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Acadia National Park

Ocean Path Scavenger Hunt: Girl Scout Edition

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

The Park Loop Road has many significant sites. Learn more about them and have fun making observations with a scavenger hunt along the Ocean Path Trail.

Acadia National Park

Virtual:Grades 7-10: Physics of Acadia: Ocean Waves

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Ocean waves are fascinating to watch, but how are they formed? Explore and learn about the interaction between sunlight, wind, and water and how they create waves using basic principles of physics. (1 hour)

Guadalupe Mountains National Park

Geology Lesson 3. Where did the oceans go?

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

The learner will: • Understand the external forces that aid landscape evolution. • Apply this understanding to the Guadalupe Mountains, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, the Delaware basin area, or your local geography.

Adaptations - Oceans (2nd Grade: Lesson 2 of 2)

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

Students will answer questions to review the habitat whales live in and the adaptations they need to survive.

Create a Critter

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

This is a quick and fun assessment to establish what students know about the ocean environments and the animals that live there.

Acadia National Park

Virtual: Grades 4-6: Habitats of Acadia

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Venture from forest, to ocean, to fresh water as we explore the three distinct habitats of Acadia and learn about the animals who call these places home. (45 minutes)

Cumberland Island National Seashore

Beach Survey

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Every year approximately 14 billion pounds of trash are dumped into the ocean. This trash can create problems for people and wildlife. In this lesson, you can help your students better understand this important issue.

Acadia National Park

Virtual: Grades 6-8: Geology: A Story Written in the Landscape 

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The story of Acadia's formation involves colliding continents, ancient oceans, intruding magma chambers, and bulldozing glaciers. We will investigate the rocks and the landscape to learn about Acadia's dynamic story of past and ongoing change.  (45 minutes)

The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Documenting the Uncharted Northwest

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

Follow a trail of discovery to the Pacific Northwest. Although the corps' findings destroyed the dream of a water route to the Pacific Ocean, their accomplishments had far reaching effects in expanding human knowledge and opening a new course for American history.

National Park of American Samoa

Samoan Art in the Tatau (Tattoo)

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

The Samoa islands are a beautiful tropical paradise located in the South Pacific Ocean. The islands are rich in culture, history, legend, and known for its beautiful landscape and climate. One of the most legendary parts of Samoan culture is the tatau or tattoos represent the spiritual and cultural heritage of the islands.

Acadia National Park

Virtual: Grades 6-8: Marine Chemistry

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Sea water is more than just H2O (water) and NaCl (salt). It is also made up of minerals, nutrients, and dissolved gasses that marine plants and animals need to survive. Learn about the chemistry of the ocean and why it is so important to marine and human life. (1 hour)

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.

Olympic National Park

Habitat Requirements of Pacific Salmon

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this activity, students will learn about the specific habitat requirements for each Pacific salmon species, as well as, other anadromous fish of the Elwha River watershed. The ecological habitat of each salmon species includes their adult range in the ocean and the specific parts of the river, and its tributaries, that are critical spawning habitat.

Swimming on Your Back- Sea Otters in Alaska

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Activities for children to learn about sea otters in Alaska.

National Park of American Samoa

Coral Reefs: Ecosystems Dissolving

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

Corals face in our modern world, a great threat due to a projected change in water chemistry in the ocean due to global warming. Just as carbon dioxide (the main greenhouse gas causing global warming) is increasing in the air, it also increases in seawater in its dissolved form. That makes seawater more acidic which, in turn, may slow the rate at which corals build their calcium carbonate skeletons.

Acadia National Park

I Notice I Wonder: Seafoam on the Coast

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

I notice I wonder is an opportunity for students to watch videos and explore phenomena in Acadia National Park. Sea foam is a unique part of the coastline.

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.

National Park of American Samoa

Pest Invaders: The Fight to Stay Native

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

The history of life on islands is a story of invasions. Ever since the high islands of American Samoa rose out of the sea as barren piles of volcanic rock, living things have been making the long and dangerous journey across the Pacific to reach this new land. Until a few thousand years ago, every plant, insect, and bird that lived on our islands was the descendant of a lucky adventurer that had crossed hundreds or thousands of miles of open ocean to establish a new colony here.

Types of Volcanoes

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

Learn about different types of volcanoes and why the stratovolcanoes near Florissant Fossil Beds were highly explosive over 34 million years ago.

Where is the Native Forest?

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

The original plant and animal species that colonized the islands had to make various adaptations to better survive in the unique ecosystems on Maui. Students will view maps that show the different ecosystems, the park boundary, and the reality of how it looked both before and after human contact. They will discover if Haleakalā National Park and their protection efforts are working to preserve native species and their native habitats.