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Channel Islands National Park

Channel Islands Live Dive: 5th Grade
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students explore the kelp forest with a park ranger-diver through an interactive distance learning program. The role of kelp as a producer and, therefore, its ability to produce oxygen through photosynthesis are emphasized. Affects of human activities on kelp forests are also explored.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

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

Explore a forest ecosystem to discover which organisms live here. Search for producers, consumers, and decomposers and learn how they are all connected.

Homestead National Historical Park

The Legacy of the Homestead Act
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In "The Legacy of the Homestead Act," students will identify aspects of text that reveal an author's point of view and produce their own presidential speech about the Homestead Act.

Niobrara National Scenic River

Food Webs of Niobrara
  • Type: Teacher Reference Materials
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This lesson overviews the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers. Students will create their own food webs using plants and animals found in the Niobrara River Valley.

Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Cleanup at Hanford, Washington
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Lesson Plan: Students learn about waste produced at the Hanford Site during the Manhattan Project era and the current cleanup efforts happening today.

Acadia National Park

Virtual: Grades 3-5: Ecosystem Explorations
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Learn about interactions between producers, consumers, predators, and prey in Acadia's ecosystem.  We'll explore the relationships between organisms and focus on their roles in the environment, as well as food webs. (45 minutes)

Major Insect Orders Mini-Book
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This activity familiarizes students with the six most populous orders of insects by producing Mini-Books with the name of each order on a separate page, examples of common insects in that order, a picture, identifying characteristics, and an interesting fact.

Big Cypress National Preserve

Let the Water Flow
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will watch an interactive video produced by Big Cypress National Preserve. The video will cover various topics of hydrology in the Big Cypress Watershed, allowing students to participate in answering/solving questions regarding the flow of water.

Mammoth Cave National Park

Squirrels Need A Home - or - Bats Need A Cave
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

This lesson plan is a part of "Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3", produced by the park's Environmental Education program. The GrK-3 Guide comprises ten lessons; this is lesson 6 of the set.

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.

Everglades National Park

“Population Explosion” Don't Let It Loose: 5-8th Grade
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will be able to recognize melaleuca and tell how the seeds are dispersed. They will describe that melaleuca produces over 1 million seeds per year and have a concept of how much that really is. Students will determine the population of melaleuca seeds for their wetland ecosystem through sampling.

Channel Islands National Park

Channel Islands Live Dive: 6th Grade
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students explore the kelp forest with a park ranger-diver through an interactive distance learning program. As kelp forest inhabitants are encountered, students identify their roles as producers or consumers. Food chains are constructed and the transfer of energy is discussed. Affects of human activities on kelp forests are also explored.

Mammoth Cave National Park

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

This lesson plan is a part of "Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3", produced by the park's Environmental Education program. The GrK-3 Guide comprises ten lessons; this is lesson 2 of the set. Students will discover the components that make up a National Park

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

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.

Everglades National Park

"The Water Watch" Water: 4-6 Grade
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The student will be able to: a) list two reasons why water conservation is necessary for the preservation of the Everglades, b) list two ways in which they can increase community involvement in water conservation, and c) produce a petition which lists ways to conserve water and get at least one hundred signatures on their petition.

Channel Islands National Park

Channel Islands Live Dive: 4th Grade
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students explore the kelp forest with a park ranger-diver through an interactive distance learning program. As kelp forest inhabitants are encountered, fourth grade students identify their roles as producers or consumers. Food chains are constructed. What if one organism in a food chain disappears? What if some condition in the kelp forest changes?

Grand Teton National Park

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

Surprising geology has created a landscape of beauty and variety. As part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the park is part of the largest intact, temperate ecosystem in the world, meaning it has the full spectrum of native species from producers to predators. From bison to beaver, hundreds of fascinating animals live in the Tetons and adapt to extreme winter conditions.

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

The Battle of Harpers Ferry, 1862: Harpers Ferry is the Key!
  • Type: Teacher Reference Materials
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

When war broke out in April 1861, Harpers Ferry was still producing weapons for the U.S. Government, but that spring, the Confederates dismantled both weapons’ factories and sent the machines south. Teachers will find three resources for use in the classroom: a drawing of a Civil War soldier, list of items soldiers carried or wore, and a map of Northern Virginia and part of Maryland.

Mammoth Cave National Park

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

This lesson plan is a part of Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3, produced by the park's Environmental Education program. The GrK-3 Guide comprises ten lessons; this is lesson 1 of the set. After being introduced to symbols and grouping, students will assemble two puzzles symbolic of our national parks - a ranger hat and the arrowhead patch.

Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail

Live from 1812!
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will act out newscasts taking place in different parts of the country during the War of 1812. Four groups will portray four unique experiences using primary and secondary source readings to prepare for the role-play. At the end of the lesson,students will share what they learned in a “Letter to the Producer" to answer the question: How did the War of 1812 impact the daily life of citizens economically and socially?