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Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve
From Core to Crust
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students act out different parts of the Earth and then build models of the Earth showing its layers.
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Geology Lesson 2. Global building blocks
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Rocks and minerals are the building blocks of the Earth Crust. Learning how to identify the main types of rocks and their minerals will help students understand the geology of the Guadalupes and how a beautiful reef can transform into a mountain.
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students explore how matter moves through the Earth’s ecosystems, by focusing on carbon. In the classroom, they role play how carbon moves through Earth’s systems. On the field trip, they simulate food chains and photosynthesis. They examine decomposers and test the properties of soil crusts.
Arches National Park
Moving Rocks
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students explore how weathering and erosion form the landforms seen at Arches National Park.
Arches National Park
Field Trip in a Box: Microorganisms
- Type: Media for Loan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will learn how microorganisms play a vital role in the high desert ecosystem.
Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve
Hot Spot
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students learn about the Mantle Plume Theory, plate tectonics, and Idaho geography by experimenting with a map of Idaho.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
On this field trip, students collect and examine data to understand how availability of resources affects populations of microorganisms in the desert. Students observe desert potholes and learn about strategies organisms use to survive in these diminishing ecosystems. Students also examine desert lichens to see how the orientation of rocks affects a lichen’s ability to thrive.