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Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve
Bat and Moth
- 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 about the bat’s “niche” in an ecosystem by playing the part of these little critters.
Haleakalā National Park
Adaptation
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson, haumana (students) will learn what a botanist, ornithologist, and entomologist are and what they do, what adaptation is and how Hawaiʻi native Honeycreepers adapted to fill unique niches in the environment.
Haleakalā National Park
Adaptations Unit Field Trip
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Many of Haleakalā’s forest birds have evolved and adapted over time with specific niches in their habitat. Explore how these adaptations are important to the health and stability of native habitats. Learn about the threats to these rare and endemic forest birds and what Haleakalā National Park is doing to protect them from extinction.
- 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.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students work collaboratively to create fictitious animals in order to understand adaptations that help wildlife survive among various habitats throughout the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.