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Colorado National Monument

Rocky Rangers: Elementary Earth Science

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

Topics: Erosion & Natural Disasters, Fossils, Rock Cycle, Rock Types | This program explores elementary earth science standards through four station rotation activities that model the rock cycle.

Devils Postpile National Monument

Climate Science in Focus: Earth as a System

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

Students will learn about the four Earth systems and how they are connected. Students will be able to: 1. Explain the Earth as a system of interconnected parts 2. Properly define and use Earth science vocabulary

Shenandoah National Park

7th-12th Grade | Exploring Earth Science

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

This curriculum has 5 (five) teacher-led lesson plans that provide in-depth opportunities to study different earth science processes and concepts. The lessons include pre-visit and post-visit classroom activities as well as on-site activity descriptions, maps, and worksheets for the park field trip. The lesson that is ranger-led can be viewed on the ranger-led field trips page.

Colorado National Monument

How Rock Layers Work: Middle School Earth Science

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

Topics: Stratigraphy (Rock Layers), Mapping, Rock Cycle, Geologic Time | Students will explore why rocks form layers, investigate how they're arranged across a landscape, navigate the rock cycle's role, and start to comprehend deep time.

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

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

• Type: Distance Learning
• 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. Students will virtually explore and research to determine how climate change and habitat competition could be impacting the survival of the Shenandoah salamander. Students will collaborate and present potential survival plans for the species. Two 60 minute sessions

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Science on the Prairie

• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In these lesson plans, students will perform scientific research on the prairie to learn of the importance of grasshoppers, fire, and aquatic invertebrates are to the prairie

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Environmental Prairie Science

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

Students conduct a miniature scientific experiment and learn about prairie ecosystems through games and activities.

Denali National Park & Preserve

The Science of Sled Dogs

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

Did you know that park rangers use sled dogs to perform winter work in Denali National Park and Preserve? But why? Join us to learn about why these amazing animals are perfectly adapted to a cold, subarctic environment. Take a deeper dive into what makes the tails, fur, feet, and dispositions of Denali’s sled dogs so good for their snowy, hard work!

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Introduction to Citizen Science

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

Citizen Science is the involvement of everyday people in making scientific observations of the world around us. These observations address real world problems and contribute to scientific research projects. Citizen Science initiatives provide opportunities for the public to collect data in the field and report findings to databases used by professional scientists. Introduce your students to this growing field, in which amateur scientists can contribute meaningful observations to science.

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

Earth's Layers

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

Students will create a play dough model of the Earth's layers. They will then cut it in half to observe the layers in cross section to see how the planet is structured. To end they will use a clear straw to take a "core" sample to understand how scientists observe the upper layers of Earth.

Earth Cookies

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

Students prepare cookies the day before the activity. Students then compare and contrast different types of cookies and igneous rocks and classify them according to their structural make-up and ingredient composition.

Mount Rainier National Park

Earth Blocks

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This activity provides a glimpse into the methods used by geologists as they study the rocky layers at Mount Rainier. Students manipulate "Earth Blocks" into the likely sequences observed at Mount Rainier, and practice their logic skills as they employ the Law of Superposition.

Devils Postpile National Monument

Climate Science in Focus (Evaluations)

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

In “Climate Science in Focus (Evaluations),” students will demonstrate what they’ve learned from the unit by completing a post test evaluation.

Devils Postpile National Monument

Exploring Climate Science: Snowpack

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

In this “Exploring Climate Science (Snowpack)” activity, students will define snow water equivalent and make predictions on the effects warming climates could have on snowpack.

Devils Postpile National Monument

Exploring Climate Science (Watershed)

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

Rainbow Falls. NPS Photo

Grand Canyon National Park

Women in Science at Grand Canyon

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

Women in science have made history studying and learning amongst the canyon walls. Learn observation and botany skills with these trailblazing women.

Devils Postpile National Monument

Exploring Climate Science: Watersheds

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

In “Exploring Climate Science (Watersheds),” students will explore the local watershed to learn how communities, the region, and state are connected by water. The students will be able to: 1. State the watershed(s) in the area and explain why it is important. 2. Show how the watershed connects their town to others in the area/region

Arches National Park

Physical Features of the Earth

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

At a field trip site, students examine a limestone layer to find fossils and make clay models to reenact movement along a local fault. Students hike through three rock layers to observe how the characteristics of rocks produce arches.

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.