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Gateway Arch National Park

MO Outdoor Rangers

Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Splash your way through a week of water fun. Paddle your way through our great Missouri waterways, build a creek dam and explore nature’s water creatures, and catch a big one fishing the shores of Missouri’s parks and public lands.

Hard Core Rock

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

Students are introduced to the study of geology. They will learn about what is hidden beneath the surface of the Earth and how the geology of the Earth gives shape to the landscape. They will learn about the theory of plate tectonics and how the movement of these plates affects the world around us.

Scotts Bluff National Monument

Geology Rocks: The Geology of Scotts Bluff

Type: Guest Speakers
Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Learn more about the geologic forces that have shaped, and continue to shape, Scotts Bluff.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

3D Modeling and Scale

Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Construct a topographic model of Mount Rushmore. After the model is completed, students use concepts of scale and proportion (similarity concept in math) to calculate the scale of their model by comparing to real-life measurements.

Marvel? DC? Nope - SC!!!!

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

Using storyboard, cartoon make, comic book maker.org or the document added the student will create their own story. Picking 2 battles they will develop 2 4-6 frame comics

Rocky Mountain National Park

Every Rock Has a Story

Type: Distance Learning
Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Don't take these rocks for granite! Students will become geologists who learn how to describe and identify rocks by their family-sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic. Students will apply their knowledge to uncover the geologic story of Rocky Mountain National Park.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Scaling Around Cowpens National Battlefield

Type: Student Activities
Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The student will be able to read symbols on maps, to follow directions, to measure, and to use computation skills to answer questions. The student will be able to recognize the usefulness of mathematics in everyday life.

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

War Has Been Declared: Elementary Lesson Plan

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

Students create a timeline of events leading to the Civil War based on a series of articles from the National Park Service. Students will explore the issue of slavery as a major cause starting with the Missouri Compromise, The Dred Scott Decision, The Election of Lincoln, John Brown's Raid, and the numerous states secessions. Then, students become part of a regiment and complete hands-on activities as they discover the structure of an army.

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

War Has Been Declared: Middle School Lesson Plan

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

Students analyze the primary document, the Emancipation Proclamation and how it affected the Civil War and southern states. They work in teams to creatively share learned information from NPS videos about one of the final pushes in the Civil War, the Atlanta Campaign through Georgia. They listen to and draw meaning from soldier and author, Ambrose Bierce.

Petroglyph National Monument

How the Early Railroads Changed New Mexico

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

This is a lesson that can be used to teach geography, history and economics using pictures, maps and scale models.

Glacier National Park

"The Measure of a Man's Success in Life is Not the Money He's Made. It's the Kind of Family He Has Raised.": Separating the Myth from Reality in the Life and Times of Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr.

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

This lesson plan allows high school students to identify who Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. was and his role in United States history. Students will examine Kennedy family photographs, letters from Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. to his family, and quotes from Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., to form their understanding of his influence. Students will evaluate the ways in which historians form complex understandings of controversial historical figures.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Math at Mount Rushmore for Grades 6, 7 and 8

Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students recognize shapes in Mount Rushmore, whether it’s 2D shapes through a series of 2D drawings, or 3D shapes through measurable PDF’s of the 3D model of Mount Rushmore. Learners use geometric formulas to calculate the volumes of these shapes based on scaled representations and effectively use understanding of scale to translate these calculations to life-size.

Acadia National Park

Age of Exploration

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

There are many different ways to look at history ranging from a broad view of major events on a global scale to a small scale looking at specific local events. We start out with the big picture: how, when and why did the Europeans cross the Atlantic to a land that had been inhabited for thousands of years then look at an example of the cultural interface close to home.

Fossil Butte National Monument

Geology, Relatives, and Time

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

Using a simple three or four generation family tree, students construct a relatives time tree that mimics the major divisions of the geologic time scale, Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic.

Glacier National Park

Painted Lodges

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

Students learn about the uniqueness of lodge designs and connection with animals. They use art skills to design their own lodges, write explanations of, and share designs. An optional activity is to construct a scale model lodge.

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve

French and Indian War Activity

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

Representing the competing interests of the European nations on a global scale, set in the North American contenient. These battles ultimately shaped political and cultural divisions across the world, especially here in Louisiana that are still felt today!

Colorado National Monument

Little Explorers: A Nature Adventure for K-2 Learners

Type: Field Trips
Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Topics: Plants & Animals, Explorer Skills, Using Senses | This program for lower elementary engages natural interests in discovery and adventure on a small scale through a guided scavenger hunt, a coloring activity, acting as local animals, and dancing out the needs of plants.

Graphing the Wounded - Wrapping it all up

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

Students will research information to find information about the number of wounded from both patriot and British forces from the SC revolutionary battles: Battle of Camden, Battle of Waxhaws, Kings Mountain, and Cowpens. They will then create a graph that compares the number both injured and fatally wounded.

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site

Theodore’s Childhood Influences

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

This lesson has students examine how childhood has a lasting impact throughout life.

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