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Mesa Verde National Park

Can You Solve It? A Scavenger Hunt

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

“Can You Solve It?” is a FIELD TRIP activity designed to engage students in an active exploration of the Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum. It complements a self-guided visit to Spruce Tree House nearby. Activity cards describe fictional scenarios that depict the life of Ancestral Pueblo people in A.D. 1200 to A.D 1275. Much like a scavenger hunt, students must locate objects, solve problems, and answer questions by examining exhibits, making observations, and recording what they find.

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

So You Wanna Be a Paleontologist?

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

Students will become familiarized with fossils that have been uncovered in Florissant Fossil Beds from the Eocene and Quaternary. They will select a certain extinct species and make a sketch on a Popsicle stick canvas. After shuffling their Popsicle stick fossil, they will then hide the sticks around a room and have someone else find and "excavate" the Popsicle stick fossil and attempt to put it back together. Best done with a partner to exchange fossils to find and put together.

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

So You Wanna Be a Paleobotanist?

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

Students will re-create scientific studies done by paleobotanists analyzing data from fossil plants found at Florissant Fossil Beds to draw conclusions about the paleoclimate 34 million years ago. In this activity, students will identify fossil plant species by their leaves, review data on the growing conditions of their nearest modern plant relatives, and compare as many species as possible to determine the range of temperature and precipitation that the fossil plant community can live in.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

So you want to be an American President

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

This lesson is opened with a discussion, followed by the reading of Judith St. George and David Small's book, "So you want to be President", then progress into assignments, presentations, gallery walk and awards as applicable to the teacher.

Everglades National Park

"What's So Special?" Environment: 4-6 Grade

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

Students will draw a favorite plant, animal, or activity common to the Everglades environment and explain, in writing, the reason they chose it. This will help students recognize and identify one valuable aspect of a national park’s environment, and draw conclusions as to why they value that aspect of the environment.

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

Problems and Perspectives (Grades 9-12) Carl Sandburg Home NHS

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

Students will look at a social issue (child labor) from multiple perspectives, research points of view, and then present that perspective through a “town hall’ type meeting with classmates

The Curious Saguaro

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

How can you use an algebraic equation to solve the age of a saguaro? The objective of this lesson is to help students learn about the components of algebraic expression and how they can use that to solve the problem.

Money, Money, Money!

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

Students will be able to describe the basic monetary system in use in American leading up to, and to a degree during, the Revolutionary War and solve simple math problems using this system.

Fort Pulaski National Monument

Cannons by the Numbers

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

In this teacher-led activity, students will stop at several locations in Fort Pulaski featuring cannons or equipment used with cannons. Students will learn about the weight, range and usage of cannons while solving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems.

Russell Cave National Monument

Tad the Tadpole

• Type: Distance Learning ... Science Labs ... Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Frogs are important because they help the environment by indicating stress levels in habitats and performing algae consumption in stream beds. During this program the students will learn what pollutants harm these animals and the environmental friendly ways to solve these pollution problems.

Timpanogos Cave National Monument

Communities Care in National Parks! Grades 2 and 3

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

Explore communities through National Parks! Students will learn the types of communities that use National Parks and compare them to their own. We will also discuss the role of community members and how we work to solve problems in our National Parks.

Wright Brothers National Memorial

The First Four Flights--Math Up!

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

This lesson plan will allow students to understand the path that led to the Wrights' success on December 17, 1903 by relating the stories of their interest in flying from youth, the growing interest in flight in the late 1890s and the flight experiments that led to their first flights in 1903. The story of their dream to fly will be used as a backdrop for students to solve relevant mathematical problems and connect with Wright Brothers National Memorial.

Acadia National Park

Virtual: Grades 7-10, Acadia in a Changing World

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Climate Change. These two words can leave many feeling disempowered or confused. This program gives students the reins and allows them to put themselves in the role of "park managers" to better understand the challenges of climate change and to explore climate solutions. Students spend the first half of the program learning from the ranger, and then work together to problem solve three ongoing and real-world Acadia National Park challenges. (1 hour)

George Washington Carver National Monument

George Washington Carver - An Original Conservationist: Welcome to the 21st Century

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

This activity will serve as the culmination to an ecological unit, especially those on current environmental problems. Students will take the role of George Washington Carver from 100 years ago. They will evaluate current ecological problems as if they were George Washington Carver. Their goal is to understand how the world has changed in the last century but also to recognize how solutions for today’s problems may have been around for decades and just need to be implemented.

Zion National Park

Sustainable Design Solutions: Mitigating Effects of Natural Resource Use

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

Using Zion's visitor center as inspiration, students will design energy-efficient buildings to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Back Stairs at Brucemore: Life as Servants in Early 20th-Century America

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

Understand the "servant" experience in early 20th-century America, as well as the pros and cons for women working in factories versus domestic service.

Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical Park

Invasive Invaders

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

By being directly involved with real issues and problems, students learn the skills and create a desire to be proactive with non-native invasive species.

Temperature, Clouds and Sun is Weather - oh, my!

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

The program consists of videos, hands-on projects, and observation-based activites. The participant will: Create a cloud headband. Learn about the job of a Meteorologist. Predict tomorrow’s weather. Learn about Martin Van Buren’s year without a Summer. Conduct an experiment to create a cloud in a jar and document the type of cloud by comparing it to a cloud chart. Enjoy some En Plein Air drawing or painting of cloud formations.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Escape the Battlefield, Win the War!

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

The Southern Campaign of the American Revolution was the catalyst for the eventual surrender of General Cornwallis and the British at Yorktown, Virginia. Students will be given an escape room mystery to solve related to certain battles of the Southern Campaign. They will have 60 minutes to solve the given mystery and get out of the escape room.

Fort Stanwix National Monument

History Detectives: 1777, On-Site Education Program

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

How did Fort Stanwix help to win the Revolution? Search for clues around the fort to solve the mystery!