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Hamilton Grange National Memorial

Educator's Guide (Middle School/High School)
  • Type: Field Trips ... Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site

Test the Waters - Middle School
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students explore their connections to water and participate in hands-on field research by collecting water quality data.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

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

Students will compare the biotic and abiotic factors of a forest and a dune ecosystem, enabling them to discover why the dunes are a challenging, yet unique ecosystem. Students will also learn that animals and plants have developed adaptations that help them live or travel through the dunes.

Governors Island National Monument

Middle School Traveling Trunks
  • Type: Traveling Trunk
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Packed with lesson plans, primary source documents, reproduction artifacts, movies, and more, our Traveling Trunks are a ready-made and easy way to make New York City and U.S. history tangible to students.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

The World of Tardigrades (Middle School)
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this field trip, middle school students will be introduced to the microscopic world that thrives in lichens including Tardigrade characteristics, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory and man-made threats. This packet is broken into three parts including activities at the park, a preparation activity and two wrap-up activities.

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

Students are given the opportunity to research a topic of their choice related to threats that exist to the biodiversity of our planet.

Women's Rights National Historical Park

Rights and Privileges- Middle School Level
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This program will share the story of the Seneca Falls 1848 Convention for Woman's Rights. The program consists of several assignments designed to help students recognize the difference between a right and a privilege and apply their knowledge to those who organized and attended the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Water Quality Monitoring - Middle School
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Cane River Creole National Historical Park

Ranger-Led Field Trips (Middle School)
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Join a Park Ranger for a Ranger-Led field trip experience. Learn with historic places, and take part in a guided walking tour with hands-on activities that meet Louisiana learning standards. Explore the unique resources of the Cane River area, and the stories of the people who lived here.

Cane River Creole National Historical Park

Teacher-Led Field Trips (Middle School)
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Visit Cane River Creole National Historical Park for your trip experience. Learn with historic places, and take part in a self guided tour, with opportunities to learn about science, history, and more. Explore the unique resources of the Cane River area, and the stories of the people who lived here.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

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

The application period for the Winter 2024/25 Winter Exp programming season is open as of September 1, 2024. Students will be guided through age-appropriate programming related to watersheds, climate change, and winter ecology. Funds for busing reimbursements are available, and will be considered on a first come, first served basis.

Women's Rights National Historical Park

Be a Women's Rights Influencer- Middle School Level
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will research women’s rights and reform advocates from the nineteenth century. Students will choose one activist and act as their social media manager. Students will create a social media plan for the platform of their choice and highlight their reformer’s story.

Women's Rights National Historical Park

Virtual Scavenger Hunt- Middle School Level
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Participants will navigate different online sources, using the links provided, to answer the questions about the key details of the 1848 Women’s Rights Convention and important aspects of the larger Women’s Movement.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Salamander Research Field Trip (Middle School)
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Researchers use salamanders as a bio-indicator to help assess the health of our forests threatened by air pollution and impacts from a changing climate. When students visit the Smokies on their field trip, one group will be collecting data as part of a Salamander study. The pre, onsite, and post-visit activities in this packet will introduce the scientific method and use the identifying anatomical characteristics to key different species of salamanders.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Snails as Bioindicators of Acid Deposition - Middle School
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Teachers can use this field trip packet to help their middle school students better understand how snails are an important part of the soil’s food chain and why scientists are concerned about their population due to the links between calcium availability in soil and acid deposition. It includes onsite activities, a preparation activity and a wrap-up activity.

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

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

The United States was still a new country in the 1800s; a new country with a lot of growing pains. Students will experience the growing tension between the country's North and South. They will study maps and apply the information to make a chart of states that were considered free or slave status. They will work together to read and analyze primary documents written about states' rights, nullification, the Compromise of 1850, the Dred Scott Decision, and the Election of 1860.

Grand Canyon National Park

Looking Back Through Geologic Time: Middle School
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students analyze Grand Canyon’s rocks to understand how interactions of the geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere have changed over time. Through observation and inquiry, students model the processes of weathering, erosion, and deposition through geologic time. Arizona Science Standard: 8.E1U1.6

Women's Rights National Historical Park

Create Your Own Exhibit- Middle School Level
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Participants will use objects they find in their homes to curate their own Women’s Movement museum exhibit. The museum exhibit will demonstrate the participants understanding of an important event in the Woman’s Movement or a key theme, as well as link their exhibit to other events in the movement.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Tree Phenology Monitoring - Middle School Field Trip
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is using phenology, the study of biological events that change in response to their environment, to investigate the changing climate. This middle school field trip packet includes onsite activities along with two preparation activities and two wrap-up activities.

Andersonville National Historic Site

August Anguish at Andersonville: A Middle School Math Lesson
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The Graves of Andersonville in August