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Food for Life

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

Although at first glance the desert may seem to have little in the way of wildlife, it actually contains large, diverse populations. On this field trip, students will take a quarter-mile nature walk combined with directed science exploration to experience the Mojave Desert as one great big giant food bowl. Pre and post-visit activities are included.

Food Chains

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

Food chains reveal how each organism depends on someone else for survival and can help scientists learn more about ecosystems and how to help them stay balanced.

Badlands National Park

Bison Banquet: Food Chains and Food Webs of the Prairie

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

In this lesson students will students will identify the components of a prairie food chain and prairie food web. Students will be able to illustrate the transfer of energy in both a food chain and a food web. Students will also explore how environmental changes impact the food chain and food web.

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.

Niobrara National Scenic River

Food Webs of Niobrara

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This lesson overviews the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers. Students will create their own food webs using plants and animals found in the Niobrara River Valley.

Buffalo National River

Food Web Frenzy

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

This lesson was designed to help students understand the food chain and food webs an ecosystem holds and how one part of the chain affects everything surrounding it and more.

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Bison and the Food Web

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

Image of food web with examples

Haleakalā National Park

Food, Water, Shelter, Space

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

At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to: 1. Demonstrate an understanding that a habitat is a home, and native habitats are the best and only home for native species. 2. Recognize that some plants and animals have specific needs and live in special homes that give them what they need.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Culture: Languages, Food, and Stereotyping

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

Are you animated when you talk? The way we express ourselves is often a combination of culture, family, and individual personality. In this lesson, students will practice reading non-verbal communication cues with peers before reading Josiah Gregg's account of multicultural immersion during the fur trade era. Students will examine his descriptions for cultural stereotype.

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.

Yellowstone National Park

Winter Survival Adaptations: Caching Food

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

Students cache their own "food" to learn about the different strategies used by two different Yellowstone animals and how this helps them survive winter.

Everglades National Park

"Create a Food Chain" Wildlife: 4-6th Grade

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

Our "Wildlife" unit is broken into 15 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.

Everglades National Park

"Food Chain Gang" Everglades ABCs: 2nd Grade

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

Students will be able to define herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore listing three Everglades animals found in each group and will be able to describe three Everglades food chains.

Everglades National Park

"Food Chain Mobile" Everglades ABCs: 2nd Grade

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

Students will build a four part food chain and discuss and demonstrate what happens when one link is removed (an animal or plant becomes extinct).

Where Does Food Come From? - Agriculture and Animal Care at Oxon Hill Farm

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

Learn where your food comes from by exploring historic Oxon Hill Farm. This Field Trip is geared to Pre-K through 3rd grade but is also available for 4th grade and up.

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha ("Local History")

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

What was the life of a homesteader like and what tools from today would make their lives simpler?

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.

Researching Change Over Time in Local Communities

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

By studying change over time in their local community, students will realize that where they live has its own unique history, and different factors contributed to its current state. Students will also understand how to collect and interpret this information and comprehend the value of living people as key information holders in historical research.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Wetland Ecosystems Virtual Program - Grades 3-5

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

This program explores the concept of an ecosystem by focusing on wetlands in the national park. Students will learn about the living and non-living components of wetlands, and how energy passes through local wetland food webs.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

Eat Like an Animal

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

Eating locally and seasonally is more sustainable for us all.