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Glacier National Park

Eco-enrichers

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

Students evaluate the importance of soil as well as plant and animal matter as contributors to soil through observing earthworms decompose composting materials.

Gateway Arch National Park

ECO Rangers Summer Camp

• Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Explore what lives in our lakes, ponds, streams, forests, and prairie lands. Do the same macros live in the creeks and ponds? What birds and animals live in the prairie lands vs woodlands? Fish the lakes and rivers, fine tune your archery marksmanship, net for macros in ponds, and search for the birds in our Missouri’s public lands.

Olympic National Park

Ecosystem Olympic

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Bring Olympic National Park's ecosystems into your classroom!

Rocky Mountain National Park

Ecosystem Explorers

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

Due to changes in elevation, precipitation, and temperature within Rocky Mountain National Park, the ecosystems found here are extremely diverse. Join an education ranger and become ecosystem explorers on a mission to uncover the biodiversity found in each ecosystem! Students will research one of Rocky's four ecosystems before connecting with an education ranger and will present their findings during the live program. Rangers will elaborate on each ecosystem, showing videos

Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

Craters Ecosystem

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

Students learn about living and nonliving parts of ecosystems through one worksheet and two activities.

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Science on the Prairie

• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In these lesson plans, students will perform scientific research on the prairie to learn of the importance of grasshoppers, fire, and aquatic invertebrates are to the prairie

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Environmental Prairie Science

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

Students conduct a miniature scientific experiment and learn about prairie ecosystems through games and activities.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Researching Prairie Restoration

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

Looking for topics for mini-research projects? An NPS prairie restoration video is a great conversation starter for an opinion paper. Students will work in teams to research the benefits of restoring our endangered prairie ecosystem.

Badlands National Park

Prairie Animals and Habitats

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

Badlands National Park protects 244,000 acres of mixed-grass prairie habitat and the wild animals that live in it. Prairie vegetation is mostly grasses--find out why. Then take a look at some of the wildlife (including bison, pronghorn, prairie dogs, and black-footed ferrets) that have adaptations that allow them to thrive in the prairie environment. Students participating in the in-class program may see and touch animal pelts, complete a puzzle, or complete a craft.

Kenai Fjords National Park

Fabulous Fjord Ecosystem

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

Fjord estuary ecosystems only exists in 6 places around the world! Students will explore this unique environment, observe the plants and animals that thrive here and consider the interconnected systems that maintain its delicate balance. This program discusses the transfer of energy within food webs and changes in community/population dynamics. Students will have the opportunity to dive into humans’ role in this ecosystem and their local ecosystems.

Acadia National Park

Ecosystem Explorers (Kindergarten)

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

These programs are written for grades K-2 as a fall exploratory hike along Maine's wild coastline. Each program builds on the previous one and is based on the Next Generation Science Standards.

Everglades National Park

"Alligator Hole Eco-Drama" Wildlife: 4-6th Grade

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

Our "Wildlife" unit is broken into 16 lesson plans, each taking from 20 minutes to several class periods to complete, and targeted mainly at 4th-6th grade students. A class needn't complete every lesson in the unit, though some lessons do refer to one another and are better done in sequence. However, each lesson comes with its own set of objectives and resources.

Homestead National Historical Park

Prairie Life Traveling Trunk

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

The trunk includes curriculum materials, books, artifacts and photos that can be integrated into history, social studies, art, reading, and language arts curriculum. Additionally, the curriculum materials include student station sheets, so students can rotate stations without the teacher having to repeat instructions.

Homestead National Historical Park

Prairie Animals (K-2)

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

The trunk includes curriculum materials, tracks, scat, animal furs and animals skulls that can be integrated into science, art, reading, and language arts curriculum. Additionally, the curriculum materials include student station sheets, so students can rotate stations without the teacher having to repeat instructions.

Homestead National Historical Park

Prairie Animals (3-5)

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

The trunk includes curriculum materials, tracks, scat, animal furs and animals skulls that can be integrated into science, art, reading, and language arts curriculum. Additionally, the curriculum materials include student station sheets, so students can rotate stations without the teacher having to repeat instructions.

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

Tallgrass Prairie: A Multidisciplinary Curriculum

• Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Prepare students for a visit to the 81-acre tallgrass prairie at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site. Activities strenghten skills in observation, analysis, and interpretation in the field and in the classroom. Activities are written with middle school students in mind, but may be appropriate for other ages.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Field Trip: Prairie Biodiversity

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

Learn the importance of prairies and prairie life. A park ranger will guide students through a series of interactive presentations and activities. Students will learn about biodiversity within a prairie ecosystem.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Field Trip: Prairie Restoration

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

Learn how the Hidatsa tribe used the prairie during village life. Explore and participate in restoring the prairie back to its original state. Teacher can choose from a variety of interactive activities focused on the prairie ecosystem.

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

Investigating Tallgrass Prairie Plants

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

By growing and comparing plants, students discover how prairie plants differ from other plants and how prairie plants and the environment benefit from these differences.

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

Girl Scouts Cadette Eco Trekker at Carl Sandburg Home NHS

• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Follow this Girl Scouts Cadette "Eco Trekker" badge lesson to plan a visit with your scouts at Carl Sandburg Home NHS. Girls will learn about invasive species, leave no trace and how to practice eco friendly trekking while enjoying the outdoors.