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Big Cypress National Preserve

Let the Water Flow
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will watch an interactive video produced by Big Cypress National Preserve. The video will cover various topics of hydrology in the Big Cypress Watershed, allowing students to participate in answering/solving questions regarding the flow of water.

Flowering Plant Reproduction in the Tallgrass Prairie
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Learn about the prairie at its best

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha (River Flows and Sediment Movement)
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Seasonal weather patterns affect the flow patterns of water into the rivers (and watersheds) of Western North America. What landform features can form when erosion is caused by fast –moving water from Spring and Fall rains, and snowpack melt off?

Exploring Climate Science: Stream Flow Tools and Data
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In “Exploring Climate Science (Streamflow Tools and Data),” students will use data to draw conclusions about climate change. The students will be able to: 1. Create a double line graph to show the changes in streamflow throughout the year 2. Make two predictions about how climate change may affect stream flows

Day 2 of Biodiversity Bee Week: Flower Dissection / Insect Pollination
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

What adaptations do flowers have to ensure their pollination and survival? Students will •Observe and dissect the parts of flowers that help them survive •Compare the form of the structural adaptations of a flower to their functions •Explain how the adaptations allow flowers to survive

Mount Rainier National Park

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

Students investigate the influence of magma viscosity on the shape of a volcanic cone. Then, they explore nature and motions of lava flows and learn about the importance of lava flows as the building blocks of Mount Rainier. Students will: How do lava flows influence volcano structure and type, specifically at Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, and Kilauea?

Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument

Pleistocene Food Scene
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will model the flow of energy through Pleistocene (Ice Age) food chains.

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?

Haleakalā National Park

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

Pāhoehoe lava rock is one of many rock formations made by volcanoes. Rocks can show us all kinds of information like types of volcanoes and kinds of lava flowed, where lava flowed and whether lava cooled down fast or slow. Geology rocks!

Guadalupe Mountains National Park

Permian Reef Geology Trail
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

McKittrick Canyon contains a unique biotic community that clings to an intermittent stream which flows over fragile, travertine formations.

George Washington Carver National Monument

George Washington Carver - The Artist: The Plant Doctor
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

A Black-Eyed Susan flower, with yellow petals and a brown/black center, commonly found on tallgrass prairie at George Washington Carver National Monument

Everglades National Park

"Rainy Season in Three Cups" Water: 4-6 Grade
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will learn where the water that sustains the Everglades originates, and how the flow of water through the K-O-E watershed sustains Florida Bay as well.

Voyageurs National Park

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

Why do the leaves fall off the trees in the fall? What happens to the flowers and butterflies in the winter? Students can learn to track seasonal changes around them and why these changes occur.

Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

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.

Pre and Post Field Trip Activities
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will be able to understand the role of Fort Matanzas in relation to Spanish colonial history and how Fort Matanzas played an integral role in protecting the city of St. Augustine, FL.

Zion National Park

Pollination Adaptations: Connecting Habitat and Anatomy
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Have you ever wondered why bees are so fuzzy? Or how they’re able to find flowers and then travel back to their nests? Or even wanted to know why bees are such good pollinators? Students will have the opportunity to explore the answers to each of those questions. Once students have a basic understanding of bee body parts, they can design their own bee based around a Zion habitat. Students can be as creative as they like—as long as they provide an explanation for how their bee can thrive in Zion!

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve

Explore Barataria! Invasive Species – Water Hyacinth
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Learn about one invasive species present at the Barataria Preserve, called the Water Hyacinth. Then see if you can you answer all of the questions and teach a sibling, friend, parent, or guardian about control measures for invasive species.

Haleakalā National Park

Adaptation
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this lesson, haumana (students) will learn what a botanist, ornithologist, and entomologist are and what they do, what adaptation is and how Hawaiʻi native Honeycreepers adapted to fill unique niches in the environment.

Zion National Park

Pollination Investigation
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this distance learning program, students will discover what pollination is and how important it is to all ecosystems. Looking at the relationship between plants and pollinators, participants will see how they have influenced each other and will be challenged to create their own perfect pollinator. (45 minutes)

Arches National Park

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

Students explore the structures of plants and their functions by comparing desert and riparian plant adaptations. Students engineer mechanisms to help seeds travel, and design their own plants in the classroom.