifice, and perseverance of the Valley Forge encampment's participants. Park rangers dressed in period clothing will take students on an exploration of the landscape, people, and history of Valley Forge.

Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks

A Giant's Life

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Gaze upon the enormity and grandeur of a Giant Sequoia and ask yourself, How does such an enormous living thing grow from soil less than eight feet deep? Discover the magic of photosynthesis, explore the life cycle of the giant sequoias, and experience hiking among the largest trees in the world.

Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks

Life in the Balance

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

How do squirrels help Giant Sequoias grow? Do fires hurt or help trees? How does a snowflake at the top of a mountain provide water to oranges in the valley below? Explore the community of living and nonliving things in a Giant Sequoia grove and learn what part you play in the forest ecosystem.

Arches National Park

Life Cycles

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students explore plant changes by performing a play depicting the life cycle of a wildflower through the seasons. They explore life cycles of frogs and toads, along the way discovering the difference between them. Students learn about insect metamorphosis, focusing on moths and butterflies, and discover the surprising world of insect galls.

Food for Life

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

Although at first glance the desert may seem to have little in the way of wildlife, it actually contains large, diverse populations. On this field trip, students will take a quarter-mile nature walk combined with directed science exploration to experience the Mojave Desert as one great big giant food bowl. Pre and post-visit activities are included.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Mountain Life

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Cane River Creole National Historical Park

Louisiana Life

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

A modern twist on a historic 1860s game! In this modified Game of Life students will discover information about Louisiana with our game board, using the traditional 1860s rules as they compete to win. Everyone is really a winner, because all players will enrich their knowledge of Louisiana!