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Kenai Fjords National Park
Listening to the Ice
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
What are global warming and climate change? How are they caused, and how they are impacting our planet? A National Park Ranger will use Kenai Fjords National Park as a looking glass through which to observe our planet's health. The ranger will engage students with questioning, video content and other techniques in order to broaden their local and global understanding of climate change and leave them with a hopeful attitude about the future of our natural environment.
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?
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
Ice Age Investigation
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
An independent research activity where students will make observations and understand that many Ice Age animals are similar to animals that still live today.
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
Ice Age Mammals of Tule Springs Research Project
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will identify key information about a past species. Students will describe modern relatives of a species found in the fossil record.
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.
Everglades National Park
"Sea Level Rise" Climate Change: 4-6 Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Using props, ice, building dioramas, maps and art, students will see how sea level rise is caused by melting ice-sheets (not by melting ice-bergs).
Glacier National Park
Breaking it Down
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students observe a concrete example of water weathering rocks by freezing a jar of water and then letting the broken jar with ice, un-thaw to illustrate power of ice in weathering rocks.
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.
Wind Cave National Park
Cave Cracks
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
A "cool" demonstration using a block of ice to simulate carbonic acid dissolving away a cave.
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
Erosion: Washing Away the Earth
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Erosion can be a major issue. It is caused by a number of factors, both manmade and natural. The effects of erosion are very evident on Arctic coastal villages that are experiencing storm surges and no longer have the added protection of longer lasting sea ice. Research indicates that both the storm surges and lost of sea ice are the result of climate change.
Haleakalā National Park
Rolling Stones: Haleakalā National Park Rocks!
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson explores the forces of weathering and erosion that shape our island home. It recounts volcanic creation, and then delves into the gradual destruction caused by the forces of wind, water, ice and waves.
Glacier National Park
Model Glaciers
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Using river trough from Unit 2, students place/move frozen ice blocks with gravel/rocks in them through the sand to form glacially carved valleys, cirques, tarn lakes, etc.
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
Uncovering Beringia: The Lost Continent
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Travel back in time to learn about the animals and landscape of Beringia during the last ice age! Students will join a Park Ranger to explore the role of Beringia and Bering Land Bridge National Preserve in the history of human migration into the Americas.
Everglades National Park
Sea Level Rise: Climate Change
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
1. Show what happens to sea level when ice sheets melt. 2. Show what happens to sea level when icebergs melt. 3. Connect sea level changes in Miami to icesheets melting. 4. Explain that sea level changes are caused by melting/freezing of ice sheets in Antarctica/Greenland. 5. Show that communities in Florida will be affected by sea level rise. 6. Realize that South Florida has been under water many times in the geologic past. 7. Discuss ways communities can mitigate/adapt to sea level rise.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
4th Grade: Geology
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will learn that wind, water, and ice are the forces that drive weathering, erosion, and deposition. They will discover that some of these processes occurred long ago, and some are still occurring today. Students will make observations about the rocks and minerals that make up our sand. Students will understand that the dunes at Sleeping Bear are special and that plants that grow on them can change them, too.
Kenai Fjords National Park
Glacier Explorers
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
What is a glacier and how is it formed? What is the difference between an icefield and an icesheet? This program will help young students gain an appreciation for our national parks and learn about Alaska’s glaciers. A park ranger will share the incredible beauty and impressive glacial features of Kenai Fjords National Park with the students, and inspire a sense of wonder and stewardship for the ice that continues to shape our planet.
Glacier National Park
The Story of Snow
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students will listen to “The Story of Snow” and participate in a large-group discussion about the events and elements that form snowflakes.
Olympic National Park
Freeing the Elwha (Salmonid Natural History)
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
How does biological evolution account for the diversity and distribution of salmonid species?
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Understanding the effects of climate change in the past, present, and future. Learn how desert wetlands evolved over time.
Glacier National Park
Rock Ranking
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will sort rocks in various ways from a river gravel bar