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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.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Winter Adaptations in the Black Hills

• Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Using images, descriptions and definitions students will compare and contrast different strategies animals use to survive in their environment. They will apply this knowledge to other animals and environments and communicate their ideas within small groups and with the larger class.

Devils Postpile National Monument

Exploring Climate Science: Climate Change

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

In “Exploring Climate Science (Climate Change),” students will explore causes of climate change and discuss impacts on the environment. Students will be able to: List three causes of climate change Describe at least two impacts to the environment caused by climate change

Grand Canyon National Park

Superhero Species

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

Students will create original drawings illustrating plant and animal adaptations that they find in their surrounding environment.

Create a Critter

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

This is a quick and fun assessment to establish what students know about the ocean environments and the animals that live there.

Arches National Park

Field Trip in a Box: Desert Adaptations

• Type: Media for Loan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will learn how high desert plants and animals are adapted to their environment in many different ways.

Haleakalā National Park

Create a Creature

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

At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to describe how plants and animals use adaptations to survive in a particular environment.

Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve

The World of Underwater Sound

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

Students will learn about sound and its role in the environment through listening to their own surrounding and the sounds of Glacier Bay.

John Day Fossil Beds National Monument

Survival of the Fittest

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

Create your own new kind of animal and learn why some animals thrive in certain environments and not others.