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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.

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

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.

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

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.

Denali National Park & Preserve

Climate Change and Dog Sledding in Denali

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

This lesson plan explores the impacts of Denali’s changing climate on the northern tradition of dog mushing. Students will have an opportunity to practice reading graphs and analyzing trends in real climate data collected in Denali National Park and Preserve.

Everglades National Park

Sea Level Rise: Climate Change

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

1. Show what happens to sea level when ice sheets melt. 2. Show what happens to sea level when icebergs melt. 3. Connect sea level changes in Miami to icesheets melting. 4. Explain that sea level changes are caused by melting/freezing of ice sheets in Antarctica/Greenland. 5. Show that communities in Florida will be affected by sea level rise. 6. Realize that South Florida has been under water many times in the geologic past. 7. Discuss ways communities can mitigate/adapt to sea level rise.

Gateway National Recreation Area

Investigating Bird Migration and Climate Change

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

What makes Jamaica Bay such an important place for birds during migration? How will climate change impact the refuge? How can we maintain the refuge for generations to come?

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.

Fire Island National Seashore

Considering Climate Change: Fire Island and Storms

• Type: Science Labs
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This science lab explores the impacts of Hurricane Sandy - the history-making 2012 storm - on the natural resources of Fire Island, and challenges students to consider the effects of climate change that are likely to occur close to home. It is an inquiry-based lab with pre-labs, activities, and homework designed to increase understanding of climate change.

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

"Greenhouse Gasses" Climate Change: 4-6th Grade

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

This is an active, running game. Students will be able to show how infra-red radiation is trapped by greenhouse gasses. Students will understand what happens to the temperature of the planet if more greenhouse gasses are put into the atmosphere.

Everglades National Park

"Sea Level Rise" Climate Change: 4-6 Grade

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

Using props, ice, building dioramas, maps and art, students will see how sea level rise is caused by melting ice-sheets (not by melting ice-bergs).

Shenandoah National Park

6th-8th Grade | Shenandoah Salamander: Climate Change Casualty or Survivor?

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

The Shenandoah salamander is an endangered species found only on a few rocky slopes within Shenandoah National Park. Its survival is being threatened by changing climate and habitat competition from the more common red-backed salamander. Students will conduct field research on the red-backed salamander to compare the two salamander species’ habitat requirements and determine how climate change and habitat competition are impacting the survival.

Acadia National Park

Virtual: Grades 6-8: Tracking Acadia’s Seasons – Climate Change & Phenology

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

Students will learn about phenology and why it’s important in helping us understand interrelationships of organisms. We will explore seasonal/cyclic changes of plants and animals and the impacts related to climate change while gaining exposure to the concept of citizen science. (45 minutes)

Shenandoah National Park

9th-12th Grade | Exploring Earth Science: The Shenandoah Salamander and Climate Change

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

The Shenandoah salamander is an endangered species found only on a few rocky slopes within Shenandoah National Park. Its survival is being threatened by changing climate and habitat competition from the more common red-backed salamander. Students will conduct field research on the red-backed salamander to compare the two salamander species’ habitat requirements and determine how climate change and habitat competition are impacting the survival.

Shenandoah National Park

6th-8th Grade | Virtual Shenandoah Salamander: Climate Change Casualty or Survivor?

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

The Shenandoah salamander is an endangered species found only on a few rocky slopes within Shenandoah National Park. Its survival is being threatened by changing climate and habitat competition from the more common red-backed salamander. Students will virtually explore and research to determine how climate change and habitat competition could be impacting the survival of the Shenandoah salamander. 60 minutes