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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Bear Essentials
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Our Bear Essentials program will introduce your students to the essentials bears need to survive and inspire them to think like scientists.
Mesa Verde National Park
Understanding World Heritage
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
What is a world heritage site, why are they selected, and what can my community and I do to help preserve heritage sites in my community and globally?
Saguaro National Park
Understanding Percent Using Buffelgrass
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The objective of this lesson is to help students learn and understand percentages while also learning about the significance of buffelgrass, an invasive plant in the Sonoran Desert.
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Essex County Educator Webinar (Outdated)
- Type: Teacher Workshops & Other Programs
- Grade Levels: Adult Education
Join us on Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 7:00pm to 8:30pm (EST) for a virtual webinar highlighting new digital resources for educators on the history of slavery and freedom in Salem, Massachusetts.
Zion National Park
Genetics and Adaptations: Understanding Inherited Traits and Survival
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The students will focus on and discover how different plants living in Zion National Park use their inheritable traits to adapt to their environment. Students will model plant genetics using different colored beans to make combinations of alleles, representing the hybridization of prickly pear cacti in Zion National Park.
Tumacácori National Historical Park
The Blame Game - Pima (O'odham) Rebellion of 1751
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
“What caused the Upper Pima (O’odham) Rebellion?” Students will encounter various answers to the essential question through the close reading and study of several primary and secondary sources. Students will have the opportunity to understand the impact of the Spanish mission system on native peoples and to investigate some of the causes of the rebellion.
Glacier National Park
Stewards of the Land
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students learn about the four main tribes associated with the Glacier area. Then watch videos with tribal leaders and elders talking about their tribe’s relationship to Glacier National Park and why they feel it’s important to take care of the park. Students will reflect/discuss messages in the videos and write a contemporary story that teaches about caring for the Earth. Homework: Student Reading 1: People and Glacier National Park.
Glacier National Park
The Work of Water
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students construct a river model. Then use a watering can or hose to observe the role water has in causing weathering, erosion, deposition and sculpting the landscape.
Glacier National Park
Carving Mountains
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Through individual and group research, students create a clay model of a mountain range with glacial features labelled.
Glacier National Park
Model Glaciers
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Using river trough from Unit 2, students place/move frozen ice blocks with gravel/rocks in them through the sand to form glacially carved valleys, cirques, tarn lakes, etc.
Glacier National Park
Erosion and Preservation of the Water Table
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Teacher will demonstrate or have students take turns, pouring water on different ground covers to observe which holds the sediments in place better.
Glacier National Park
Who Says Plants Can't Move?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Student volunteers move around the classroom and role play different techniques to model the various ways plants can distribute their seeds. They observe a variety of seeds/berries from their neighborhood.
Glacier National Park
Animal Research
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students discuss human-animal relationship, choose animal for research, answer animal research questions, illustrate and share research.
Glacier National Park
Breaking it Down
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students observe a concrete example of water weathering rocks by freezing a jar of water and then letting the broken jar with ice, un-thaw to illustrate power of ice in weathering rocks.
Glacier National Park
Formation of Mountains and Faults
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Stations are set up around the classroom for teacher to demonstrate and then for students to rotate through in small groups. Video and photos are available of mountains in Glacier NP for students to look at from the Student Resource Guide CD or other source.
Glacier National Park
What's In A Name?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students decipher scientific name meanings and use native plant field guides, information from the tribes, or links to online resources provided to create a chart of the different names for the same native plant.
Glacier National Park
Native Harvest
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Discussion of the value of native plants and plants as cultural resources. Students have access to materials, library, internet to do plant research. Best if can also do field trip to park or other wild area to see native plants in their natural setting.
Glacier National Park
Oral Histories and Glacier National Park
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students read and compare/contrast the cultural stories about creation of land formations with “A Geological Story of Glacier National Park.” The teacher will lead a discussion about story telling, oral history, and different explanations for the same phenomena.
Valley Forge National Historical Park
The March In
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this lesson, students will examine secondary source documents and utilize map skills to understand the reasons why Valley Forge was chosen as the site for the Continental Army's winter encampment in 1777. Students will then be able to answer the following essential question: Why did General George Washington choose Valley Forge as the site for the Army’s winter encampment?
Glacier National Park
Painted Lodges
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students learn about the uniqueness of lodge designs and connection with animals. They use art skills to design their own lodges, write explanations of, and share designs. An optional activity is to construct a scale model lodge.