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Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Geography: Navigation and Isolation on the Great Plains
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Getting lost in unfamiliar surroundings is a common human experience. In this lesson students will take on the role of navigator and mapmaker to pinpoint a location. By doing so, students will recognize that migration across the Great Plains landscape in the 1830s and 1840s required a unique set of survival skills and navigational tools.
Haleakalā National Park
Nā Manu o Haleakalā
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Nā Manu o Haleakalā
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Navigating Through Time: From Way Finding To Satellite Grades 6-12
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Polynesians had a unique sense of place and where they were on an island. They had a vast knowledge of their island home from the mountain to the ocean. Polynesians used a system that is known as wayfinding to chart their destination. Today we use modern navigational tools to find our way through the world.
Fort Donelson National Battlefield
Life as a Civil War Sailor in the US Navy
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Life of a Civil War Sailor on the City-Series Ironclads
Wind Cave National Park
Surveying into the darkness
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
A mock cave survey where students use compasses to navigate along a specific path.
Buffalo National River
Compass Course - Using a Compass
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson was designed to help students understand how to use navigation tools especially as they pertain to exploring the outdoors.
Acadia National Park
Compass Use Adventure
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to navigate through at least 5 landmarks in the outdoor campus using the directional signals of a compass rose. The affective goal of this activity is to have the students get outside and navigate through their natural world. I want them to see the importance of using a compass instead of just understanding how to read NSEW on google maps.
Shiloh National Military Park
Research Made Real – Using National Park Service Web Pages to Locate Primary Sources
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will learn how to navigate these sites to find information about the Civil War and then use that information to enhance their writing on an informative paragraph assignment.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
Virtual Scavenger Hunt- High School Level
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth 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.
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.
Colorado National Monument
How Rock Layers Work: Middle School Earth Science
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Topics: Stratigraphy (Rock Layers), Mapping, Rock Cycle, Geologic Time | Students will explore why rocks form layers, investigate how they're arranged across a landscape, navigate the rock cycle's role, and start to comprehend deep time.
Prince William Forest Park
Introduction to Basic Orienteering
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Learn the basics of using a map and compass for navigation, and put that knowledge to work by finding fixed points in the forest. This activity can be ranger guided or self guided and depending on the orienteering course chosen, can last from 1.5 hours to a full day.
First Ladies National Historic Site
Secret Politicians
- Grade Levels: College Undergraduate Level
The role of first lady is inherently political, but the most successful political maneuvers are done in an implicit way. They are persuading without being persuasive. Participants in this program will learn about the skillful ways modern first ladies have navigated politics and how we got to this point.
Acadia National Park
"Eastings and Northings" A Mapping Activity
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The lesson builds up slowly to read Map Grid References for later learning and practice orienteering. Orienteering is a navigation and sport activity that incorporates walking or jogging, determining directions, and map reading. The object of the activity is to use a map and compass to locate specific points in each area.
Acadia National Park
Acadia Wayside Scavenger Hunt
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
A wayside is a panel that shares information. The panels are designed to be colorful and packed with information so it is a fantastic way to explore and learn about Acadia National Park. Using the winter map in Acadia National Park this scavenger hunt that uses waysides as a fun way to navigate Acadia National Park
Haleakalā National Park
ʻĀhinahina Haleakalā
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Eia ihola ke kiʻi o nā ʻĀhinahina ma Haleakalā. Akāka ke kiʻi o ka ʻĀhinahina mākua.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This in-class presentation explores the tools a student needs to hike safely in the desert ecosystem. Students learn their directions, things to bring with them, and what to do if they get lost.