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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
National Park Legacy - Light Right at Night! Grades 7 - 8
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The night skies division of the National Park Service promotes 6 practices that everyone can adopt and make a difference in reducing light pollution: light only where needed, light only when needed, use less light, use warm colored light, use energy efficient lamps, shield and direct lights downward.
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
Salinas Pueblo Missions Astronomy Program
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Pre-Planning Night Sky Trip Unit
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Activities for Home - Dark Skies
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Night Sky over Kīlauea Caldera NPS Photo/Janice Wei
Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve
Nocturnal Lives
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will understand the difficulty nocturnal creatures have and the reasons they come out at night.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Make Your Own Astrolabe
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students build their own astrolabe to examine stars and planets in the night sky and observe relative movement using basic observations and geometry.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Sharing Star Stories
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Bring the night sky to your classroom with Sleeping Bear Dunes' mobile planetarium. This school visit explores how different cultures have connected with the night sky through constellations, and how light pollution threatens these connections. This program requires a large open room (like a gymnasium) that is at least 17 ft x 17 ft, and at least 12 ft high. The planetarium is accessible for students with physical disabilities.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this lesson, students will examine five examples of roadside architecture built in the 1920s and 1930s and designed to catch the eye of passing motorists—three represented literalism in advertising, one was intended as a political joke, and one was designed to lure the traveler into spending the night in an "exotic" setting.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Ground Level Ozone Biomonitoring - High School Garden Study
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Scientists have noticed that ground level ozone levels tend to be worse at higher elevations, especially at night. This field trip will introduce students to these ozone issues. The attached field trip packet is broken into three parts - onsite activities in the park accompanied by two preparation activities and two wrap-up activities.
Zion National Park
Amazing Animals
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Join us to learn about the most important inhabitants of Zion Canyon - the animals! This program will introduce students to a variety of animals, from the night-loving ringtail to the spiky horned lizard. Youth will learn about the adaptations that allow these animals to thrive in Zion, and the diversity of landscape that creates habitats for such a variety of animals. (30 minutes)
Glacier National Park
What is Winter?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will learn how the movement of the earth around the sun (as well as the tilt, for older groups) causes the winter season. This activity will use group participation, demonstations, diagrams, and a globe.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this activity, participants will develop their active listening skills and their ability to isolate elements of the soundscape around them. The emphasis in the activity is on peeling away human-caused sounds to reveal the sounds of the natural world. Think-Pair-Share is a process commonly used to promote active learning. Small group discussions ensure that every person present has a chance to articulate their thoughts to at least one person.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson focuses on cultural and natural sounds. Participants should visit a culturally significant site within a park for these activities. Beginning with an historic overview of the location, the facilitator will segue into a group discussion of soundscapes present and past. Participants will be introduced to a brief history of the cultural site and learn how sounds influence culture and wellbeing. Requires a facilitator. culture and wellbeing. This lesson is b
Natchez Trace Parkway
Read with a Ranger Charlotte Spies for Justice
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Are you finding it difficult to teach or discuss the Civil War and slavery with early elementary students? This program discusses bravery and making difficult choices. A brief discussion of the battlefields, as well as general survival along the Natchez Trace is incorporated.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
What is a “total solar eclipse”? What historic place might you study to answer this question?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The house holds the Penniman family's written records and artifact collections, which provide glimpses of the places and people that the family visited on their whaling voyages. Theirs is a true life whaling story representative of hundreds of other whaling captains and their families that traveled the globe to pursue whale fishery.