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Acadia National Park

Bird Data Scientist

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

Become a data scientist and use data to create an evidence-based argument whether humans are impacting migratory patterns of birds.

Fort Donelson National Battlefield

Natural History Collection at FODO

• Type: Online Galleries
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Ground pine found on the park trail. Native plants are helpful to prevent soil erosion and to enrich the soil.

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument

Agate Fossil Beds Native American Collection

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

Join our Education Rangers as we take a tour of the James Cook Collection of Native American artifacts, we will look inside “A window onto Lakota life” here on the Great Plains. We will also explore how the Bison was sacred to the Lakota and we will learn how the animal played an integral part of their daily lives. And talk about the friendship formed between Chief Red Cloud and a local rancher named James Cook.

Devils Postpile National Monument

Climate Science in Focus: Data and Tools

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

Students will use scientific data on streamflow from the Sierra Nevada to analyze snowpack and draw conclusions about the changing climate. Students will be able to predict changes that will occur to the Sierra Nevada snowpack if the climate change continues, and predict the changes that will result on the biosphere due to climate change.

Keweenaw National Historical Park

Commercial and Non-Industrial Occupations Post-Visit Activity 3: Photograph Collection

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

Students will be able to demonstrate their knowledge on photographic documentation and composition by creating a booklet or storyboard.

Exploring Climate Science: Stream Flow Tools and Data

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

In “Exploring Climate Science (Streamflow Tools and Data),” students will use data to draw conclusions about climate change. The students will be able to: 1. Create a double line graph to show the changes in streamflow throughout the year 2. Make two predictions about how climate change may affect stream flows

Cumberland Island National Seashore

Student Weather Journal

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

Students will be able to collect and record their own weather data. Printable journal.

Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site

Test the Waters - Middle School

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

Students explore their connections to water and participate in hands-on field research by collecting water quality data.

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

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Field Scope Citizen Science Projects

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

In partnership with field scope, the park provides teachers and classrooms access to the data collected during citizen science student projects in the park.

Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site

Test the Waters - High School

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

Students explore their connections to water while participating in a worldwide, citizen science initiative - collecting water quality data in the Saugus River.

Acadia National Park

Sound Mapping

• Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students learn that scientists make observations using a variety of senses. Students practice the skill of observation through listening to collect data in their local environment.

National Mall and Memorial Parks

Urban Pools

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

Students will explore the use and management of water in the parks in the District of Columbia are reflections of the enduring and evolving relationship between humans and nature. Students will collect water quality data from at least two of the Mall’s urban pools and compare data with current management plans.

Glacier National Park

Winter-time Temps

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

Students will become aware of temperature variations above the snow and below the snow and its affects on wildlife, by collecting and recording temperature data from a variety of locations.

Denali National Park & Preserve

Snowshoe Hare Population Cycles in Denali

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

This lesson introduces population ecology to students by using real data on snowshoe hares collected in Denali National Park and Preserve. Students will analyze recent population trends and predict future population changes.

Bighorn Sheep

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

Students first play a board game to learn about resources bighorn sheep need and the threats they face. Outside, students investigate why bighorn sheep are no longer seen along a local trail. Students collect data on other animals by examining tracks. They learn about plants bighorns eat and collect data on food availability. Students also play a bighorn trivia game. Back in the classroom, students put clues together to make a claim about the cause of a population decline.

Getting to Know your Forest

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

In this mini unit students will identify an outdoor space with trees that they would like to observe. They will count the amount of live trees and dead trees (snags). They will watch for changes over time and share the data they collect with others.

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.

Devils Postpile National Monument

Climate Science in Focus Field Trip

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

In “Climate Science in Focus (Field Trip),” students have a chance to collect real streamflow data either in a neighborhood stream or at a NPS site. Designed around 9th grade Next Generation Science Standards, it can be easily adapted down for middle school or up for advanced high school classes.

Microorganisms in the Utah Desert

• 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.