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Fossil Butte National Monument

Leafy Thermometers and Rain Gauges

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

During this six-part activity, students investigate climate and climate change. Using fossil leaves from southwestern Wyoming and modern leaves from their area, students classify leaves, determine mean annual temperature and precipitation using leaf margin and leaf area analysis, analyze climate data (temperature and precipitation), and make statements about climate change.

Olympic National Park

Sediment Effects of Elwha Dams

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

Through this activity, students will learn about the effects that building the Elwha River dams had on the natural sediment transport and deposition mechanisms in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Personal Effects of a Revolutionary War Soldier

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

To have students learn about the personal effects carried by soldiers during the American Revolution.

DBQ Essay: Effects of Spanish Rule

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

Students will interpret the meaning of documents and write an essay that demonstrates their understanding of the effects of Spanish colonial rule in Florida.

Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park

Lasting Effects of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

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

Students will learn about the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, read the articles of the treaty, and rewrite them in their own words. Students then write about how the Treaty affects them today. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to answer the question: What is the significance of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and how does it affect us today?

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha (Effects of the Elwha River Dams)

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

Explore the effects of the Elwha River Dams

Olympic National Park

Weather Patterns of the Pacific Coast

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

In this activity, students will learn about weather patterns that help them better understand their water resources.

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.

Haleakalā National Park

Hō‘ike o Haleakalā: High School Science Curriculum

• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This curriculum will introduce students and their families to the marine, coastal, rain forest, invasive species and alpine-aeolian ecosystems of Haleakalā National Park.

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha (River Flows and Sediment Movement)

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

Seasonal weather patterns affect the flow patterns of water into the rivers (and watersheds) of Western North America. What landform features can form when erosion is caused by fast –moving water from Spring and Fall rains, and snowpack melt off?

John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site

Birthplace of John F. Kennedy: Home of the Boy Who Would Be President

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

Visit JFK's birthplace and consider the effects of culture and community in shaping character and personality.

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park

The Building of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

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

Assess the importance of America's early canal system and its economic and social effects

The Ohio & Erie Canal: Catalyst of Economic Development for Ohio

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

Assess the importance of America's early canal system and its economic and social effects.

Day 1 of Biodiversity Bee Week: External Observation of a Honeybee

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

What adaptations do bees have to be effective pollinators and to survive? Students will •observe and dissect the external structural adaptations of honey bees •compare the form of the structural adaptations of honey bees to their functions •explain how the adaptations allow honey bees to be effective pollinators and survivors

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

Project ZAP! Blackstone River Cleanup

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

In this lesson, students will analyze two primary sources to identify the causes and effects of the Zap the Blackstone rehabilitation project.

Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument

Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future

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

Understanding the effects of climate change in the past, present, and future. Learn how desert wetlands evolved over time.

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

Buffalo Soldier Love Stories

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Adult Education

How do our relationships and commitments to others effect our actions? These commitments are seen through the actions they take through various periods of joy, sadness, and hardships in the Army. Learn about the stories of African Americans who served in the military and how their commitments to their loved ones effected their actions on and off the battlefield.

Olympic National Park

FDR’s New Deal Environmental Preservation

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

Students will be able to argue by using multiple sources the effectiveness of FDR’s Relief, Recovery and Reform Programs toward environmental preservation.

Everglades National Park

"Thirst Game -Periphyton" Habitat Video: The Slough

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

Water is a necessity for all life in the Everglades. Periphyton is a colony of blue-green algae, during the dry season, periphyton will store water like a sponge, distributing nutrients to all life forms. When most parts of the Everglades have dried out, periphyton will still have water and a vital food source for all living creatures. This will result in life flourishing until the next rain falls.

Glacier National Park

It's Not Easy Being Grizz

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

This is an outdoor game illustrating: the seasonal food availability sequence for grizzly bears; the effects of whitebark pine decline; and the grizzly bear's relationship with squirrels.