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Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical Park
Creating Sculptures from Natural Materials
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will address real world issues through considering their impact on the environment, creating public site-specific art for a national historical park, integrating interdisciplinary understandings, and collaborating with a diverse group.
Fossil Butte National Monument
Geology, Relatives, and Time
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Using a simple three or four generation family tree, students construct a relatives time tree that mimics the major divisions of the geologic time scale, Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Using storyboard, cartoon make, comic book maker.org or the document added the student will create their own story. Picking 2 battles they will develop 2 4-6 frame comics
George Washington Carver National Monument
George Washington Carver - The Artist: Yucca and Cactus
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Focusing on Carver's career choice and the impact it made on the lives of others, this lesson concludes with students creating a floral relief sculpture.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Mount Rushmore as Scuplture
- Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Recreate the Mount Rushmore sculpture with accuracy in mind but using non-traditional sculpture materials. Use drawings and 3D content to get an understanding of the 3-dimensional volumes of the model for accuracy.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Designing a Monument
- Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students utilize resources available in the art classroom to recreate the Mount Rushmore Sculpture, or design their own version, where they choose the four figures from history they feel should be represented by the monumental sculpture. Students will present their final art piece to the classroom with a persuasive argument for their choices of the figures.
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.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The New Deal reform, recovery, and relief programs changed the relationship between American’s and their government in revolutionary ways. The Resettlement Administration (RA), Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), and the Farm Security Administration (FSA) were programs to get displaced families off relief. More than eighty years after the Matanuska Colony was established much of it remains to tell the story of the New Deal resettlement program in Alaska.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Supplies, Survival, and Success: Civil War Quartermaster
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In our modern world, many of us have come to rely on transportation systems and the operation of stores and warehouses in order to provide us with food, clothing, and other essentials for survival. During the Civil War, Fort Scott played a similar role as a supply depot that was critical to the survival and success of Union soldiers in the area.
- Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
People have far more in common with bats than they realize, and people rely on bat populations throughout the world in a variety of ways. In this lesson, students will study the skeleton of a bat, learn about their special adaptations through games, discover why bats are important to our environment and find that bats are friends, not foes.
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
Ice Age Mammals of Tule Springs Research Project
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will identify key information about a past species. Students will describe modern relatives of a species found in the fossil record.
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.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Math at Mount Rushmore for Grades 9, 10, 11 and 12
- Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students calculate an estimate the weight of Mount Rushmore by calculating the volume using cross sections of the model, then use density of stone to finally arrive at a rough estimate of the weight. Finally, students calculate when two cracks on the surface of the sculpture would intersect over time.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Make Your Own Astrolabe
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students build their own astrolabe to examine stars and planets in the night sky and observe relative movement using basic observations and geometry.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Consider the impact of Hoover's boyhood years on his desire to help starving children as the administrator of the Belgian Relief Commission during World War I.
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.
Hot Springs National Park
Finding Hot Springs' Habitats
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
“Finding Hot Springs’ Habitats” is an environmental science program training students to “read” the many habitats of Hot Springs National Park. Students will learn about how the hot springs environment relies on a healthy ecosystem. Students analyze open air springs for water quality and thermal habitats before exploring terrestrial environments on a 0.5 mile naturalist hike. Designed for 2nd & 3rd grade Life Science lessons.
Glacier National Park
The Work of Water
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students construct a river model. Then use a watering can or hose to observe the role water has in causing weathering, erosion, deposition and sculpting the landscape.
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.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Document-Based Inquiry: Carve the Mountain and They Will Come
- Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson plan will allow students to have an interactive experience with the history of Mount Rushmore without being physically present at the memorial. With historical images, newspaper articles, letters, telegrams and maps, students will dive into the history of Mount Rushmore, explore the motivating factors for creating a large-scale sculpture in the Black Hills, and consider how choices of South Dakotans in the past continue to impact the lives of South Dakotans today.