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Snowshoe Field Trip Pre-visit
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Pre and Post Field Trip Activities
Field Trip: The Villages
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Learn about the life of the Hidatsa tribe that lived in the villages at Knife River Indian Villages NHS. The park ranger will guide students through interactive presentations in the museum, the earth lodge, and in the village (on the trail). Program also includes the 15 minute introductory park film.
Overnight Field Trips
- Type: Field Schools & Institutes
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Overnight field trips provide interdisciplinary, experiential and place-based learning in Cuyahoga Valley National Park that your students will never forget! Our dynamic environmental education program is designed to complement what students learn in the classroom and correlate with Ohio academic content standards.
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Museum Detectives Field Trip
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will participate in a guided learning activity inside of the Rainbow Forest Museum identifying and matching replica fossil bones of Late Triassic animals to the museum exhibits. Students will work in groups or pairs to answer questions about the animals and present their answers to the whole class.
Indoor and Outdoor Field Trips
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
On site field trips are the best way for students to connect with where fossils were found and where James Cook ranched and became friends with Red Cloud. Agate Fossil Beds field trips include indoor programs about mammal fossils, historic excavations, American Indian culture and artifacts. Guided hikes on the park's two trails explore the historic dig sites, interesting trace fossils and the natural wonders of mixed grass prairie and Niobrara River.
Spring and Fall Field Trips
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Craters of the Moon National Monument is an exceptional area to study volcanic geology and the plants and animals native to Idaho's high desert. A field trip to Craters of the Moon allows students to engage first-hand with this volcanic landscape hiking up, around, and in volcanoes, walking through some of the youngest lava flows in the lower 48 states, and exploring one of our lava tube caves.
Williams Ranch Field Trip
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Williams Ranch house sits at the base of a 3,000 foot rock cliff on the west side of the park. The road to the ranch follows the route of the old Butterfield Overland Mail Stage Line about two miles. Behind the ranch is Bone Canyon. The cliffs and slopes of the canyon mouth are formed of the oldest rocks in the Guadalupe Mountains.
Pratt Cabin Field Trip
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Water Power: Field Trip
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Habitat Unit Field Trip
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Field Trip in a Box: Geology
Field Trip in a Box: Microorganisms
Geology Unit Field Trip
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Adaptations Unit Field Trip
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Many of Haleakalā’s forest birds have evolved and adapted over time with specific niches in their habitat. Explore how these adaptations are important to the health and stability of native habitats. Learn about the threats to these rare and endemic forest birds and what Haleakalā National Park is doing to protect them from extinction.
Biodiversity Unit Field Trip
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Biodiversity is critical to the health of native habitats and species in Haleakalā National Park. Many plants on the slopes of Haleakalā are endemic and evolved to live in these unique habitats. Explore these habitats and learn why biodiversity is important and how Haleakalā National Park protects these rare, endemic, and endangered species.
Field Trip: Discovery Crate
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

In this guided activity park rangers pretend they have discovered a worn wooden crate in the attic of the old stone house. Inside they find items belonging to a one time resident of Friendship Hill, Albert Gallatin. Students become historians as they attempt to discover what the objects are and what they tell us about Gallatin and his family.