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- 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.
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: 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.
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve
Explore Barataria! Invasive Species – Water Hyacinth
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn about one invasive species present at the Barataria Preserve, called the Water Hyacinth. Then see if you can you answer all of the questions and teach a sibling, friend, parent, or guardian about control measures for invasive species.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Water Those? Aquatic Invasive Species at Sleeping Bear
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Water Those? program will introduce your students to aquatic invasive species, how they impact our ecosystems, and what we can do to help.
Cowpens National Battlefield
The Cowpens Landscape Today: Native, Exotic, and Invasive Species
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
To demonstrate to students how exotic and invasive species are changing the Cowpens National Battlefield landscape in context of comparative changes,nationwide.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
5th Grade: Dunes Food Web
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will understand the components of a food web and how they interact. They will create a food web based off a “mini ecosystem” that was marked out along the trail. They will define “invasive species” and identify common invasive species in our area.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will learn about the Great Lakes and be introduced to the ecological impact of invasive species in this region. An optional pre-site program is designed to orient students to terminology used by land managers when controlling invasive species. Students will watch the virtual program in which National Park Service rangers will talk about the Great Lakes and introduce the concept of invasive species to classrooms. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist focus on sea lamprey and their control.
Haleakalā National Park
Hō‘ike o Haleakalā: High School Science Curriculum
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This curriculum will introduce students and their families to the marine, coastal, rain forest, invasive species and alpine-aeolian ecosystems of Haleakalā National Park.
Saguaro National Park
Understanding Percent Using Buffelgrass
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The objective of this lesson is to help students learn and understand percentages while also learning about the significance of buffelgrass, an invasive plant in the Sonoran Desert.
Haleakalā National Park
Autobiographies of Extinct and Endangered Species
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson is about why species become endangered or extinct. Students will do a case study of one extinct and one endangered species. The two biggest threats to a species survival are invasive species and habitat loss. Students will learn what an invasive species is and see visuals of habitat loss on Maui. Without intervention and management, these endangered species could disappear within the students’ lifetime.
Lake Mead National Recreation Area
5th Grade Virtual Field Trip - Exotic Invaders
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
A virtual trip to the Shoreline Trail introduces students to the food webs of Lake Mead National Recreation Area along with how invasive species are causing change.
Everglades National Park
"Unwanted Guests" Don't Let It Loose: 5-8th Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Everglades is home to many species of animals, fifteen of which are considered endangered. The invasion of exotic species is a threat to native species. Removing exotics from the Everglades is expensive and not always successful.
Eisenhower National Historic Site
"The Great Crusade:" Ike and the Men of D-Day
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This program allows students to use virtual resources to learn more about the 1944 Invasion of Normandy by exploring the lives of several men who took part in it, as well as the leadership of the man who orchestrated and commanded it, General Dwight D. Eisenhower. This program will explore multiple parts of General Eisenhower’s leadership in the D-Day invasion, as well as real stories of soldiers who were killed on D-Day and are now buried in Gettysburg National Cemetery.
Acadia National Park
Phenology for Upper Elementary Classes
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Phenology is the study of when natural cues in the environment happen and how those cues can change over time. This unit ranges from seed dispersal, to plant identification, to invasive species.
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Malama ‘āina: It's our kuleana! Grades 5-12
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will gain a better understanding of the concept of mālama 'āina and its importance to the future; the concept of biodiversity and its general importance; understand what an invasive alien species is; and, understand what native species are and the importance of healthy native forests to humans.