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Showing 1,912 results for physical changes in matter ...
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students learn the difference between physical and chemical changes in matter, and go for a hike to observe both in nature. At stations, students explore how rocks are weathered by both physical and chemical changes. Students then observe the mechanisms scientists use to measure ozone in the lower atmosphere and act out the chemical changes that destroy ozone in the upper atmosphere.
Acadia National Park
The Physics of Waves
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will be looking at how waves play a role in our everyday lives. Students will be looking at transverse and longitudinal waves and be able to label the parts of each.
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
Physical or Behavioral Adaptations
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Learn what adaptations are and the differences between physical and behavioral adaptations.
Arches National Park
Physical Features of the Earth
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
At a field trip site, students examine a limestone layer to find fossils and make clay models to reenact movement along a local fault. Students hike through three rock layers to observe how the characteristics of rocks produce arches.
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)
Andrew Johnson National Historic Site
No Laughing Matter
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Learn about political cartoons and how they were used to reflect public opinion about Andrew Johnson during his presidency.
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students explore how matter moves through the Earth’s ecosystems, by focusing on carbon. In the classroom, they role play how carbon moves through Earth’s systems. On the field trip, they simulate food chains and photosynthesis. They examine decomposers and test the properties of soil crusts.
Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park
Voice Matters
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This program is guided by a ranger through a series of slides where students are given background information and asked questions that require them to evaluate their own thoughts and experiences and compare to others through facilitated dialogue.
Glacier National Park
Always Changing
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Working in three teams, students will use reference material to create and present a play showing 100 years of change for each forest type.
Alaska Public Lands
Climate Change Kit
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This kit provides students with the chance to learn more about climate change and renewable energy through activities and demonstrations. Packed with curriculum and starter kits your students will have a blast learning together.
Yellowstone National Park
Wolverines and Climate Change
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will demonstrate an understanding of specific adaptations that have prepared the pika and wolverine to survive in cool climates with harsh winter conditions. Students will additionally demonstrate an understanding of timescales and evolution, and how due to the increased speed of global temperature rise, climate change can have negative effects on these mammals despite their ability to adapt.
Glacier National Park
Changes at Log City
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to reproduce images of the happenings in a rotting log, and show how it will change over time.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
A Map Changed by Destiny
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students become characters on a map of the western US in the 1840s as Fort Scott soldiers help to bring about rapid westward expansion
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Why Water Matters
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The Cuyahoga River gained national attention when TIME magazine published the infamous burning river photograph in 1969. Though the incident helped propel improved standards in water quality nationwide and ultimately helped inspire the Clean Water Act, we continue to struggle as a nation with water quality issues. Explore the topic of water quality with your students and help them discover that water quality issues are a global environmental problem.
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park
Every Decision Matters
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Stay or go? Obey or resist? For slaves, every choice had life-altering impacts. When choosing to seek her own freedom, Harriet Tubman risked her life and health and left behind the only community she had ever known. To stay meant she risked sale and continued to live in the limited and brutal conditions of slavery. To return so her loved ones could experience freedom risked a return to slavery but offered new life. What factored into a slave's choices?
National Park of American Samoa
Climate Change: A Warming Planet
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Our world is always changing. Look out your window long enough and you might see the weather change. Look even longer, and you'll see the seasons change. The Earth's climate is changing, too, but in ways that you can't easily see. Round-n-round the Earth goes, where change may happen nobody knows! This program will help students understand the changes occurring in the Earth’s climate, its impact on local ecosystems and help them discover ways to help.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Define the mission of the National Park Service. Name three national park areas and their significant features. Explain how Shenandoah protects plants and animals, specifically the Shenandoah salamander. Identify three environmental/human influences that can impact the ecosystem of the Shenandoah salamander. Describe potential consequences to the Shenandoah salamander's survival. Explain three ways that individuals can help reduce the impact of human-accelerated climate change.
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park
Changes in the Landscape: Weathering and Erosion
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The land that Lincoln once walked and played is everchanging. Discover evidence of weathering and erosion that has changed the landscape at Knob Creek. Meets Kentucky 4th grade science standards. This lesson was created by Kentucky teachers as a part of the History and Science Explore Project.
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
Climate Change Scavenger Hunt
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson plan is park specific for Florissant Fossil Beds NM, but can be adjusted. This lesson plan is design to send the students/participants on a hunt to find the ways we are trying to reduce our carbon footprint around the monument.
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
Climate Change & Bird Range
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Tule Springs Expedition Research Learning Center partners with our local Audubon Society Chapter to participate in the Climate Watch bird survey citizen science project. Citizen scientists across North America report the data they collected during these surveys to help document how bird species are responding to climate change and shifting their ranges. This activity explores how different climate change scenarios may affect bird populations locally. Author: Jake Johnson & Lauren Parry