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Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

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

Students learn about living and nonliving parts of ecosystems through one worksheet and two activities.

Friendship Hill National Historic Site

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

In this guided activity park rangers pretend they have discovered a worn wooden crate in the attic of the old stone house. Inside they find items belonging to a one time resident of Friendship Hill, Albert Gallatin. Students become historians as they attempt to discover what the objects are and what they tell us about Gallatin and his family.

Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

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

Create life cycles with your students to view the life cycle of the Craters of the Moon dwarf buckwheat, a plant that is unique to the cinder flats at Craters of the Moon.

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

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

This is a great model to look at the impact craters left behind by an asteroid. Models like this can help us to visualize how the craters on the moon were also formed.

Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

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

The Student Journal is intended to focus the students' learning while they explore Craters of the Moon. It will help to reinforce the knowledge they have already gained through their classroom study of Craters geology, cultural history, and ecology. Upon returning to the school, the teacher can instruct the students to refer to their Journal notes for further Craters exploration.

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.

Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

Adapting to an Extreme Environment
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students match Craters plant adaptations to different habitat types and use their imaginations to create a species well adapted to a habitat of their design.

Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

Walking on the Moon
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

These activities include simple timing and math which will allow students to compare their walking velocity at school to their pace at Craters of the Moon and on the lunar surface.

Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

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

After the field trip to Craters, students use their field notebooks and knowledge they have gained through pre-trip activities to write two papers.

Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

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

Craters of the Moon National Monument is an exceptional area to study volcanic geology and the plants and animals native to Idaho's high desert. A field trip to Craters of the Moon allows students to engage first-hand with this volcanic landscape hiking up, around, and in volcanoes, walking through some of the youngest lava flows in the lower 48 states, and exploring one of our lava tube caves.

Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

Prepare For Cold Air: SnowSchool Pre-visit Activity
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will conduct experiments and observe the differences in insulation values for a variety of materials. Students will discover factors that influence winter survival for animals and learn how to dress for an outdoor snowshoe hike at Craters of the Moon.

Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

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

Students will be able to visualize the times of important evolutionary events in relation to geological and cultural history. Students will be able to name some of the animals that became extinct at Craters of the Moon. Students will use their imaginations to forecast future events and designate them on a timeline.

Water Hunt Maze Activity
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this activity, students will play a maze game to help them understand how water was collected in the past and the different methods of water collection. In addition to the activity materials provided, students will need access to two six-sided dice.

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.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

Survival of the Fittest (3rd Grade)
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Standing 400 feet above the Kīlauea Iki crater down to the depths of a 550 year old lava tube, students explore and understand the ecosystem of Hawaii's natural rainforest. Through this field trip, they will understand how these plants and animals made their way over vast oceans, and how they began to adapt to elements and terrain presented to them upon arrival. The students will begin to gain a deeper sense of appreciation for the environment in which they live.

Walnut Canyon National Monument

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

The Bean Lab

Haleakalā National Park

Habitat
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

In this lesson, haumana (students) will learn about the geology, plate tectonics, hot spots, and volcanoes such as Mt. Saint Helens, Kīlauea and Haleakalā, Pele and Maui and how their moʻolelo relates to geology.

Haleakalā National Park

Every Kid Outdoors
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this lesson, haumāna (students) will learn about the Jr. Ranger program and the Every Kid Outdoors program that allows 4th graders and their family and friends into federal lands, parks and waterways for free. At the end of the program haumāna will earn their Every Kid Outdoors passes.

Haleakalā National Park

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

Pāhoehoe lava rock is one of many rock formations made by volcanoes. Rocks can show us all kinds of information like types of volcanoes and kinds of lava flowed, where lava flowed and whether lava cooled down fast or slow. Geology rocks!

Haleakalā National Park

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

At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to determine how Haleakalā National Park protects cultural and natural resources and how the students can help protect them too.