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Alaska Public Lands
Marine Mammals Kit
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
With over 6,500 miles of coastline, Alaska has a diversity of marine mammals. This kit provides an opportunity to have fun while learning about these amazing creatures.
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
No Dinosaurs Here, Only Mammals!
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Join an Education Ranger as they introduce students to several species of mammals that once roamed the Nebraska plains during the Miocene epoch some 26-15 Million Years ago. Learn about how climate change, geology and other environmental factors contributed to the evolution and extinction of these species. And some other fun facts as well!
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
Ice Age Mammals of Tule Springs Research Project
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will identify key information about a past species. Students will describe modern relatives of a species found in the fossil record.
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
Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve
Survivor Glacier Bay
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Glacier Bay is a vast wilderness that is home to many animals, including birds, mammals, fish and, historically, people. Through this distance learning program, students will learn that each animal has special adaptations to survive in the cold waters and snowy mountains of Glacier Bay.
Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument
Fossil Teeth: Changing Climates and Evolutionary Responses Preserved in the Fossil Record (Lesson Plan by Geoscientist-in-the-Park Gina Roberti)
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will look at changes in tooth size and shape (morphology) in the fossil record of herbivorous mammals in North America using data from a recent paleontological study. Students will infer factors which caused the observed evolutionary adaptions and link biological adaptation with global climate change and localized habitat change.
Yellowstone National Park
Wolverines and Climate Change
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will demonstrate an understanding of specific adaptations that have prepared the pika and wolverine to survive in cool climates with harsh winter conditions. Students will additionally demonstrate an understanding of timescales and evolution, and how due to the increased speed of global temperature rise, climate change can have negative effects on these mammals despite their ability to adapt.
Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve
Let's Go Whale Watching in Glacier Bay!
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Glacier Bay is home to one of the world's most intriguing marine mammals - the endangered Humpback Whale. Come join a Glacier Bay Park Ranger on an interactive journey to learn more about this endangered species. Students will take a look at how Humpback Whales interact with their environment and what Park Researchers are doing to protect them.
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.
Kenai Fjords National Park
Supper Sea
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Supper Sea is a National Park Service published educational book focused on the humpback whales that visit Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska. Humpback whales migrate over 2,500 miles to feed in Alaska’s cold waters. Why do they make such a long journey for lunch? A National Park Ranger will answer this question and more. The ranger will engage students with photos, story time, and song to broaden their understanding of this showy marine mammal.
National Park of American Samoa
What is a Fruit Bat?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Fruit bats are considered the only native mammal in American Samoa thus earning the right to be protected within the National Park of American Samoa. Local folklore casts a dark image on fruitbats, portraying them as sinister and devious creatures with connections to the spirit world. These superstitions undermine their ecological importance to the native tropical rainforest. Fruit bats help transfer pollen from one tree to another and are also important for seed dispersal.
National Park of American Samoa
Fruit Bats Are Our Friends
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Fruit bats are considered the only native mammal in American Samoa thus earning the right to be protected within the National Park of American Samoa. Local folklore casts a dark image on fruit bats, portraying them as sinister and devious creatures with connections to the spirit world. These superstitions undermine their ecological importance to the native tropical rainforest. Fruit bats help transfer pollen from one tree to another and are also important for seed dispersal.
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
Indoor and Outdoor Field Trips
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
On site field trips are the best way for students to connect with where fossils were found and where James Cook ranched and became friends with Red Cloud. Agate Fossil Beds field trips include indoor programs about mammal fossils, historic excavations, American Indian culture and artifacts. Guided hikes on the park's two trails explore the historic dig sites, interesting trace fossils and the natural wonders of mixed grass prairie and Niobrara River.
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.
Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve
Echolocation in Action
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students dive in, taking on the role of a killer whale using echolocation to find prey and learning about the role of sound in the underwater world.
Acadia National Park
I Notice I Wonder: Porcupine
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
I notice I wonder is a series of videos of natural occurrences. Schoodic peninsula has many resident porcupines. Watch and make observations about this one as a class!
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Activities for children to learn about sea otters in Alaska.