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Rocky Mountain National Park
Sounds of Rocky
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Rocky Mountain National Park's 415 square miles hold an expansive library of sounds- from rushing waterfalls in the spring to the sounds of elk bugling in the fall. Students will become sound scientists, performing three experiments to uncover the properties of sound and studying how three animals hear and use sound in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Acadia National Park
Sound Mapping
- Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students learn that scientists make observations using a variety of senses. Students practice the skill of observation through listening to collect data in their local environment.
Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve
The World of Underwater Sound
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will learn about sound and its role in the environment through listening to their own surrounding and the sounds of Glacier Bay.
Arches National Park
Heat, Light, and Sound
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In these lessons, students investigate how energy moves through desert ecosystems in the form of heat, light, and sound. Students learn about insulators for heat and how sunscreen works to protect skin from UV light. They use sound to search for birds, and lenses to complete a scavenger hunt. The lesson concludes with a discussion about how too much heat, light, or sound can be harmful.
Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
Sound Intensity & Loudness
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students learn how to measure intensity and loudness, the difference between sound and noise, and when a sound is considered noise pollution.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
The Sound of Buffalo Soldiers! A Musical Bridge to Communities
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Adult Education
How has music influenced your connection to a community? Throughout the history of the United States military, music has been part of the sound experience of soldiers. For the Buffalo Soldiers, music also served as a tool to build a connection to the communities they served.
Acadia National Park
Virtual: Grades 7-10: Waves in Acadia – Sound and Light
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Draw sonograms. Measure infrared. Chart radio waves. Explore real world examples of light and sound waves in Acadia National Park with this interactive, virtual program. (1 hour)
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
During the Battle of Palo Alto, U.S. and Mexican soldiers experienced the thunder of cannon and the sight of cannonballs in the air. You can also discover the sights, sounds, and sensations soldiers experienced during the battle. Students will read primary and secondary quotes about the battle and use them to fill out a graphic organizer. They will convert the weight of cannonballs from pounds to ounces and discuss how the quotes and cannonball weights affected the outcome of the battle.
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
So You Wanna Be a Paleontologist?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will become familiarized with fossils that have been uncovered in Florissant Fossil Beds from the Eocene and Quaternary. They will select a certain extinct species and make a sketch on a Popsicle stick canvas. After shuffling their Popsicle stick fossil, they will then hide the sticks around a room and have someone else find and "excavate" the Popsicle stick fossil and attempt to put it back together. Best done with a partner to exchange fossils to find and put together.
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
So You Wanna Be a Paleobotanist?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will re-create scientific studies done by paleobotanists analyzing data from fossil plants found at Florissant Fossil Beds to draw conclusions about the paleoclimate 34 million years ago. In this activity, students will identify fossil plant species by their leaves, review data on the growing conditions of their nearest modern plant relatives, and compare as many species as possible to determine the range of temperature and precipitation that the fossil plant community can live in.
President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site
So you want to be an American President
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson is opened with a discussion, followed by the reading of Judith St. George and David Small's book, "So you want to be President", then progress into assignments, presentations, gallery walk and awards as applicable to the teacher.
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
Historical Characters
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this activity, students will learn about nine key participants in the Battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma and the Siege of Fort Brown. They will discover how the personalities of these key leaders helped them during these clashes and influenced their outcome. Students them compare their own personality traits to discover how they are like or different from these leaders.
Acadia National Park
"Historic" Journal Activity
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students are able to explore life in an 1800’s homestead. They will write narratives to explain their understanding of life at an 1800’s homestead.
Everglades National Park
"What's So Special?" Environment: 4-6 Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will draw a favorite plant, animal, or activity common to the Everglades environment and explain, in writing, the reason they chose it. This will help students recognize and identify one valuable aspect of a national park’s environment, and draw conclusions as to why they value that aspect of the environment.
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
Teaching With Historic Places Curriculum
- Type: Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson is based on the Historic Resources Study for Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, as well as other materials on Bethune and the National Council of Negro Women.
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.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
How can math be used to explore the impact of the Blackstone Canal on Worcester?
Governors Island National Monument
Castle Williams Historic Structure Report
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This report provides a comprehensive timeline of the history of Castle Williams. Prepared by Barbara Yocum as part of the National Park Service's Historic Architecture Program, it includes many images, diagrams, and summaries of each era in the Castle's history.
Governors Island National Monument
Fort Jay Historic Structure Report
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This Historic Structure Report, prepared by Barbara Yocum for the National Park Service's Historic Architecture program, provides a comprehensive timeline of the structures of Fort Jay. Please contact the park to obtain a copy of the report.
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park
Conococheague Aqueduct Breach Historical Photos
- Type: Online Galleries
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Online gallery of historical photos from the 1920s breach of the Conococheague Aqueduct at C&O Canal National Historical Park and Captain Myer's boat which was sunk as a result of the canal breach.