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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.

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.

Acadia National Park

Outdoor Triangle Proportions

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

By the end of this unit students will be able to understand similar triangles and proportions. Students will do this through measuring a tree shadow and using their own height and shadow length to set up a proportion. By finishing the calculation, the students will find the height of the tree or building. Activity designed for grades 5-9 but can be modified higher or lower.

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?

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.

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.

Gateway Arch National Park

Dred Scott Traveling Trunk

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

One of the most important cases ever tried in the United States concerning slavery took place at the St. Louis courthouse. This traveling trunk introduces students to enslaved couple, Dred and Harriet Scott, and their fight for freedom in the 1840s and 1850s.

Eisenhower National Historic Site

Eisenhower and Little Rock: A Civil Rights Lesson

• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort African-American students to Central High School in Little Rock in Sept. 1957, after the governor of Arkansas tried to enforce segregation. Photo courtesy National Archives. Operation Arkansas

Fort Scott National Historic Site

Your Day in Court: Bleeding Kansas Courtroom Program

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

Is it fair to make decisions based on biased laws? This program recreates a court case that was tried at Fort Scott in the 1850s, The issue involved a land squabble between two men on opposite sides of the political spectrum. The court was left to decide the issue based on territorial law that favored the proslavery side based on the fact that proslavery men held the majority in the territorial legislature and decided territorial law in their favor.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site

Birthplace of John F. Kennedy: Growing up Kennedy

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

This lesson allows high school students to examine historical written, photographic, and video evidence from the Kennedys' time in Brookline and the Kennedy presidency in order to understand the way family background and values shape one's character. Students will identify the values the Kennedys tried to instill in their children, how these values impacted President Kennedy's character, and why we remember President Kennedy today, as well as how their own backgrounds have influenced them.