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Kenai Fjords National Park

The Scientific Method

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

Students will conduct a basic soil science experiment and re-familiarize themselves with the scientific method.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Optical Illusions and Mirage on the Great Plains

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

Are your eyes playing tricks on you or is it the light? This lesson explores the properties of light and the environmental conditions which cause mirages. Students will examine some famous optical illusions before reading Josiah Gregg's experience with them when traveling across the Great Plains in the 1830s and 1840s.

William Howard Taft National Historic Site

The Measure of a Man or a Woman

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

This lesson will help students to re-live the early years of William Howard Taft and his family as well as, explore the Taft family's values practiced in their household.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Economy and Trade: Pre 1845

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

In Economy and Trade: Pre 1845, students will learn about trade relations between tribes prior to European contact and how their experience prepared them for success in dealing with explorers and traders after European contact by re-enacting trading as it was practiced at Knife River Villages.

Gateway Arch National Park

Law Merit Badge

• Type: Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Does protecting the law involve bravery? Does telling the truth equal courage? Investigate the judicial system and its important role in our society. Scouts re-enact a historic trial and debate contemporary issues. An attorney and a National Park Service Law Enforcement Ranger will discuss their roles and responsibilities in society.

Mammoth Cave National Park

Shapes Of The Season

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

This lesson plan is from "Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3", which comprises ten lessons. This is lesson 4 of that set. Students collect and classify leaves. This art project then re-creates their favorite leaf shape in the colors of fall - ready to hang in the window as a sun-catcher.

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.