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Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park

Family Tree

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

Students will be able to depict relationships between individuals in a work of art.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

Family Tree of Student's Life

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

In class, Instructor will lead a discussion in what is a "family tree". Teacher will model by sharing their individual family tree using one of the tree options and the ovals. Analyze the lifestyle of your ancestors in comparison to yours today. Students will complete a family or household tree at home. Students will write one paragraph (on the blank side of the page) explaining why they chose that particular tree design to populate.

Thomas Stone National Historic Site

Families of the Past

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

Students step into the past as theybecome familiar with daily life in a Maryland home in the late 1700s and learnabout Thomas Stone as a husband, father, farmer, lawyer and signer of theDeclaration of Independence. Students will compare life in the 18th century totheir lives today. Students will enjoy interactive tours of the house, groundsand Visitor Center as well as hands-on activities.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

Family Tradition

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

Students will organize their thoughts with one of the enclosed graphic organizers, the write an essay on a family member that inspires them. Students will read aloud to a peer and collaboratively work together to improve the writing. During Art period, students will design a colored cover sheet for their essay. Completed essays will be displayed in the hallway.

Gateway Arch National Park

My Family Story

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

Scouts will discover how stories of long ago, gathered from oral histories, photographs, letters, and diaries, can help us learn about where we came from and who we are while exploring the Museum at the Gateway Arch.

Voyageurs National Park

Beaver Lodge Family

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Why is the beaver population so resilient? Students can simulate the life of a beaver in the beaver lodge!

Acadia National Park

Resources for Families at Home

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Looking for fun ways to learn and grow with your children at home? Check out these resources for crafts, games, and activities that will encourage families to explore the green spaces near them and gain understanding of habitats and animals in Acadia National Park and beyond!

Fort Scott National Historic Site

Frontiering with Family and Friends

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

Junior Ranger Badge for Frontiering with Family and Friends.

Meet a Tree

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

Students observe trees through touch, smell, and finally through sight with this interactive lesson plan.

Olympic National Park

The Key to the Tree

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

Students will connect their neighborhood or outdoor space to the National Parks by identifying specific types of trees.

Glacier National Park

Tree Parts

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

Class discussion of tree parts and their functions, then students construct small trees incorporating all the parts it will need to live.

National Park of American Samoa

I'm A Tree

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

Most of the natural vegetation of American Samoa (present before the arrival of Polynesians about 3000 years ago) fits into the category of tropical rainforest. Tropical rainforests are found throughout the world in areas of warm climates and sufficient to plentiful year-round rainfall. The Samoan tropical rainforest originally extended from just inland of the shore up to the summits of the highest mountains.

Glacier National Park

Build A Tree

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

Students will reinforce what they learned about the different parts of a tree and the role each part plays in the growth of a tree, using role-playing theater.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Among the Trees

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

Explore a forest ecosystem to discover which organisms live here. Search for producers, consumers, and decomposers and learn how they are all connected.

Mammoth Cave National Park

Tasty Trees

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

This lesson plan is from "Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3", which comprises ten lessons. This is lesson 5 of that set.

Tree Rings

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

In this lesson students will learn about tree rings and how archaeologists use them to help date sites and artifacts. What are tree rings? How are tree rings used to determine the age of archaeological sites? Students will... ●Understand how trees grow and why growth rings are formed. ●Describe how climate and weather affects the growth of tree rings. ●Explain the age of a tree by its rings. ●Understand how ring patterns can be used to determine the age of archaeological sites.

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park

Family Matters: The Life of a Slave Family Pre-Visit Activity

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

Family was central to Harriet Tubman's life. As she wrote, "I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land; and my home, after all, was down in Maryland; because my father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were there. But I was free, and they should be free." What compelled Tubman to return for her loved ones on multiple trips to guide them to freedom?

Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site

Farming and Family at White Haven

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

Students in lower elementary grades (k-2) will learn about the importance of family to Ulysses S. Grant and his life as a farmer at White Haven in this immersive field trip experience.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

Family Ties (Post Visit)

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

Teacher will lead a discussion on what aspects of President Cllinton's early years were similar or different than the student's experiences.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

Family Ties (Pre Visit)

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

Students are encouraged to bring or upload one of their baby pictures and one old family photo to Google Classroom. Teacher will organize them in Google Slides and display the images to the class to identify "who is who' in their class.