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Arches National Park

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

Students explore the structures of plants and their functions by comparing desert and riparian plant adaptations. Students engineer mechanisms to help seeds travel, and design their own plants in the classroom.

Acadia National Park

Plant Adaptation Hunt

• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will be able explore their outdoor space and identify and investigate plant adaptations.

Stones River National Battlefield

Adaptation of Plants to Cedar Glades

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

Students will be able to describe the adaptations that are required and present in plants that are found in the cedar glades.

Plant Adaptation Card Game

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

By playing the card game and filling out the worksheet, students reinforce the concepts of different adaptations by different plants to ensure survival

Acadia National Park

Outdoor Plant Adaptation Hunt

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

What adaptations do plants have to help them survive? This activity explores outdoors and gets children looking at plants.

Cedar Breaks National Monument

Plant Adaptations in the Sub-alpine Forest Ecosystem

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

This lesson plan is built for use on a ranger or teacher guided nature walk at Cedar Breaks. Students will learn about plant adaptations to the sub-alpine forest ecosystem. After learning to identify five of the most common sub-alpine trees and shrubs, students will engage in a hands on study of a one-meter plot of forest. The class then will discuss how the plants are uniquely adapted to long cold winters as well as how forests adapt to changing environmental conditions.

Zion National Park

Desert Plant Adaptations: Structures that Support Survival

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

Zion’s Desert Plants introduction video. A ‘design a desert plant’ activity where students will draw and present a plant that they created and the adaptations they chose to help it survive.

Manassas National Battlefield Park

Adaptations

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

Describe how plants and animals use adaptations to survive in a particular environment. Explain how impacts on a habitat influence the adaptations of a species.

Haleakalā National Park

Adaptation

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

In this lesson, haumana (students) will learn what a botanist, ornithologist, and entomologist are and what they do, what adaptation is and how Hawaiʻi native Honeycreepers adapted to fill unique niches in the environment.

John Day Fossil Beds National Monument

Biodiversity and Adaptation

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

In this unit, learn about adaptations, what present-day animals tell us about fossil animals, how fossils inform paleontologist about past environments, and construct a Mastodon, an ancient elephant.

Haleakalā National Park

Haleakalā Adaptations

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

At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to: 1. Describe how plants and animals use adaptations to survive in particular environment. 2. Explain how impacts on a habitat can influence the adaptations of a species.

Arches National Park

Animal Adaptations

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

Students explore structures animals have that function to help them survive. On the pre-trip, an instructor dresses up to illustrate the amazing adaptations of this animal. On the field trip, students design and test their own beaver dams. They compare their eyesight to raptors. And, they explore adaptations that help mountain lions hunt and deer avoid being caught.

Arches National Park

Desert Adaptations

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students observe and compare different methods of seed dispersal. They learn about bat behavior and anatomy, and explore how camouflage helps animals hide in their habitats. Lastly, they discover how the shape of a bird’s beak correspond to what it eats.

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Bison Adaptations

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

Bison mother with calf

Rocky Mountain National Park

Amazing Animal Adaptations

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

Join an education ranger as they introduce five animals of Rocky Mountain National Park, noting the differences between their parents and offspring, while exploring the characteristics that help them survive in this diverse landscape.

Haleakalā National Park

What Is My Adaptation?

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

Haleakalā National Park protects one of the only remaining habitats for native species. Maui’s endemic species are native species that adapted to the islands over time and are found nowhere else. They had to adapt to the vast variety of ecosystems in order to improve their ability to find food, water, shelter, and space. An adaptation is a change of form or behavior that helps a species survive in a specific environment. Most living things have a variety of adaptations.

Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial

Predator Prey Adaption

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

During this lesson the students will play a modified version of freeze tag to help them better understand predator/prey relationships.

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.

Fortune Teller Adaptations

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

The Fortune Teller will be used by students to challenge their classmates with guessing some unusual animal adaptations from around the world. The extension activity exposes students to famous biologists who have studied plants and animals in the past and present, creating a “Famous Biologist Timeline”.

Florida Animal Adaptations

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

Compare and contrast adaptations displayed by animals that enable them to survive in Florida's natural habitats.