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Assateague Island National Seashore

Marine Explorers

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Using basic sampling and collecting equipment, students explore the island from beach to bay to learn how the habitats weave together to form a barrier island ecosystem. This program is designed for returning groups and groups that are studying barrier island ecosystems. Students will get wet to their knees. Wear snug footwear and clothing that can get wet. This program is designed for 7th-12th grade, and lasts 1.5 hours. *Note: Offered until mid-October.

National Park of American Samoa

Harmful Marine Debris

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

Students complete a form that requires them to make decisions about how severely different types of marine debris affect animals, people, vessels, and habitat. As a class, results are totaled and analyzed to determine which types of marine debris are most harmful to the different categorizes.

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.

National Park of American Samoa

Marine Wildlife and Harmful Trash

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

Students listen to descriptions of marine wildlife and identify marine debris items that could harm them. Students perform an experiment in which they wrap a rubber band around their fingers and across the back of their hand and try to disentangle them. As a class, students discuss their thoughts and reactions and relate to real animals.

Acadia National Park

Virtual: Grades 6-8: Marine Chemistry

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

Sea water is more than just H2O (water) and NaCl (salt). It is also made up of minerals, nutrients, and dissolved gasses that marine plants and animals need to survive. Learn about the chemistry of the ocean and why it is so important to marine and human life. (1 hour)

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha: "Marine-Derived Nutrients from Salmon"

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Through this activity, students will learn how the carcasses of dead adult salmon support young salmon and how salmon are essential to the marine food web as well as the freshwater ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest.

Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve

Mars Traveling Trunk

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Journey through time and space, through the geography and geology of sand dunes, and the feats of engineering that make such exploration possible.

Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site

Mary McLeod Bethune Virtual Experience

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

The Mary McLeod Bethune Virtual Exhibit highlights some of the significant achievements in her life of leadership and service.

Fort Donelson National Battlefield

Civil War Nurse Mary A. Newcomb

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

Nineteenth century women and young girls were restricted by societal norms and customs, particularly what was perceived as appropriate choices for their education or careers. It was acceptable by 1860 for women to become teachers, but not so for women who wanted to serve as doctors or nurses. Through her efforts and struggles as a volunteer, Mary Ann Newcomb became recognized as a nurse in the United States Military, achieving a pension for her four-year service.

Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site

Negro League Baseball and its Connection to Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune

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

Learn about Mary McLeod Bethune and the National Council of Negro Women's collaboration with the Homestead Grays baseball team during World War II to raise the funds to build the S.S. Harriet Tubman.

Discover the Mary Ann Shadd Cary House: A Lightning Lesson from Teaching with Historic Places

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

Before the end of legal slavery in the United States, free African Americans migrated to Canada to find greater security and liberty. After the Civil War, some returned to the U.S. to aid emancipated people and rebuild the South. Mary Ann Shadd Cary was a business woman, abolitionist, and suffragist.

Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site

“It’s Up, and It’s Good!” Negro League Baseball and its Connection to Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune

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

This lesson will explore the powerful relationship between the National Council of Negro Women and Negro League Baseball. Students will discuss the important contributions, struggles and triumphs players experienced. Students will also understand the meaning of patriotism, and observe documented oral histories while using multi-media devices (Photo Story, PowerPoint, VoiceThread etc.) to demonstrate learning.

Olympic National Park

North Olympic Watershed (N.O.W.) Science Program

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

Working with the Feiro Marine Life Center and the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, the N.O.W. Science program is an inquiry based exploration of the Peabody Creek watershed.

Olympic National Park

Overfishing and Fisheries Collapses

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This activity focuses on the recent collapse of marine fisheries across the world due to increased commercial fishing pressures, a result of increased technology coupled with the changing climate of marine environments related to greenhouse gas pollution.

Olympic National Park

Salmon Nutrient Cycling

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This activity helps students learn how marine-derived nutrients from salmon carcasses find their way into terrestrial environments and how scientists can track these marine-derived nutrients to analyze their importance to ecosystems today, as well as reconstructing past ecosystem processes.

Cape Hatteras National Seashore

Little Kinnakeet Life-Saving Station: Home to Unsung Heroes

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

Why did the Federal Government take an active role in protecting mariners by creating the U.S. Life-Saving Service?

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

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.

Acadia National Park

Life Between the Tides

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

What happens to marine animals when the tide goes out? Learn about the challenges that these animals face at low tide and how their adaptations help them to survive.

Acadia National Park

Virtual: Grades 6-8, Between the Tides

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

What happens to marine animals when the tide goes out? Learn about the challenges that these animals face at low tide and how their adaptations help them to survive. (1 hour)