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Petrified Forest National Park

Where in the World is Petrified Forest Virtual Field Trip

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

Is your classroom too far away to visit the park? Don't worry, you can still connect with a ranger! The Where in the World is Petrified Forest program is for Grades 4-6. This program is an introduction to the environment that existed during the Late Triassic, Plate Tectonics, and Geography. It consists of 90 minutes of pre-program classroom activities with a 45 minute live video conference with a ranger.

Yellowstone National Park

Create a Cool Petrification Station

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Create your own petrified log and learn how the petrification process works.

Petroglyph National Monument

Traveling Trunks at Petroglyph National Monument

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

Bring the park into your classroom today!! Petroglyph National Monument offers FIVE traveling trunks for your convenience. These trunks can be adapted for various grade levels.

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

Inventory + Monitoring Evaluations

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

Students will get to view excavation sites that our paleontologists visit and do an easier version of what our paleontologists do here at the parks. They will virtually tour the excavation pit and 2 petrified stumps.

Discover American Life & Labor at Chicora Wood: A Lightning Lesson from Teaching with Historic Places

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

Chicora Wood was a rice plantation where hundreds of enslaved people lived and worked, from the 1730s until the Civil War. Enslaved Africans and their descendants cleared woods, cultivated and harvested rice, and constructed homes for their enslavers, the Allston family.

Hands Over Time

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

Students will recognize that handprint petroglyphs and pictographs may be prehistoric signatures. By leaving behind their own handprints on paper, students will increase their understanding of the value of petroglyphs and the need for their preservation.

Petrified Forest National Park

Clam Beds Geology Hike

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Geology/Clam Beds Hike: Grades 3-8, 60-90 minutes Students hike with a ranger into the badlands of Petrified Forest where they learn how to make observations, read the rocks around them, discover fossil evidence and discuss ideas about Arizona's geologic past. Group Size is limited to 25 students.

Stratigraphic Column Formation Sandwich

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

Students will recreate the Florissant Formation stratigraphic column (or any rock formation you would like to use) using food materials. Each food item will represent a specific layer of the Florissant Formation (or rock formation).

Arches National Park

Cultural Contributions

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

In the classroom, students observe artifacts and discuss clues artifacts provide about the lives of people who lived near Moab in the past. On the field trip, students make their own pottery, cordage, and petroglyph replicas.

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park

Happy Trails: A Nature Exploration Activity

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

Take a walk into nature, and explore how that can impact your health. Meets Kentucky K-2nd grade PE standards. This lesson was created by Kentucky teachers as a part of the History and Science Explore Project.

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

Goats at Connemara Farm (Grades K-2) Carl Sandburg Home NHS

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

The purpose of this lesson is for students to understand the connection between Mrs. Sandburg’s dairy barn and how the goats are cared for by park rangers today. The students will write both a descriptive poem about goats and an opinion piece about whether or not they would want a pet goat.

Glacier National Park

Surviving in the Wild

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

Students role play a day in the life of a pet animal and then sort pictures of a variety of animals into “wild” or “domestic” categories with the option of making collages of each category. They will think about how “wild” animals are different from domestic animals and why wild animals need “wild” places to live.

Petrified Forest National Park

Simulated Archeology Dig

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

Students engage in archeological field techniques while learning to measure, map, and identify artifacts of the ancestral Puebloan culture. Group size is limited to 25 students.

Petrified Forest National Park

Simulated Fossil Dig

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

During this field trip, students experience the thrill of discovery while learning how to see the bigger picture of an ancient ecosystem. They will map, measure, and identify fossilized remains of Late Triassic animals. Group size is limited to 25 students.

Petrified Forest National Park

Ask a Ranger Virtual Field Trip

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

Is your classroom too far away to visit the park? Don't worry, you can still connect with a ranger! The Ask a Ranger program can be done for Grades K-12 & College. It is 30 minutes of video conference where students ask questions about park resources or conservation.

Art and Archeology: “Crashing the Gates” with Ann Axtell Morris

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

Ann Axtell was a prominent archeologist, artist, and author. Ann spent much of her time recording and painting architecture, petroglyphs and pictographs, landscapes, and expedition work. Many of her recording methods are still in use today by modern archeologists. Este plan de clase con actividades incluido también está disponible en español.

Petrified Forest National Park

Every Kid In a Park - Exploring Public Lands and Waters

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

Every Kid in a Park: Grade 4, 30 minutes in the park (45-60 min pre-visit lesson) Students meet a ranger in the park for a 30 minute question and answer session. This program can be conducted at any overlook or trail in the park. 4th grader passes are issued to the class at the end of the program.

Petrified Forest National Park

Student Phenology for Outdoor Citizens (SPOC)

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

Student Phenology for Outdoor Citizens (SPOC) is a citizen science program focusing on the plants and animals of the park. It has pre- and post-visit lessons, as well as a ranger-guided hike where students make natural history observations. Fourth grade classes are eligible for the National Park Foundation's Open Outdoors for Kids grant funds, which includes free snacks and/or lunches. Please inquire about other travel grant funding for other grade levels.

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

National Park Legacy - Wildlife in Cities Grades K - 2

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

Coexisting with wildlife requires that actions be taken to reduce conflicts and minimize impacts from human activity so that a healthy appreciation of wildlife can be fostered. Specifically addressed in this lesson are efforts SMMNRA is making to encourage residents to clean up unintentional food resources such as pet food, and secure trash cans so that unwanted wildlife do not seek food on personal property.

Petrified Forest National Park

Museum Detectives Field Trip

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will participate in a guided learning activity inside of the Rainbow Forest Museum identifying and matching replica fossil bones of Late Triassic animals to the museum exhibits. Students will work in groups or pairs to answer questions about the animals and present their answers to the whole class.