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Hot Springs National Park

Protecting the Water

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

This program explores the ways that Hot Springs National Park protects the natural water cycle and harnesses the water for human use. Students will explore different challenges from habitat protection to engineering that the park faces in protecting the 143-degree thermal water for public use. Designed for 5th and 6th grade Earth Science and Engineering. Advanced programs may be used for High School programs.

Haleakalā National Park

Protecting a Volcano

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

At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to determine how Haleakalā National Park protects natural, cultural, and geologic resources and how the students can help protect them too.

Haleakalā National Park

Protect Our Parks

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

At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to determine how Haleakalā National Park protects cultural and natural resources and how the students can help protect them too.

Acadia National Park

Protecting Our Park

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

Protecting Our Park outdoor classroom and field work.

Acadia National Park

Protecting the Park (3rd Grade)

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

How do park rangers and community members protect special places like Acadia? Students explore the current research projects happening in the Park. Then, they become "Junior Scientists" as they study biodiversity and learn to address the challenges facing our environment today. The schoolyard will be utilized as on outdoor classroom!

Protecting Our Archeological Past

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

How can we protect our archeological heritage? Students will: 1) Learn that laws and ethics protect our archeological heritage and 2) Understand that all of us are responsible for helping protect the history around us.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Park Rangers Protect, Learn, and Explore

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

At Cowpens National Battlefield, the teacher reads information about national parks and the job of park rangers. Students will learn how the actions of humans can affect the survival of plants and animals, and will also learn how they can participate in the Junior Ranger and WebRanger programs!

Learn the Law: The Archaeological Resources Protection Act

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

What is the Archaeological Resources Protection Act? How do you read a law? Using this lesson plan, students will learn about ARPA and how to read a federal law.

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

National Parks Legacy: Nature and Culture...NPS Protects Both! Grades Pre K-1

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

The National Park Legacy aims to introduce students to the work of the National Park Service. This lesson describes the kind of features preserved by the park service, including natural, cultural, and historical resources.

Haleakalā National Park

What Is A National Park?

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

At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to determine how Haleakalā National Park protects special native habitats and how the students can help protect them too.

Haleakalā National Park

What Is A National Park?

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

At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to determine how Haleakalā National Park protects cultural and natural resources and how the students can help protect them too.

Beach Debris Design Challenge

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

Find out about watersheds and how to protect them.

National Park of American Samoa

World War II and American Samoa

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

Students will hike to Blunts Point with a ranger to visit two of four canons that protected Pago Pago Harbor.

Grand Teton National Park

What is Wild

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

The lesson allows students to think about and discuss their role and the importance of protecting habitats for different types of organisms.

Cape Hatteras National Seashore

Little Kinnakeet Life-Saving Station: Home to Unsung Heroes

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

Why did the Federal Government take an active role in protecting mariners by creating the U.S. Life-Saving Service?

Denali National Park & Preserve

Denali's Dinosaurs

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

Denali was created to protect wild animals, but it also protects some of the most expansive and significant dinosaur trackways in the world. During this Distance Learning program, students travel back in time with a ranger to learn about how the predator-prey interactions of Denali’s dinosaurs mirror those of wild animals in Denali today.

Haleakalā National Park

Map Analysis

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

Haleakalā National Park protects the biodiversity of endemic species. This activity will introduce students to the boundaries and topography of Haleakalā National Park.

Denali National Park & Preserve

Why Wilderness?

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

The protected land of Denali National Park and Preserve encompasses an intact ecosystem of over 6 million acres. High school classes are invited to learn about and discuss the social and environmental benefits and challenges of protecting wilderness. Denali’s sled dogs, dinosaur tracks, and more will inspire students to become stewards of wilderness everywhere.

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.

Dinosaur National Monument

Lesson Plan- The National Park Service Arrowhead

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

The arrowhead is the symbol for the National Park Service. This shape reminds us of the culture and history National Park sites protect. Each element inside the arrowhead represents something that is protected in a National Park site. Students learn how the design of the National Park Service arrowhead is made up of symbols and then have a chance to create their own design.