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Olympic National Park

Students will be able to draw and label a macroinvertebrate.

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

Students will be able to draw and label a macroinvertebrate.

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

Haleakalā National Park

ʻĀhinahina Haleakalā

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

Eia ihola ke kiʻi o nā ʻĀhinahina ma Haleakalā. Akāka ke kiʻi o ka ʻĀhinahina mākua.

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.

Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area

Field Studies Programs

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

Active, place-based learning about life and earth science, nature, technology, and history with the National Park in your backyard!

Olympic National Park

What's Living Around Me?

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

Students will explore and investigate 4 different areas around campus (mud puddle, rocky parking lot, grass field, tree base) to determine other living things in those areas and what they might need from those areas.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Biological Indicators

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Macroinvertebrates can be found in bodies of water buried in sediments and detritus or attached to rocks or plants. They are visible without magnification and can be used by scientists to measure water quality. In this lesson, introduce your students to these organisms and to the use of a dichotomous key. Students will hone basic identification skills to increase the reliability of data they may collect during a visit to Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

Olympic National Park

What Do Salmon Need To Survive?

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

Students will be able to determine if salmon raised at school will survive in a local water source by testing conditions.

Lowell National Historical Park

Do History and Science at the Tsongas Industrial History Center

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

Science, History and many more field trip opportunities for your students at Lowell National Historical Park!

Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical Park

Building Stewardship Through Science - Mercury in Our Environment

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

By working with various partners, including Dartmouth College's Toxic Metals Research Program, students determine mercury levels in macroinvertebrates taken from the Pogue (pond) in Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP. Students learn how mercury moves through air, water, and through the food chain. By reading Marsh, learning about Billings and Rockefeller, students will cultivate a sense of stewardship and reflect on their own choices.

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

Peace Picnics and Community in Hopedale

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

In 1842, a group of like-minded individuals created a commune called Hopedale. Under the leadership of minister Adin Ballou, people came to Hopedale to live out their values, which included Christian non-resistance and abolition. In this lesson, students will read primary source accounts about anti-slavery meetings and celebrations independence in Hopedale, MA and consider how people use speeches and print to make persuasive arguments.