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Cowpens National Battlefield

This Land is Your Land

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This Land is Your Land is an interesting and aggressive lesson that incorporates research, hands on activities and on-site learning to illustrate and reinforce how the geographic features of Upstate South Carolina contributed to the Patriot strategy in their ultimate success at the Battle of Cowpens, 1781

Homestead National Historical Park

Land Use

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In "Land Use," students discuss how people live and survive in their environments. The Homesteaders, Immigrants, and Native Americans unit is broken up into five lesson plans, taking 45-120 minutes to complete, targeting sixth through eighth grade students. A class does not have to complete every lesson in the unit - each lesson comes with its own set of objectives and resources. This is lesson 3 of the unit.

Glacier National Park

Stewards of the Land

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students learn about the four main tribes associated with the Glacier area. Then watch videos with tribal leaders and elders talking about their tribe’s relationship to Glacier National Park and why they feel it’s important to take care of the park. Students will reflect/discuss messages in the videos and write a contemporary story that teaches about caring for the Earth. Homework: Student Reading 1: People and Glacier National Park.

Denali National Park & Preserve

Lessons from the Land

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

How have Alaska Natives, gold rush prospectors, hunter-naturalists, and visitors to Denali National Park and Preserve made use of this land through time? Find out in this fun, history-rich program, where we explore multiple land-use perspectives from past to present, and ultimately look forward into the future.

Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve

Land of Many Opportunists

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Through this activity, students will learn how aggressive exotic species take advantage of a wide range of resources in order to expand their range and compete in a nonnative habitat.

Haleakalā National Park

He Aha Lā He Kūkulu?

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Kekahi hale Hawaiʻi ma kahi o Ka Pāka Aupuni Ma Ka Moku O Kīpahulu

Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park

Learning the Land and The Passaic River & Water Power

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

A two-part environmental science program that invites students to learn about the formation of the Paterson Great Falls and how they have been used to create power.

Bering Land Bridge National Preserve

Virtual Tour of Bering Land Bridge National Preserve

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Welcome to Bering Land Bridge National Preserve! Join us from the comfort of your own classroom as we explore one of the nation’s most remote national park units. Learn about the rugged and wild landscape of the tundra and what it takes for plants and animals to survive in this challenging environment.

Petrified Forest National Park

Every Kid In a Park - Exploring Public Lands and Waters

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Every Kid in a Park: Grade 4, 30 minutes in the park (45-60 min pre-visit lesson) Students meet a ranger in the park for a 30 minute question and answer session. This program can be conducted at any overlook or trail in the park. 4th grader passes are issued to the class at the end of the program.

Alaska Public Lands

Live Virtual Visits to the Alaska Public Lands Visitor Center

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

The Alaska Public Lands Information Center, hosts exhibits representing natural, historical, and cultural features throughout the state. Wandering among the exhibits, visitors get a mini tour of Alaska. One can also learn about recreating on public lands in the state as well as materials for educators to bring back to their classrooms.

Arches National Park

Moving Rocks

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students explore how weathering and erosion form the landforms seen at Arches National Park.

Gateway Arch National Park

ECO Rangers Summer Camp

• Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Explore what lives in our lakes, ponds, streams, forests, and prairie lands. Do the same macros live in the creeks and ponds? What birds and animals live in the prairie lands vs woodlands? Fish the lakes and rivers, fine tune your archery marksmanship, net for macros in ponds, and search for the birds in our Missouri’s public lands.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Learn at the Ledges

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Hike the Ledges and discover how geologic processes have shaped the land. Look for evidence of how erosion and deposition have changed the land, examine how weathering occurs and explore the rocks that make up the Ledges.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Northeast Ohio Geology Virtual Program - Grades 3-5

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This program focuses on earth science by exploring the Ledges area of the national park. Students will learn about local landforms and discover how geologic processes including erosion, deposition, and weathering continue to shape northeast Ohio.

Mammoth Cave National Park

Clay Caves

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

This lesson plan is from "Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3", which comprises ten lessons. This is lesson 8 of that set. Students can watch a cave form in their model landform.

Zion National Park

Earth's Features: Interpreting Patters with Topographic Maps

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will identify a landform around them and create their own topographic map. They will also build a mountain out of playdough and divide the mountain into sections, which they will use to make a topographic map that shows contour lines, elevation changes, and gradients.

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha (River Flows and Sediment Movement)

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Seasonal weather patterns affect the flow patterns of water into the rivers (and watersheds) of Western North America. What landform features can form when erosion is caused by fast –moving water from Spring and Fall rains, and snowpack melt off?

Cape Lookout National Seashore

Horse Genetics and Evolution: Shackleford Horses Unit

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This lesson plan will cover 6th-8th grade genetics and evolution relating everything back to the horses on Shackleford Banks, NC. The students will be able to construct arguments based on evidence that organisms and landforms change over time and recognize patterns of heredity from Punnett Squares and Pedigree Analysis.

Alaska Public Lands

Ask an Alaskan Ranger!

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Fulfill your students' curiosity about Alaska by speaking with a park ranger at the Alaska Public Lands Information Center!

Whiskeytown National Recreation Area

The Wintu of Whiskeytown

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Image of California’s Native American tribe boundaries with the Wintu traditional lands in Northern California labeled with a pin mark.