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Petrified Forest National Park

Clam Beds Geology Hike

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

Geology/Clam Beds Hike: Grades 3-8, 60-90 minutes Students hike with a ranger into the badlands of Petrified Forest where they learn how to make observations, read the rocks around them, discover fossil evidence and discuss ideas about Arizona's geologic past. Group Size is limited to 25 students.

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve

Bottomland Hardwood Trail Hike

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

Join Rangers Allyn and Natasha on a trail hike through a beautiful bottomland hardwood forest and see what kind of animals are waiting for you!

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

Why Visit His Home?

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

Using a four square graphic organizer, draft, edit and publish a persuasive essay OR draft a speech to persuade OR create a Prezi to persuade the observer to visit the birthplace home of President Clinton.

Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site

Incline 6: An Intepretive Hike

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

the students will hike a trail to the bottom of Incline 6 and hike back up by way of the incline itself. On the way down, students will learn about the natural resources used as raw materials in the building of the Allegheny Portage Railroad. On the way up, students will learn about the cultural resources related to the incline. They will also have the opportunity to determine the angle of the incline and the change in elevation.

Prince William Forest Park

Hike to the Cabin Branch Pyrite Mine

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

Learn the history of the park's iron pyrite mine on this moderate, two mile hike that lasts around two hours. Rangers will hike with students to the old mine site, and give students the opportunity to learn about the park's mine reclamation efforts, stroll along a boardwalk, and see several existing foundations and capped off mine shafts.

Saratoga National Historical Park

Nature Hike: A walk on the Wilkinson Trail

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

Nature hikes are a great way to explore outdoor areas, and Saratoga National Historical Park’s main hiking trail, the 4+ mile Wilkinson Trail, has much to offer. Named for British mapmaker Lieutenant William Wilkinson, the trail has a shorter, 2 mile option useful with students. This activity sheet accompanies the 2-mile hike, encouraging students to look around them and engage with the natural world around them.

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument

Ranger-Guided Outdoor Fossil Hiking Programs

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

Bring your class or group to see the Miocene fossil sites, American Indian heritage artifacts and more up close and interactively!

Stones River National Battlefield

Stones River National Battlefield History Hike

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

Forward March! Join a park ranger for half-mile walk through the battlefield and learn about the Battle of Stones River on the ground where men in blue and gray struggled decades ago.

Acadia National Park

I Notice I Wonder: Hiking Valley Cove

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

I notice I wonder videos are designed to generate student questions about park wide phenomena. Valley Cove Trail is a trail on the west side of the island with a unique history. Learn more about Acadia's trails with this short video.

Channel Islands National Park

Channel Islands Live Hike: Island of the Blue Dolphins

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

Students discover Anacapa Island through an interactive, live visit with a park ranger and learn about the Channel Islands' tie to the book Island of the Blue Dolphins. They identify basic human needs and find out how these needs are met by people living on islands with fewer and less diversity of resources.

George Washington Carver National Monument

George Washington Carver - The Artist: Resource to His People

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

Focusing on Carver's fiber art, this lesson concludes with student creating woven bracelets.

Channel Islands National Park

Channel Islands Live Hike: Chumash Indians on the Channel Islands

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

Early Island Chumash had the same basic needs we have today, yet provided for them in different ways. Students participate in a live, interactive visit with a park ranger on Anacapa Island to learn how humans use the natural resources around them to provide their basic needs. A program goal is for students to develop an appreciation and stewardship of the American Indian culture on the park islands while learning about their own connections to the past.

Channel Islands National Park

Channel Islands Live Hike: What’s in Your Backpack, Park Ranger?

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students explore park ranger jobs through meeting a ranger in an interactive distance learning program. Students learn about job responsibilities by using objects from the ranger's backpack as discussion prompts. Program was specially developed for classes reading Exploring Parks with Ranger Dockett in their Houghton Mifflin Harcourt language arts textbook. Can be adapted for other grade levels.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site

Commemoration, Memorialization, and Legacy: An Exploration of the Public and Private Memory of John F. Kennedy and His Presidency

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

This lesson will allow students to explore the theme of commemoration, memorialization, and legacy through reading of primary and secondary sources. They will engage in a consideration of how historical memory is shaped and how we commemorate people and places. The lesson will also allow students to make connections about their own thoughts and feelings regarding history and how it is commemorated.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Thomas Jefferson: The Versatile Founding Father

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

Thomas Jefferson was a highly educated man with widely varied interests. Learn about his life and his participation in the founding of the United States and his roles in governing the country.

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

Carl Sandburg Through Time (Grades 3-5)

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

The purpose of this lesson is for students to learn about Sandburg’s life through his writing. Students will analyze one of Sandburg’s poems and explain what his poetry tells us about his family and his life. Students will think about their own families and will write an autobiographical poem about themselves.

“Journey from Slavery to Stateman”: The Homes of Frederick Douglass

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

Follow Frederick Douglass on his journey from life as a slave to that of a respected statesman and investigate how three homes reflect the different phases of his life.

Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial

Dear Diary: Abraham Lincoln’s Reflections

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

How did the people, places, and events in the different stages of Lincoln’s life influence his development and contribute to his growth as an individual and future political leader?

Fort Larned National Historic Site

A Long Way to Santa Fe

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

What's it like to travel the Santa Fe Trail on a wagon train? Robert Earl would say it's long periods of boredom with a few moments of excitement. Follow his story to find out about his adventures traveling with his father on the Santa Fe Trail.

The Washington Monument: Tribute in Stone

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

Understand why George Washington was so revered during his lifetime and beyond, and learn why it took 100 years to complete this famous monument in his honor.