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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.

Acadia National Park

K-2: Monarch Migration

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students and teacher will read a book about the milkweed plant and monarch butterflies. A local Master Gardener will show students how to plant the seeds and what the growing process will look like. Students will learn about the second phase of this project, to commence in the spring. Students will search for good nectar plants on school grounds.

Niobrara National Scenic River

Butterflies of Niobrara: An Introduction to Hybrids

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

What happens when two species combine? This lesson is a great introduction to the answer. The included activity combines science and art to introduce the concept of hybrids.

Butterflies, Hummingbirds, and Bees Oh My! Pollinators on the Tallgrass Prairie

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

Learn about pollinators.

Indiana Dunes National Park

A Royal Journey

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

The goal of A Royal Journey is to spread the voice on conservation and need of this threatened species. We also strive to bring a scientist’s journey into the concept of the student’s thinking. The dynamic timeliness of necessity has inspired the Indiana Dunes National Park to invite and educate students of today and adults of tomorrow to learn and save this imperiled species.

Acadia National Park

Migration for Lower Elementary

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Explore the topic of migration by examining some of the migrating animals that travel through Acadia. These lessons are designed to take students grades K-2 outside.

Hopewell Culture National Historical Park

PB & J Archeology

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

Learn the principles of archeological site formation and stratigraphy through the creation of a peanut butter and jelly or a yogurt parfait archeological site.

Voyageurs National Park

I Spy

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Why do the leaves fall off the trees in the fall? What happens to the flowers and butterflies in the winter? Students can learn to track seasonal changes around them and why these changes occur.

Arches National Park

Life Cycles

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

Students explore plant changes by performing a play depicting the life cycle of a wildflower through the seasons. They explore life cycles of frogs and toads, along the way discovering the difference between them. Students learn about insect metamorphosis, focusing on moths and butterflies, and discover the surprising world of insect galls.

Stones River National Battlefield

Better Know a Regiment

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

Teachers and students will accompany a ranger by bus or foot in search of the path taken by ancestral Civil War regiments during the Battle of Stones River. Prior research by the students using primary sources and historical documents will allow them to actively participate in the program, not just observe. Students will learn the history of their ancestors, the importance of the Battle of Stones River, and experience firsthand a small part of what the soldiers did more than 150 years ago.

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park

Less Pollution: The Best Solution

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Explore ways to help the environment! Meets Kentucky K-2nd grade science standards. This lesson was created by Kentucky teachers as a part of the History and Science Explore Project.