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Glacier National Park

Eco-enrichers

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

Students evaluate the importance of soil as well as plant and animal matter as contributors to soil through observing earthworms decompose composting materials.

Gateway Arch National Park

ECO Rangers Summer Camp

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

Explore what lives in our lakes, ponds, streams, forests, and prairie lands. Do the same macros live in the creeks and ponds? What birds and animals live in the prairie lands vs woodlands? Fish the lakes and rivers, fine tune your archery marksmanship, net for macros in ponds, and search for the birds in our Missouri’s public lands.

Olympic National Park

Ecosystem Olympic

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Bring Olympic National Park's ecosystems into your classroom!

Rocky Mountain National Park

Ecosystem Explorers

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

Due to changes in elevation, precipitation, and temperature within Rocky Mountain National Park, the ecosystems found here are extremely diverse. Join an education ranger and become ecosystem explorers on a mission to uncover the biodiversity found in each ecosystem! Students will research one of Rocky's four ecosystems before connecting with an education ranger and will present their findings during the live program. Rangers will elaborate on each ecosystem, showing videos

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.

Kenai Fjords National Park

Fabulous Fjord Ecosystem

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

Fjord estuary ecosystems only exists in 6 places around the world! Students will explore this unique environment, observe the plants and animals that thrive here and consider the interconnected systems that maintain its delicate balance. This program discusses the transfer of energy within food webs and changes in community/population dynamics. Students will have the opportunity to dive into humans’ role in this ecosystem and their local ecosystems.

Acadia National Park

Ecosystem Explorers (Kindergarten)

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

These programs are written for grades K-2 as a fall exploratory hike along Maine's wild coastline. Each program builds on the previous one and is based on the Next Generation Science Standards.

Everglades National Park

"Alligator Hole Eco-Drama" Wildlife: 4-6th Grade

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

Our "Wildlife" unit is broken into 16 lesson plans, each taking from 20 minutes to several class periods to complete, and targeted mainly at 4th-6th grade students. A class needn't complete every lesson in the unit, though some lessons do refer to one another and are better done in sequence. However, each lesson comes with its own set of objectives and resources.

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

Girl Scouts Cadette Eco Trekker at Carl Sandburg Home NHS

• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Follow this Girl Scouts Cadette "Eco Trekker" badge lesson to plan a visit with your scouts at Carl Sandburg Home NHS. Girls will learn about invasive species, leave no trace and how to practice eco friendly trekking while enjoying the outdoors.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Middle School: Ecosystem Comparison

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

Students will compare the biotic and abiotic factors of a forest and a dune ecosystem, enabling them to discover why the dunes are a challenging, yet unique ecosystem. Students will also learn that animals and plants have developed adaptations that help them live or travel through the dunes.

National Park of American Samoa

Coral Reefs: Ecosystems Dissolving

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

Corals face in our modern world, a great threat due to a projected change in water chemistry in the ocean due to global warming. Just as carbon dioxide (the main greenhouse gas causing global warming) is increasing in the air, it also increases in seawater in its dissolved form. That makes seawater more acidic which, in turn, may slow the rate at which corals build their calcium carbonate skeletons.

Acadia National Park

Ecosystem Explorers (1st Grade)

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

These programs are written for grades K-2 as a fall exploratory hike along Maine's wild coastline. Each program builds on the previous one and is based on the Next Generation Science Standards.

Acadia National Park

Ecosystem Explorers (2nd Grade)

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

These programs are written for grades K-2 as a fall exploratory hike along Maine's wild coastline. Each program builds on the previous one and is based on the Next Generation Science Standards.

Ecosystem Explorers: Three Parks in One!

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

From the Rio Grande to the Chisos Mountains to the Chihuahuan Desert, Big Bend National Park offers a unique opportunity to learn about diverse ecosystems. Join us and discover what makes Big Bend special! (30-45 minutes)

Acadia National Park

Virtual: Grades 3-5: Ecosystem Explorations

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

Learn about interactions between producers, consumers, predators, and prey in Acadia's ecosystem.  We'll explore the relationships between organisms and focus on their roles in the environment, as well as food webs. (45 minutes)

Kenai Fjords National Park

Piecing Together the Fjord Estuary Ecosystem Puzzle

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

By exploring the coast of Resurrection Bay, students will learn about the formation of a fjord, the relationships within an estuary ecosystem, and the importance of conserving the biodiversity within Kenai Fjords National Park.

Cedar Breaks National Monument

Plant Adaptations in the Sub-alpine Forest Ecosystem

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

This lesson plan is built for use on a ranger or teacher guided nature walk at Cedar Breaks. Students will learn about plant adaptations to the sub-alpine forest ecosystem. After learning to identify five of the most common sub-alpine trees and shrubs, students will engage in a hands on study of a one-meter plot of forest. The class then will discuss how the plants are uniquely adapted to long cold winters as well as how forests adapt to changing environmental conditions.

Kenai Fjords National Park

Succession and Nutrient Cycling in a Temperate Rainforest Ecosystem

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

Students will examine succession in two forest ecosystems: a recently de-glaciated area and an established temperate rainforest. (Note: This lesson can be adapted to succession in any forest ecosystem.)

Shenandoah National Park

4th Grade | Ecosystems: The World-Wide Web of Life

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

The world is composed of many natural ecosystems in which plants and animals interact with one another and the nonliving environment. Through this field trip, students will explore the natural communities found in Shenandoah National Park and make comparisons between natural and human communities.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Wetland Ecosystems Virtual Program - Grades 3-5

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

This program explores the concept of an ecosystem by focusing on wetlands in the national park. Students will learn about the living and non-living components of wetlands, and how energy passes through local wetland food webs.