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Buffalo National River
Compass Course - Using a Compass
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson was designed to help students understand how to use navigation tools especially as they pertain to exploring the outdoors.
Acadia National Park
Compass Use Adventure
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to navigate through at least 5 landmarks in the outdoor campus using the directional signals of a compass rose. The affective goal of this activity is to have the students get outside and navigate through their natural world. I want them to see the importance of using a compass instead of just understanding how to read NSEW on google maps.
Acadia National Park
Compass Harbor Scavenger Hunt
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Compass Harbor Scavenger Hunt. Explore the foundation of the house of George Dorr and imagine his life at Old Farm.
Wind Cave National Park
Surveying into the darkness
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
A mock cave survey where students use compasses to navigate along a specific path.
Prince William Forest Park
Introduction to Basic Orienteering
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Learn the basics of using a map and compass for navigation, and put that knowledge to work by finding fixed points in the forest. This activity can be ranger guided or self guided and depending on the orienteering course chosen, can last from 1.5 hours to a full day.
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park
Abe’s Childhood Adventures
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Lincoln's character traits, such as honesty, perseverance, and compassion shaped the ways he influenced history. Meets Kentucky K-2nd grade reading standards. This lesson was created by Kentucky teachers as a part of the History and Science Explore Project.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Geography: Navigation and Isolation on the Great Plains
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Getting lost in unfamiliar surroundings is a common human experience. In this lesson students will take on the role of navigator and mapmaker to pinpoint a location. By doing so, students will recognize that migration across the Great Plains landscape in the 1830s and 1840s required a unique set of survival skills and navigational tools.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This in-class presentation explores the tools a student needs to hike safely in the desert ecosystem. Students learn their directions, things to bring with them, and what to do if they get lost.
President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site
Road Trip
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Working independently or as a group, students will be given a list of resources, a map of the United States depicting the locations of all National Park Service sites (as of 2016), a math compass, Internet access (for a Web quest), a graphic organizer (for optional use) and scratch paper for computations.
Acadia National Park
"Eastings and Northings" A Mapping Activity
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The lesson builds up slowly to read Map Grid References for later learning and practice orienteering. Orienteering is a navigation and sport activity that incorporates walking or jogging, determining directions, and map reading. The object of the activity is to use a map and compass to locate specific points in each area.
Niobrara National Scenic River
Cows in the Campground - Pre-Visit Writing Activity
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will read about the community of the Niobrara Valley prior to their field trip to develop an understanding of the significance of development and its co-existence with preservation of a natural resource. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the interrelationships contained in the river system by writing a descriptive essay based on an essay prompt of their choice.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Intercultural Kinship
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail put him in contact with a variety of southwestern cultures. This lesson offers a chance to reflect on how family unions across cultures both helped and hindered successful operation of the Bent, St. Vrain, & Co. during the 1840s.
Gateway Arch National Park
Extreme Rangers Summer Camp
- Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Do you have what it takes to be an extreme Ranger? Put your outdoor adventure skills to the test finding your way by compass, build a shelter, make your own survival fishing pole and see if you can catch the big one. Paddle your way on float trip. Put all your skills together on an overnight camp out at one of our Missouri State parks.
Hopewell Culture National Historical Park
Travel or Trade?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
People of the Hopewell culture are known for building gigantic geometric earthworks. They also created spiritually charged artwork out of beautiful exotic materials sourced from all over the North American continent. How did these materials get to South-Central Ohio? Gather your students and plenty of supplies into your canoe and let’s explore the fascinating answer!