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Scrubbing Your Water Clean!
Clean Shore Corps
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will perform a trash survey in their own neighborhood, then one at the beach at Gateway. After comparing the results of the two surveys, students will identify which trash is the most prevalent, and come up with ways to reduce the trash. Rangers will provide lesson plans and equipment for the beach pick up. Please note that this program requires transportation between two points within the park.
The Legacy of the Homestead Act
Homestead Act Paperwork
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In "Homestead Act Paperwork," students analyze primary sources to discover the sequence of forms involved in claiming land under the Homestead Act. The Homestead Act and President Lincoln unit is broken up into five lesson plans, taking 45-50 minutes to complete, targeting sixth through eighth grade students. A class does not have to complete every lesson in the unit - each lesson comes with its own set of objectives and resources. This is lesson 2 of the unit.
The Homestead Act of 1862 (TT)
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The trunk includes curriculum materials, books, documents, case files and a DVD that can be integrated into history, social studies, reading, and language arts curriculum. Additionally, the curriculum materials include student station sheets, so students can rotate stations without the teacher having to repeat instructions.
A Balancing Act: Delaware and the Constitution
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will participate in and understand the legislative process through participating in an interactive program at The Old State House based on the process of passing a law though the branches of government. This program takes place around The Dover Green.
Learning about the Homestead Act
Protecting the Water
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This program explores the ways that Hot Springs National Park protects the natural water cycle and harnesses the water for human use. Students will explore different challenges from habitat protection to engineering that the park faces in protecting the 143-degree thermal water for public use. Designed for 5th and 6th grade Earth Science and Engineering. Advanced programs may be used for High School programs.
The Work of Water
Is the Water Safe?
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
A brief student activity to help students realize that taste and smell aren't always good indicators of pollution.
Water Cycle
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students hear a story and dance to a water cycle music video. While visiting a wetlands ecosystem they act out the process of erosion in different environments, and participate in a relay where they pretend to be agents of evaporation and precipitation. Students imagine they experience the water cycle first hand and write a poem about it. Afterwards, each student creates a regional drawing of the water cycle.
What’s in the Water?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Determine effects people have on the water in the environment and how to protect this necessary natural resource. Meets Kentucky 3rd-5th grade science standards. This lesson was created by Kentucky teachers as a part of the History and Science Explore Project.
What's in the Water?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Water quality is measured using many physical, chemical, and biological assessments. In this lesson, introduce your students to five water chemistry tests. Students will become familiar with pH, nitrates, phosphates, dissolved oxygen and turbidity and their relationship to the Cuyahoga River Watershed. They will begin to understand acceptable test value ranges, make connections between water quality and the biological community and become familiar with the causes of poor water quality.
The Homestead Act of 1862 (K-2)
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

The trunk includes curriculum materials, books, and photos that can be integrated into history, social studies, art, reading, and language arts curriculum. Additionally, the curriculum materials include student station sheets, so students can rotate stations without the teacher having to repeat instructions.
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

The trunk includes curriculum materials, books, documents and a DVD that can be integrated into history, social studies, reading, and language arts curriculum. Additionally, the curriculum materials include student station sheets, so students can rotate stations without the teacher having to repeat instructions.
The Homestead Act of 1862 (6th - 8th)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The Homestead Act of 1862 impacted the United States in numerous ways. In this virtual lesson a Park Ranger will talk about how the Homestead Act of 1862 populated the West and the needs of those settling. Discussion includes how the United States acquired the land given away and the specific requirements to claim one's free land.
"The Water Watch" Water: 4-6 Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The student will be able to: a) list two reasons why water conservation is necessary for the preservation of the Everglades, b) list two ways in which they can increase community involvement in water conservation, and c) produce a petition which lists ways to conserve water and get at least one hundred signatures on their petition.
"Water Poetry" Water: 4-6 Grade
Infiltrating the Water Cycle
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Two demonstrations to introduce students to the water cycle and the idea of infiltration.