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Acadia National Park

Outdoor Triangle Proportions
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

By the end of this unit students will be able to understand similar triangles and proportions. Students will do this through measuring a tree shadow and using their own height and shadow length to set up a proportion. By finishing the calculation, the students will find the height of the tree or building. Activity designed for grades 5-9 but can be modified higher or lower.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

3D Modeling and Scale
  • Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Construct a topographic model of Mount Rushmore. After the model is completed, students use concepts of scale and proportion (similarity concept in math) to calculate the scale of their model by comparing to real-life measurements.

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.

Everglades National Park

"Sea Level Rise" Climate Change: 4-6 Grade
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Using props, ice, building dioramas, maps and art, students will see how sea level rise is caused by melting ice-sheets (not by melting ice-bergs).

Assateague Island National Seashore

Kindergarten| Feathers & Hair: What Animals Wear!
  • Type: Guest Speakers
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Whether it is feathers, fur, skin, or hair, young learners will explore what animals wear with a story that comes to life with props and pantomime. Program Length: 45 minutes NGSS: 1-LS1-1

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha: "Hatcheries - Saviors or Scourge for Wild Salmon?"
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This activity helps students understand the history and roles that hatcheries serve in sustaining commercial fisheries, native fish populations, and saving endangered fish stocks. They will also do their own research on the pros and cons of hatcheries.

Rifles vs Muskets in the Revolutionary War
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

The two main shoulder-fired weapons of the revolution are the musket and rifle. They both have their pros and cons in battle. Students will analyze and compare the parabolic shape of each weapon. They will try and determine which weapon they would wield.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Juan's Draft Pick Lesson Plan
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Whether by pulling a wagon, cart, or saddle bag, animals powered the goods to be traded and transferred to their destination. The fur trade era simply could not have taken place without the aid of horses, mules, and oxen. The lesson examines the pros and cons of using these animals as transportation based on their characteristics and biological needs.

George Washington Carver National Monument

George Washington Carver - An Original Conservationist: Alternative Uses for Everyday Materials
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This topic is a focus on alternative uses for source materials and products that can be made with alternative materials. Students will make peanut milk in an effort to understand how foods can be used in different ways to increase nutrition to the consumer. Students will create a pros/cons poster researching products (such as fuel) and comparing traditional source materials (crude oil) with alternative materials (corn or soy-based ethanol).

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

Incident at Harpers Ferry: Slavery and John Brown
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this lesson, students will share their thoughts on slavery, examine how our country dealt with this institution, consider how both pro-slavery elements and abolitionists looked at slavery and why, and learn a little about John Brown’s early life - in particular, his activities out in Kansas in the years 1855 – 1857. Students will then be able to answer the following essential question: What was slavery like in the antebellum United States?