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Adapting to an Extreme Environment
LBJ and the Environment of the 1960s
"Create a Community" Environment: 4-6th Grade
"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.
"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.
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.
Environmental Prairie Science
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
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
"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'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?
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.
Why Visit His Home?
History on Trial
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
History Hunters
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This activity trunk is designed to introduce learners to the ways that historians, archeologists, and anthropologists use primary resources to learn about the past. Students will role-play by wearing costumes identifying each as an anthropologist, archeologist, or historian.
History and Technology
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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Historical Characters
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this activity, students will learn about nine key participants in the Battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma and the Siege of Fort Brown. They will discover how the personalities of these key leaders helped them during these clashes and influenced their outcome. Students them compare their own personality traits to discover how they are like or different from these leaders.
Do History and Science at the Tsongas Industrial History Center
George Washington Carver - The Artist: Resource to His People
Park History Talk
- Type: Field Trips ... Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade