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Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
Meals for Mammoths
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will use factor label equations to calculate how much food a Mammoth would need to eat.
Lewis and Clark National Historical Park
Me and My Park
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
A shorter ranger-conducted program for Pre-K. Designed for this age group's attention span. Includes science, a walk, and a fort program with a ranger and age appropriate activities.
Mississippi National River & Recreation Area
Take Me to the River
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Take Me to the River is a hands-on educational program designed for fourth graders run out of Hidden Falls Regional Park each fall. The program focuses primarily on the cultural history of the river, but also addresses geography, geology, and physical science through hands-on activities. Students rotate through three activity stations led by National Park Service rangers including orienteering, geocaching, shelter-building, and fire-building.
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.
Lake Clark National Park & Preserve
Can You Identify Me?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will have the opportunity to study and identify fish as really wildlife biologists. They will watch clips taken of salmon swimming up stream through the Silver Salmon Weir in Lake Clark National Park. Their job will be to use their identification cards and see how many salmon they can identify as they swim past. Be careful -- some salmon look awfully similar!
Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve
You Can't See Me
- Type: Field Trips ... Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
On this field trip, students will understand the importance of natural coloration and camouflage in survival, considering the colors of various animals found at the park. They will look for colored items placed in a wooded or grassy area. This outdoor activity could also be done in another natural area or on school grounds.
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park
Lincoln and Me: Exploring the Past and Present
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Childhoods today are very different than they were for Lincoln! Meets Kentucky 2nd grade social studies standards. This lesson was created by Kentucky teachers as a part of the History and Science Explore Project.
Cane River Creole National Historical Park
Virtual Ranger Visit: What Symbolizes Me?
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
As a perfect introduction visit, students will join a Park Ranger in real time to learn about the National Park Service, and the symbolic meanings of the Arrowhead Patch! In an activity that sparks creativity, students will be able to design their own patch that represents themselves.
Whitman Mission National Historic Site
Primarily Me: Primary Sources from Whitman Mission
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Primarily Me is a lesson for older elementary students to explore the various primary sources from Whitman Mission NHS and learn about how primary sources help us learn about the events of the past and how they can be used in different ways.
Everglades National Park
"Tell Me a Story" Native People: 4-6 Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will enjoy listening to a tale passed down by the Seminoles about how the world came to exist. Students will discuss why people told stories both historically and today. Then they can develop their own stories about things they observe in the world around them.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
How can close reading of an informational text help me explore and understand the history of the Blackstone Canal?
Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site
Chuckwagon Flip the Story
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The chuck wagon was an essential part of the success of cattle ranching in the American West. Chuck wagons were the mobile kitchens, a headquarters for communications between members of the unit, and the “house” for cowboys to return to for meals and sleeping while on cattle drives and roundups. The cook, or “cookie,” oversaw the wagon and all the necessities of life which the wagon provided to the cowboys. In this lesson, students will explore information about the cook and the various jobs
Fort Necessity National Battlefield
Traveling the National Road: Unit 4 Accommodations on the National Road
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This unit covers accommodations on the National Road, teaching the students what type of food and places to stay travelers would have found along the road. It includes background information for the teacher, a student reading and two student activities: Food Along the National Road and Objects Now and Then.
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park
Family Matters: The Life of a Slave Family Pre-Visit Activity
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Family was central to Harriet Tubman's life. As she wrote, "I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land; and my home, after all, was down in Maryland; because my father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were there. But I was free, and they should be free." What compelled Tubman to return for her loved ones on multiple trips to guide them to freedom?