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Niobrara National Scenic River

Food Webs of Niobrara

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This lesson overviews the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers. Students will create their own food webs using plants and animals found in the Niobrara River Valley.

Buffalo National River

Food Web Frenzy

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

This lesson was designed to help students understand the food chain and food webs an ecosystem holds and how one part of the chain affects everything surrounding it and more.

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Bison and the Food Web

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

Image of food web with examples

Badlands National Park

Bison Banquet: Food Chains and Food Webs of the Prairie

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

In this lesson students will students will identify the components of a prairie food chain and prairie food web. Students will be able to illustrate the transfer of energy in both a food chain and a food web. Students will also explore how environmental changes impact the food chain and food web.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

5th Grade: Dunes Food Web

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

Students will understand the components of a food web and how they interact. They will create a food web based off a “mini ecosystem” that was marked out along the trail. They will define “invasive species” and identify common invasive species in our area.

Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

Web of Life

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

Students learn about the complexity of life and interrelationships between living things by constructing a Craters food web.

Glacier National Park

The Web of Life

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

Students will be able to illustrate the interrelationships of W-GIPP animals and plants through the weaving of a simple web.

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Web of Life

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

This lesson will help students visualize the interconnections found within the natural world. They will learn the concepts of food chains and food webs, and construct their own food web using the provided worksheet of plants and animals found in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Glacier National Park

Subalpine Web

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

The classic “Ball of yarn” web activity, combined with a “Who am I?” quiz game – about the alpine and subalpine prime-time players. Grades: 7 – 12

Mammoth Cave National Park

Webbing The Wonders

• 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 9 of that set. This web illustrates the way individual parts connect to form the world's longest cave.

Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park

Web Quest Curriculum Unit

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

A cooperative activity where students identify each of the five cases included in the Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision, explore how the NAACP was involved, and how explore the significance of the "separate but equal" clause.

Walnut Canyon National Monument

Walnut Canyon Web Quest

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

This web-based activity will walk the students through a virtual tour of many of the key natural and cultural sites around Walnut Canyon National Monument while helping the students learn about the processes and history that makes this area so unique. Students will conduct an internet based inquiry investigation focusing on understanding how the plants, animals, people and places have shaped this unique place.

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

"We Proceeded On..."

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

Students will learn about maps and what information can be gathered from them through the use of maps of the lower Columbia River. Using math and timing their own walking speeds students will be able to determine how long it would take to drive from one location to Fort Clatsop, walk to Fort Clatsop, and how much that would cost.

Food for Life

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

Although at first glance the desert may seem to have little in the way of wildlife, it actually contains large, diverse populations. On this field trip, students will take a quarter-mile nature walk combined with directed science exploration to experience the Mojave Desert as one great big giant food bowl. Pre and post-visit activities are included.

Food Chains

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

Food chains reveal how each organism depends on someone else for survival and can help scientists learn more about ecosystems and how to help them stay balanced.

Everglades National Park

"Web of Life" Everglades ABCs: 3rd Grade

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

Students will be able to name at least three living and three non-living components of the web of life and will be able to identify which web of life categories three different Everglades species fit into.

Shenandoah National Park

4th Grade | Ecosystems: The World-Wide Web of Life

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

The world is composed of many natural ecosystems in which plants and animals interact with one another and the nonliving environment. Through this field trip, students will explore the natural communities found in Shenandoah National Park and make comparisons between natural and human communities.

Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park

We Want You!

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

At the start of the U.S.-Mexican War, both Mexican and U.S. citizens mistrusted a standing army. In this activity, students discuss reasons for joining an army. Next, they discuss the differences between a regular army and a militia of volunteers. Then they review and discuss U.S. and Mexican perspectives on regular and volunteer soldiers.

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.

Shenandoah National Park

4th Grade | Virtual Ecosystems: The World-Wide Web of Life

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

The world is composed of many natural ecosystems in which plants and animals interact with one another and the nonliving environment. Through this field trip, students will virtually explore the natural communities found in Shenandoah National Park and make comparisons between natural and human communities. 60 minutes