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Lowell National Historical Park

Engineering a Better Future Virtual Field Trip

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

Crushed fingers, broken legs, cuts and bruises … these were just some of the injuries suffered by 19th-century mill workers as they operated large, dangerous machines. Students will examine the Boott Cotton Mills’ looms and apply the engineering design process to identify safety problems and propose possible solutions. Using breakout groups and collaboration technology, students will design a safer loom by applying modern solutions to a historical problem.

Day 4 of Biodiversity Bee Week: Engineering a Bee

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

If you were an engineer, how would you create a “bee” to help pollinate plants? Students will •analyze parts needed by a robotic bee to operate efficiently •describe different structures and functions of their robotic bee •create a robotic bee that would be able to accomplish pollination

Glacier National Park

Going-to-the-Sun Road: A Model of Landscape Engineering - A Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plan

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

Using the Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park in Montana, this lesson plan allows students to identify problems encouraged in designing and building Going-to-the-Sun road and analyze the role of Frank A. Kittredge in planning the road. Students will use historic maps, readings, photographs and drawings to describe and evaluate arguments for building roads to provide access to Glacier National Park and other backcountry and wilderness regions.

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.

Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park

LBJ and the Environment of the 1960s

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

Learn about the environmental issues of the 1960s and how President Lyndon B. Johnson took action.

Everglades National Park

"Create a Community" Environment: 4-6th Grade

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

Communities are made of different plants and animals that all play an important role.

Everglades National Park

"What's So Special?" Environment: 4-6 Grade

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

Students will draw a favorite plant, animal, or activity common to the Everglades environment and explain, in writing, the reason they chose it. This will help students recognize and identify one valuable aspect of a national park’s environment, and draw conclusions as to why they value that aspect of the environment.

Everglades National Park

"Incredible Shrinking Habitat" Environment: 4-6 Grade

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

The Florida panther has succumbed to numerous pressures, including loss of habitat, to become a highly endangered species. Access into wilderness areas by road building for drainage canals, and increased development for ranching, lumber, agriculture, mining, oil and gas drilling, housing and recreation all impact the panther habitat. Students will become panthers, deer and vehicles in an active tag-like game to learn about the impact of development.

Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical Park

Building Stewardship Through Science - Mercury in Our Environment

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

By working with various partners, including Dartmouth College's Toxic Metals Research Program, students determine mercury levels in macroinvertebrates taken from the Pogue (pond) in Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP. Students learn how mercury moves through air, water, and through the food chain. By reading Marsh, learning about Billings and Rockefeller, students will cultivate a sense of stewardship and reflect on their own choices.

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.

National Park of American Samoa

Enviro Musical Chairs

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

There's a certain mystique about the word “biodiversity” that seems to be associated with images of steamy jungles or wondrous new medicines, but the word more specifically refers to the number of species or 'species richness' of an area. One reason why tropical areas are so fascinating is that they contain the highest numbers of plant and animal species found anywhere on earth.American Samoa sits squarely in the tropics, so we should have a high biological diversity here, but we do and we don't

Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park

LBJ's Environmental Legacy

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

Begin to build in LBJ's environmental legacy into your curriculum by using resources provided

Everglades National Park

"Where Have You Gone?" Environment: 4-6 Grade

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

Students will be able to: a) discuss some of the problems that wild animals and plants face from humans, b) list examples of how personal feelings and beliefs can affect situations involving wild organisms, and c) make decisions about a value-related plant/animal issue.

Klondike Gold Rush - Seattle Unit National Historical Park

Klondike's Environmental Impact on People

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

What situations were travelers to the Klondike Gold Rush prepared to handle? Are there any bugs or animals that could have caused them harm? Do you think the small chance of finding gold successfully outweighed the risks and costs of sailing and hiking into the Yukon?

Olympic National Park

FDR’s New Deal Environmental Preservation

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

Students will be able to argue by using multiple sources the effectiveness of FDR’s Relief, Recovery and Reform Programs toward environmental preservation.

Plants, Pollen, and People: Archeology and Pollen Analysis

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

Students will learn how archeologists use pollen to learn more about past lifeways and environmental conditions, the methodological steps involved in pollen analysis, and how archeologists interpret their results. Este plan de clase con actividades incluido también está disponible en español.

Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve

Mars Traveling Trunk

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Journey through time and space, through the geography and geology of sand dunes, and the feats of engineering that make such exploration possible.

Hot Springs National Park

Protecting the Water

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

This program explores the ways that Hot Springs National Park protects the natural water cycle and harnesses the water for human use. Students will explore different challenges from habitat protection to engineering that the park faces in protecting the 143-degree thermal water for public use. Designed for 5th and 6th grade Earth Science and Engineering. Advanced programs may be used for High School programs.

Acadia National Park

Virtual: Grades 3-5: Carriage Road ABCs: Architects, Bridges, and Carriages!

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

Draw, design, and move along as we explore the stories of those who helped engineer, build, and maintain the historic carriage roads and bridges of Acadia. (45 minutes)

Arches National Park

Plant Adaptations

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

Students explore the structures of plants and their functions by comparing desert and riparian plant adaptations. Students engineer mechanisms to help seeds travel, and design their own plants in the classroom.