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Governors Island National Monument
Get Fort-ified
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Fridays at 10 AM. Meet a variety of interesting people from the past who lived and worked on Governors Island, and helped make history happen! Kids will meet people of all stripes, from soldiers to prisoners and laundresses from throughout history.
Hot Springs National Park
How the Water Gets Hot
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will explore rock outcroppings, look for evidence of the water recharge area, and examine the emerging hot springs to learn about the stories of rocks and water millions of years in the making. This program introduces students to this portion of the ancient Ouachita Mountain Range, and the remarkable waters that bubble up after a 4,400-year-old journey. Designed for 4th and 5th grade geology lessons.
- 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.
Rocky Mountain National Park
What are National Parks?
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
What is a National Park and what were they created to protect? Meet with a ranger to investigate the meaning behind each symbol within the National Park Service emblem and explore various NPS sites across the country.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will analyze the arrowhead logo as an introduction to the National Park Service. Students learn how the design of the National Park Service arrowhead is made up of symbols, and then have a chance to create their own design specific to Hawai‘i. We will then be introducing ways that we can help care for our parks through the 7 Leave No Trace principles, and help students to understand that the National Parks belong to each and every one of us!
National Park of American Samoa
What is a National Park?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The National Park of American Samoa is one of over 400 units of the National Park Service. This activity helps students explore and understand the various units in the system.
Haleakalā National Park
What is a National Park?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will analyze the arrowhead logo as an introduction to the National Park Service, an agency whose mission is to protect and preserve natural and cultural resources for future generations and provide visitors with opportunities for recreation and learning. Students learn how the design of the National Park Service arrowhead is made up of symbols, and then have a chance to create their own design specific to Hawai‘i.
Haleakalā National Park
What Is A National Park?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to determine how Haleakalā National Park protects special native habitats and how the students can help protect them too.
Haleakalā National Park
What Is A National Park?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to determine how Haleakalā National Park protects cultural and natural resources and how the students can help protect them too.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This activity challenges students to look at different pictures of national park sites and try to guess which park the picture represents. The pictures page gives a distinguishing feature of each park and an interesting fact to help students match to the list of possible choices.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Symbolism in National Parks
- Type: Distance Learning ... Primary Sources ... Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
History of the iconic NPS Arrowhead logo, and a dive into what symbols are, and how we use them. Students will get activities to create their own symbols about their lives.
Glacier National Park
Create a National Park
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students create a mini-national park in a specified outdoor area, marking a nature trail and providing visitors with information about the park.
Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park
Our National Parks
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Learn the special role played by the National Park Service in preserving our shared natural, cultural, and historical heritage through the lens of the history of Paterson, New Jersey!
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Native species are those that reached the islands without the help of people. Many of our native plants and animals occur nowhere else in the world! In this activity, students learn how the different characters (species) in the story could reach the isolated Hawaiian Islands. The class is divided into the different ways that species arrived (4 groups): fly, swim, ride on the wind, and waves. As the story is read, students try to figure out how each new plant or animal reached the island.
Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve
Pathways to Discovery – Getting to Know a Tree
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Use America's largest national park as a pathway to discovery! This lesson helps to familiarize students with the structure, function and importance of trees, and to develop identification skills.
Everglades National Park
"Create a National Park" National Parks: 4-6 Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this activity, students will create their own national park, while learning about the value of national parks.
First Ladies National Historic Site
Discover Ohio's National Parks
- Type: Distance Learning ... Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
When you think of national parks, what do you think of? Do you think of presidential homes, airplanes, or buffalo soldiers? If not, this program will teach your group about the eight national parks and what role they play in the great diversity of sites in the National Park Service.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Buffalo Soldiers & National Parks
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Adult Education
Before the creation of the National Park Service, the US Army were assigned to manage national parks. This included the Buffalo Soldiers who were assigned to protect parks such as Yosemite, General Grant, and Sequoia National Parks. Discover the legacy of the Buffalo Soldiers in our National Parks and how their contribution across the American landscape continues to be captured and preserved for future generations to learn and explore.
Glacier National Park
National Park Service Symbols
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students learn how the design of the National Park Service arrowhead is made up of symbols then have a chance to create their own design.
Glacier National Park
National Park Service Arrowhead
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
What does the National Park Service Arrowhead represent?