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Olympic National Park
Insects
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This field trip is offered during the fall season and is three-and-a-half hours in duration. Read the program overview for a more detailed description of activities, schedule and Next Generation Science Standards addressed.
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve
Discover Urban Insects!
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Discover what insects are hanging around your town with Dr. Aimee Thomas. Download the application “Seek” or borrow an insect field guide from the library and use those to identify FIVE insects in or around your home! Take notes on what you see to help you identify them next time!
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This activity familiarizes students with the six most populous orders of insects by producing Mini-Books with the name of each order on a separate page, examples of common insects in that order, a picture, identifying characteristics, and an interesting fact.
- 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
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
Tule Springs Biodiversity Hunt
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will identify different species of plants, insects, and animals that live in Tule Springs in a self-guided field experience.
Arches National Park
Life Cycles
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students explore plant changes by performing a play depicting the life cycle of a wildflower through the seasons. They explore life cycles of frogs and toads, along the way discovering the difference between them. Students learn about insect metamorphosis, focusing on moths and butterflies, and discover the surprising world of insect galls.
Arches National Park
Imaginary River Trip
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students take an imaginary river trip -- right in their classrooms. Along the way they explore how humans, animals, and insects use the river to survive.
Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve
Pathways to Discovery - "Scent"sations!
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Use America's largest national park as a pathway to discovery! In this lesson, students learn how insects find one another using their sense of smell through smelling activity.
Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve
What's Great About Great Sand Dunes
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
From supervolcanoes to endemic insects to archaic people, the 'greatness' of Great Sand Dunes amazes even the most seasoned visitors. Hands-on activities and short walks appropriate for all ages and abilities. Inquire at the Visitor Center (719-378-6395) about the availability of Dunes wheelchairs if appropriate.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
White Sands National Monument and "Cook a Lizard" lesson plan cooperating purpose statement: The brilliant white dune field has resulted in extremely rapid and remarkable adaptations in endemic and native flora and fauna. Certain species of insects and rodents have quickly evolved a more whitish coloration.
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
National Park Legacy - Coyotes in our Cities! Grades 3 - 4
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Nature Neighbor Project prioritizes reducing conflicts between humans and wildlife so that they can coexist and share available habitat. Ecologists have learned that coyotes are opportunistic eaters, and they will scavenge through trash as well as feed on traditional foods such as rodents, birds, insects, and grass. Coyote and human conflicts can often be eliminated when human-related food is not available.
Haleakalā National Park
Who Needs Who?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this activity students will become a piece of the environment (nectar, bird, insect, plant, etc.). Through a game, they will come to understand how everything in nature is interconnected, and how changes in the physical environment can have either a negative or positive impact on the survival of a species. It also illustrates that an effect on one factor can influence all the others. The activity concludes with a message of hope and how people can help to protect biodiversity.
National Park of American Samoa
Pest Invaders: The Fight to Stay Native
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The history of life on islands is a story of invasions. Ever since the high islands of American Samoa rose out of the sea as barren piles of volcanic rock, living things have been making the long and dangerous journey across the Pacific to reach this new land. Until a few thousand years ago, every plant, insect, and bird that lived on our islands was the descendant of a lucky adventurer that had crossed hundreds or thousands of miles of open ocean to establish a new colony here.
Glacier National Park
Life in a Log
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The students will investigate decomposers in a rotting log, and discover some of the organisms living there.
Haleakalā National Park
Map Analysis
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Haleakalā National Park protects the biodiversity of endemic species. This activity will introduce students to the boundaries and topography of Haleakalā National Park.
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!
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students will choose a habitat found in Haleakalā National Park and create a model of that habitat inside of a shoebox. The diorama projects will be shared with the class the following day.
Prince William Forest Park
Ranger in a Rucksack
- Type: Media for Loan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Identify trees and leaves all on your own with our innovative 'ranger in a rucksack' program. Self-guided activities and informational tools help you be your own ranger.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The original plant and animal species that colonized the islands had to make various adaptations to better survive in the unique ecosystems on Maui. Students will view maps that show the different ecosystems, the park boundary, and the reality of how it looked both before and after human contact. They will discover if Haleakalā National Park and their protection efforts are working to preserve native species and their native habitats.
Everglades National Park
"Camouflage Critters" Wildlife: 4-6 Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Our "Wildlife" unit is broken into 16 lesson plans, each taking from 20 minutes to several class periods to complete, and targeted mainly at 4th-6th grade students. A class needn't complete every lesson in the unit, though some lessons do refer to one another and are better done in sequence. However, each lesson comes with its own set of objectives and resources.