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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.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Watching the Watershed

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

We’ll use a model of a watershed to investigate how water moves through our landscape and have a chance to make our own model to test in the classroom.

Everglades National Park

"The Water Watch" Water: 4-6 Grade

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

The student will be able to: a) list two reasons why water conservation is necessary for the preservation of the Everglades, b) list two ways in which they can increase community involvement in water conservation, and c) produce a petition which lists ways to conserve water and get at least one hundred signatures on their petition.

Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve

Let's Go Whale Watching in Glacier Bay!

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

Glacier Bay is home to one of the world's most intriguing marine mammals - the endangered Humpback Whale. Come join a Glacier Bay Park Ranger on an interactive journey to learn more about this endangered species. Students will take a look at how Humpback Whales interact with their environment and what Park Researchers are doing to protect them.

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.

Glacier National Park

Mature Forest Mime

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

Students learn forest terminology and ecological concepts through pantomiming and watching pantomiming.

Acadia National Park

I Notice, I Wonder: Bar Island

• Type: Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Learn about the tidal differences in Acadia with this quick "I notice, I wonder" activity watching the changes at Bar Island.

Johnstown Flood National Memorial

Johnstown Flood Museum: Academy-Award winning film, "The Johnstown Flood"

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

Students will enter the museum theater to watch the 26-minute Academy Award winning film for Best Documentary, Short Subject.

Acadia National Park

I Notice I Wonder: Seafoam on the Coast

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

I notice I wonder is an opportunity for students to watch videos and explore phenomena in Acadia National Park. Sea foam is a unique part of the coastline.

Acadia National Park

I Notice I Wonder: Porcupine

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

I notice I wonder is a series of videos of natural occurrences. Schoodic peninsula has many resident porcupines. Watch and make observations about this one as a class!

Acadia National Park

I Notice, I Wonder: Bullfrog

• Type: Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

I notice, I wonder is an observation based method of inquiry to generate student curiosity about the natural world. Watch the video on bullfrogs and discuss observations as a group.

Virtual Field Trip

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

Wish you could be there in person? Experience the next best thing - the Virtual Field Trip. Virtually explore the fort's interior and exterior, watch the ranger videos, and more!

Fort Vancouver National Historic Site

Virtual Field Trip to Fort Vancouver

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

Join us for a virtual field trip of Fort Vancouver! Students will watch videos, participate in activities, and read about the lives of kids who lived and worked at Fort Vancouver.

Acadia National Park

Virtual:Grades 7-10: Physics of Acadia: Ocean Waves

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Ocean waves are fascinating to watch, but how are they formed? Explore and learn about the interaction between sunlight, wind, and water and how they create waves using basic principles of physics. (1 hour)

Acadia National Park

I Notice I Wonder: Snake Slither

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

I notice I wonder videos can be used to investigate the living world. Acadia has 5 different types of snakes. Watch a video of a snake slithering and see what questions can be generated.

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

Carl Sandburg's Connemara (Grades K-2)

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

The purpose of this lesson is for students to watch a video to learn about Connemara. Students will analyze objects found in the home and explain what they learn about Carl Sandburg based on the objects that he collected in his home.

Getting to Know your Forest

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

In this mini unit students will identify an outdoor space with trees that they would like to observe. They will count the amount of live trees and dead trees (snags). They will watch for changes over time and share the data they collect with others.

Big Cypress National Preserve

Let the Water Flow

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

Students will watch an interactive video produced by Big Cypress National Preserve. The video will cover various topics of hydrology in the Big Cypress Watershed, allowing students to participate in answering/solving questions regarding the flow of water.

Mammoth Cave National Park

Clay Caves

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

This lesson plan is from "Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3", which comprises ten lessons. This is lesson 8 of that set. Students can watch a cave form in their model landform.