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Cowpens National Battlefield
Plant Life-Native and Invasive
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The students will study the native and invasive species of plants at the Cowpens battlefield and will document and briefly explain the efforts of the part system to restore the battlefield to its original state,
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This activity will introduce students to some of the invasive species that pose a threat to native species in Haleakalā National Park. Students will learn how to identify different invasive species and will create an invasive species poster to share with their classmates.
Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical Park
Invasive Invaders
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
By being directly involved with real issues and problems, students learn the skills and create a desire to be proactive with non-native invasive species.
Olympic National Park
Plants
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This field trip investigates the diversity of plants within Olympic National Park as well as the basics of plant reproduction.
Arches National Park
Plant Adaptations
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students explore the structures of plants and their functions by comparing desert and riparian plant adaptations. Students engineer mechanisms to help seeds travel, and design their own plants in the classroom.
Acadia National Park
Plant Adaptation Hunt
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students will be able explore their outdoor space and identify and investigate plant adaptations.
Acadia National Park
Biodiversity: Plant Identification
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
In this second part of a study of leaves, students will use their knowledge of attributes including leaf shape, edges and arrangement to identify many of the different plants, shrubs and trees in a selected nearby area, such as an outdoor classroom. Use data to create a field guide to plants (including bushes & trees) in the local habitat.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students begin this activity listening to a children’s storybook that teaches them about a science concept. They will then be challenged to use their creativity to write a children’s story that young children could read to learn about invasive species. In the process of writing the book, their understanding of invasive species and their impact on the environment will be further enhanced.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This activity encourages students / teachers to make a difference in the area they live in and either (1) educate the public about invasive species, (2) change your lifestyle to prevent introduction of invasive species, or (3) take on a project to highlight and/or eradicate an invasive species in your area. After an introduction to the learning objective, student groups start to brainstorm ideas of things they can do in their community and create an action plan.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
There are many different and varied invasive species, but for this lesson the key points are that the species is (1) not native and (2) causes harm to either the economy or the environment. This activity will allow students to focus on one invasive species and present the information that they find about their species to classmates in a classroom go-around at the end of their research.
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
Invasive Species in the Great Lakes
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
A classroom-based program that reviews pre-site and field trip lessons about animal adaptation, survival, and their ecosystems. This is part three of a three part series, but can be done independent of the prior two activities/field trip.
Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park
How do plants work?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Standard: S1L1 Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the basic needs of plants and animals
Stones River National Battlefield
Adaptation of Plants to Cedar Glades
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will be able to describe the adaptations that are required and present in plants that are found in the cedar glades.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
By playing the card game and filling out the worksheet, students reinforce the concepts of different adaptations by different plants to ensure survival
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Cultural Uses of Native Plants
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this field trip through Kīpuka Puaulu students will discover the importance of biodiversity, the traditional Hawaiian uses of native plants, the continued value of these plants into the modern era and an appreciation for the ongoing need to protect Hawai‘i's natural resources.
Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
Investigating Tallgrass Prairie Plants
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
By growing and comparing plants, students discover how prairie plants differ from other plants and how prairie plants and the environment benefit from these differences.
Acadia National Park
Outdoor Plant Adaptation Hunt
- Type: Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
What adaptations do plants have to help them survive? This activity explores outdoors and gets children looking at plants.
Shenandoah National Park
1st Grade | Plant and Animal Detectives
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Plants and animals live all around us and each one has the same life needs. Students will explore Shenandoah National Park to discover the different plants and animals that live in the park. Students will investigate how, where and why plants and animals meet their life needs in their respective environments and how Shenandoah National Park provides protection for plants and animals.
Olympic National Park
Exploring Our Local Plant Life
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students will be able to make observations of different plants that live in their local habitat. By the end of the lesson students will be able to compare the similarities and differences of their local plant life to the plant life in the coastal region of the Olympic National Park.
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
Hidatsa Tribe Use of Prairie Plants
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Do your students need practice finding and utilizing information on a website? This lesson uses the Knife River Indian Villages NHS Park Stewards project on the nationally acclaimed iNaturalist website to accomplish this objective. Students will have fun exploring the site while learning how the Hidatsa and other Plains Indian tribes used the native prairie.