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Homestead National Historical Park
Black Homesteaders in Nebraska: Audacious Dreams (3rd - 5th)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Homestead Act of 1862 provided African Americans with the prospect of farm ownership. In Nebraska, Black homesteaders built successful farms from eastern tallgrass prairies to the arid Sandhills in the west and the intentional community of DeWitty, NE. Students will explore how Nebraska’s Black homesteaders persevered.
Homestead National Historical Park
Black Homesteaders in Nebraska: Audacious Dreams (6th - 8th)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The Homestead Act of 1862 provided African Americans with the prospect of farm ownership. In Nebraska, Black homesteaders built successful farms from eastern tallgrass prairies to the arid Sandhills in the west and the intentional community of DeWitty, NE. Students will explore how Nebraska’s Black homesteaders persevered.
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.
Glacier National Park
Who Says Plants Can't Move?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Student volunteers move around the classroom and role play different techniques to model the various ways plants can distribute their seeds. They observe a variety of seeds/berries from their neighborhood.
Haleakalā National Park
Maui Forest Birds
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
In Hawaiian mythology, the demigod Māui loved the forest birds and painted them bright colors for all to see and enjoy. The native Hawaiians loved to use the feathers of these forest birds to create lei kāmoe (feathered lei), mahiole (feathered helmets), kāhili (feathered standards), and ʻahu ʻula (feathered cloaks). These birds’ populations have been steadily declining since European settlers came in the 19th century bringing non-native plants and animals.
Haleakalā National Park
Who Needs Who?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this activity students will become a piece of the environment (nectar, bird, insect, plant, etc.). Through a game, they will come to understand how everything in nature is interconnected, and how changes in the physical environment can have either a negative or positive impact on the survival of a species. It also illustrates that an effect on one factor can influence all the others. The activity concludes with a message of hope and how people can help to protect biodiversity.
Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve
Pathways to Discovery - "Scent"sations!
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Use America's largest national park as a pathway to discovery! In this lesson, students learn how insects find one another using their sense of smell through smelling activity.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
What is a pollinator? Students will •identify different pollinators •explain the importance of pollinators in the environment •calculate the amount of time and work it takes to be a pollinator
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Survival of the Fittest (3rd Grade)
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Standing 400 feet above the Kīlauea Iki crater down to the depths of a 550 year old lava tube, students explore and understand the ecosystem of Hawaii's natural rainforest. Through this field trip, they will understand how these plants and animals made their way over vast oceans, and how they began to adapt to elements and terrain presented to them upon arrival. The students will begin to gain a deeper sense of appreciation for the environment in which they live.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students will choose a habitat found in Haleakalā National Park and create a model of that habitat inside of a shoebox. The diorama projects will be shared with the class the following day.