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Devils Postpile National Monument

Climate Science in Focus (Climate Connections)

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

In “Climate Science in Focus (Climate Connections),” students have a chance to learn about local climate change studies happening at a NPS site through a virtual visit.

Devils Postpile National Monument

Exploring Climate Science (Climate Connections)

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

In “Exploring Climate Science (Climate Connections),” students have a chance to virtually connect with a park to learn about local climate change and its impacts.

Devils Postpile National Monument

Climate Connections - Climate Science in Focus

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

In “Climate Science in Focus (Climate Connections),” students have a chance to learn about local climate change studies happening at a NPS site through a virtual visit.

Devils Postpile National Monument

Exploring Climate Science: Climate Change

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

In “Exploring Climate Science (Climate Change),” students will explore causes of climate change and discuss impacts on the environment. Students will be able to: List three causes of climate change Describe at least two impacts to the environment caused by climate change

Devils Postpile National Monument

Exploring Climate Science: Weather and Climate

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

In “Exploring Climate Science (Weather and Climate),” students will use tools to collect weather data and discuss the differences between weather and climate. Students will be able to: Compare and contrast weather and climate, providing at least three differences between the two. Use an anemometer and thermometer to collect local weather data

Glacier National Park

Climate Mime-it

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

Students interpret and identify ecological concepts related to climate change, through the use of pantomime.

Devils Postpile National Monument

Climate Science in Focus (Weather versus Climate)

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Discover the difference between weather and climate

Alaska Public Lands

Climate Change Kit

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

This kit provides students with the chance to learn more about climate change and renewable energy through activities and demonstrations. Packed with curriculum and starter kits your students will have a blast learning together.

Yellowstone National Park

Wolverines and Climate Change

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

Students will demonstrate an understanding of specific adaptations that have prepared the pika and wolverine to survive in cool climates with harsh winter conditions. Students will additionally demonstrate an understanding of timescales and evolution, and how due to the increased speed of global temperature rise, climate change can have negative effects on these mammals despite their ability to adapt.

Olympic National Park

Aspect, Treeline, and Climate

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this activity, students will learn about the factors that determine the location of the treeline in different locations in the world. The elevation of treeline is affected by the combined effects of snowpack depth, minimum winter temperatures, aspect, and soil moisture conditions. Treeline varies by latitude, but is also affected by whether it is an arid, temperate, or tropical climate.

National Park of American Samoa

Climate Change: A Warming Planet

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Our world is always changing. Look out your window long enough and you might see the weather change. Look even longer, and you'll see the seasons change. The Earth's climate is changing, too, but in ways that you can't easily see. Round-n-round the Earth goes, where change may happen nobody knows! This program will help students understand the changes occurring in the Earth’s climate, its impact on local ecosystems and help them discover ways to help.

Devils Postpile National Monument

Climate Science in Focus (Evaluations)

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

In “Climate Science in Focus (Evaluations),” students will demonstrate what they’ve learned from the unit by completing a post test evaluation.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Climate: Drought, Seasons, and Health

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

Is climate change new? Josiah Gregg, as a firsthand observer, offers a snapshot of ecological shifts taking place in the 1830s and 1840s within the southern Great Plains. In this lesson students will compare weather averages for cities along the Santa Fe Trail and consider how seasonal patterns affect the migration and survival of human and animal species.

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.

Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument

Climate Change & Bird Range

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Tule Springs Expedition Research Learning Center partners with our local Audubon Society Chapter to participate in the Climate Watch bird survey citizen science project. Citizen scientists across North America report the data they collected during these surveys to help document how bird species are responding to climate change and shifting their ranges. This activity explores how different climate change scenarios may affect bird populations locally. Author: Jake Johnson & Lauren Parry

Devils Postpile National Monument

Exploring Climate Science: Snowpack

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

In this “Exploring Climate Science (Snowpack)” activity, students will define snow water equivalent and make predictions on the effects warming climates could have on snowpack.

Devils Postpile National Monument

Exploring Climate Science (Watershed)

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Rainbow Falls. NPS Photo

Devils Postpile National Monument

Exploring Climate Science: Watersheds

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

In “Exploring Climate Science (Watersheds),” students will explore the local watershed to learn how communities, the region, and state are connected by water. The students will be able to: 1. State the watershed(s) in the area and explain why it is important. 2. Show how the watershed connects their town to others in the area/region

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Climate Change at Sleeping Bear Dunes

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The Climate Change program will introduce your students to the ways in which climate change affects the Great Lakes and Sleeping Bear Dunes and what they can do to make positive changes in their communities.

Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument

Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Understanding the effects of climate change in the past, present, and future. Learn how desert wetlands evolved over time.