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Pre and Post Field Trip Activities
Salamander Research Field Trip (High School)
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Salamanders are an especially abundant and diverse group in the Great Smokies. Since salamanders breathe through their skin they are more susceptible to water and air pollution. During this study, high school students will work in groups to collect and record data in taking an inventory in monitoring many of the salamanders found in the park. The field trip packet includes pre, onsite, and post-visit activities.
Salamander Research Field Trip (Middle School)
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Researchers use salamanders as a bio-indicator to help assess the health of our forests threatened by air pollution and impacts from a changing climate. When students visit the Smokies on their field trip, one group will be collecting data as part of a Salamander study. The pre, onsite, and post-visit activities in this packet will introduce the scientific method and use the identifying anatomical characteristics to key different species of salamanders.
Commercial and Non-Industrial Occupations Post-Visit 2: Research Careers of Entrepreneurs
Animal Research
Researching Prairie Restoration
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In a Word (Post Visit)
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Trading Post Labor
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail produced a collection of observations that include the multicultural nature of labor in the southwestern borderlands in the 1840s. This lesson offers an opportunity to analyze the Bent, St. Vrain, & Company's dependence on skilled labor from various classes, ethnicities, and national origins.
Back to the Future: Research Project
Family Ties (Post Visit)
Cottonwood Trail Post Visit
Field Studies Programs
The Art of Field Guiding
Field Trip: The Villages
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Learn about the life of the Hidatsa tribe that lived in the villages at Knife River Indian Villages NHS. The park ranger will guide students through interactive presentations in the museum, the earth lodge, and in the village (on the trail). Program also includes the 15 minute introductory park film.
Overnight Field Trips
- Type: Field Schools & Institutes
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Overnight field trips provide interdisciplinary, experiential and place-based learning in Cuyahoga Valley National Park that your students will never forget! Our dynamic environmental education program is designed to complement what students learn in the classroom and correlate with Ohio academic content standards.
Plan a Field Trip
Schoodic Education and Research Center (SERC)
- Type: Field Schools & Institutes
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
SERC’s education mission is to make natural and cultural resource research and data more accessible to students of all ages through placed based and STEM activities. SERC is the Research Learning Center representing studies throughout 14 national park sites in the Northeast and along the Appalachian Trail.
Lesson 6 - RESEARCHING CONTEMPORARY SLAVERY
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade