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Mount Rainier National Park

Fire and Ice

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

Students use ice cream glaciers and hot wax lava flows to simulate the interactions of glaciers and lava flows. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to answer the question: How do a volcano and its glaciers work together, specifically at Mount Rainier?

Glacier National Park

Meeting the Fire Triangle

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

In this activity, students make a physical model of the Fire Triangle as a geometric shape. They manipulate the model and discuss the components of the Fire Triangle in the context of things they are already familiar with - candle flames, campfires, and engines.

Alaska Public Lands

Fire in Alaska Kit

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This educational kit provides teachers and students with an excellent opportunity to learn about the importance and problems of fires. they will be able to identify hazard signs and natural change while taking part in group activities.

Mount Rainier National Park

Flood, Fire, and Fury!

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This activity provides information about how some of the earliest human inhabitants in the Pacific Northwest witnessed geologic activity at Mount Rainier. Native Americans used oral, rather than written, communication to pass down historical information, heritage, and traditions.

Natchez Trace Parkway

The Spark of Bravery, A Fire of Discovery

• Type: Distance Learning ... Field Trips
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

One of the bravest men in American history, join us for 45-minutes as we take a look at the incredible life of Meriwether Lewis from childhood through the Corps of Discovery, to his final days along Natchez Trace. *This program briefly discusses his suicide, with minimal detail, and the National Suicide Prevention hotline contact information

Fire Island National Seashore

Fire Island Treasure Chest

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Packed with shells, sand, samples, and field guides, our treasure chest is an easy way to prepare for your Fire Island field trip or bring the Seashore to your classroom.

Hawaiian Islands: Born of Fire

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

This lesson introduces students to hot spot theory and how it relates to plate tectonics. It also compares and contrasts composite and shield volcanoes and introduces students to the theory behind the formation of the Hawaiian Islands. Students will learn how to classify Hawaiian volcanoes according to their activity and location as active, dormant and extinct.

Glacier National Park

Meeting the Fire Triangle 2

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

This activity is a brief guided discussion that describes combustion and wildland fire.

Gateway Arch National Park

Wolf Cubs: Council Fire

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

Visit the Museum at Gateway Arch National Park and explore the history and future of your community. Talk with a National Park Service ranger and learn about service to community and country. Fulfills requirements 3a, 3b and 5.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Black Hills Fire Ecology

• Type: Distance Learning ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

How does fire help our landscapes? In this lesson students will learn about prescribed burns and the helpful side of fire through an activity and lesson.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Distance Learning: A Beneficial Fire

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This distance learning opportunity explores prescribed fires. Ranger will walk students through the benefits of a prescribed fire, particularly within the prairie restoration process. Students will learn about equipment, personal protective equipment, and possible NPS careers in wildland fire management.

Fire Island National Seashore

Considering Climate Change: Fire Island and Storms

• Type: Science Labs
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This science lab explores the impacts of Hurricane Sandy - the history-making 2012 storm - on the natural resources of Fire Island, and challenges students to consider the effects of climate change that are likely to occur close to home. It is an inquiry-based lab with pre-labs, activities, and homework designed to increase understanding of climate change.

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

National Park Labs: Studies of Wildland Fire Ecology

• Type: Science Labs
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

National Park Labs: Studies of Wildland Fire Ecology curriculum is progressive and builds on the knowledge of each prior lesson. Teacher materials include guidelines that provide the concept, objective, method, materials, duration, procedures for conducting lessons, student handouts, and student investigation worksheets.

Acadia National Park

Fire and Ice: Discovering Acadia's Geologic Past (5th-8th Grade)

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

With a new found knowledge and appreciation of Acadia's geology, students will discuss ways they can help take care of the geologic resources in the park.

Stones River National Battlefield

Stones River National Battlefield - Interactive Artillery Program - Load, Ready, Fire!

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

Students will get a hands-on history experience while learning the importance of teamwork.

Everglades National Park

"Pineland Invaders" Plant: 4-6 Grade

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

Students will be able to show and/or hypothesize about the relationship between fire and the plants in the hammock and the pinelands.

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Science on the Prairie

• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In these lesson plans, students will perform scientific research on the prairie to learn of the importance of grasshoppers, fire, and aquatic invertebrates are to the prairie

Arches National Park

Forces & Tools

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

Students use digging sticks, throw atlatls, make fire with bow drills, and use rock wedges to explore the affects of friction and gravity on objects.

Rifles vs Muskets in the Revolutionary War

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

The two main shoulder-fired weapons of the revolution are the musket and rifle. They both have their pros and cons in battle. Students will analyze and compare the parabolic shape of each weapon. They will try and determine which weapon they would wield.

Everglades National Park

"The Everglades are on Fuego" Habitat Video: Pine Rocklands

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

The students will be able to distinguish the difference between the four different Everglades ecosystems listed in the key vocabulary- Pine Rocklands, Sawgrass Prairies, Coastal Prairies, Hardwood Hammocks. The students will be able to describe the importance of fire and lightning to the Everglades.