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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Roadside Attractions

• 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.

Listen, Pair, Share

• 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.

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)

The Penniman House: A Whaling Story

• 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.

Dividing Fractions Using Saguaros

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The objective of this lesson is to help students learn how to divide fractions using saguaros.

Glacier National Park

Puzzle it Out

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will identify the components of Earth’s climate system using a puzzle.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Rushmore Rocks!

• Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Through this interactive and hands-on lesson, your students will learn about the three rock types and how they are formed. In small groups they will also use evidence to identify three types of rocks and record their observations.

Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park

Airplanes of the Future!

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will be able to recognize and create artwork that celebrates technological achievements.

The Curious Saguaro

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

How can you use an algebraic equation to solve the age of a saguaro? The objective of this lesson is to help students learn about the components of algebraic expression and how they can use that to solve the problem.

Homestead National Historical Park

Prairie Animals (3-5)

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The trunk includes curriculum materials, tracks, scat, animal furs and animals skulls that can be integrated into science, art, reading, and language arts curriculum. Additionally, the curriculum materials include student station sheets, so students can rotate stations without the teacher having to repeat instructions.

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

Tallgrass Prairie: A Multidisciplinary Curriculum

• Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Prepare students for a visit to the 81-acre tallgrass prairie at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site. Activities strenghten skills in observation, analysis, and interpretation in the field and in the classroom. Activities are written with middle school students in mind, but may be appropriate for other ages.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Symbols of America

• Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will learn what a symbol is and why symbols are used. They will learn symbols of both America and of South Dakota, as well as the significance behind these symbols.