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Saguaro National Park
Circles and Saguaros
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The objective of this lesson is to help students learn how to use saguaros to find the circumference of a circle as well as how to find volume and surface area.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
How can you use an algebraic equation to solve the age of a saguaro? The objective of this lesson is to help students learn about the components of algebraic expression and how they can use that to solve the problem.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
To introduce the important relationship between nurse trees and saguaros, while learning about percentage and how to create several graphs using Excel.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The objective of this lesson is to help students learn how to identify statistical questions as well as be able to work with data by finding the mean, median, mode and range.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The objective of this lesson is to help students learn how to divide fractions using saguaros.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The objective of this lesson is to help students apply their knowledge of trigonometry in real life by connecting it to measuring the height of saguaros.
Saguaro National Park
How Much Water Can Sunny The Saguaro Drink?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
How does Sunny the Saguaro's age over the years compare to his height? The objective of this lesson is to help students learn about the relationship between the height of saguaros and their age while utilizing their geometric equations to calculate the volume of Sunny the Saguaro.
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.
Saguaro National Park
Understanding Percent Using Buffelgrass
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The objective of this lesson is to help students learn and understand percentages while also learning about the significance of buffelgrass, an invasive plant in the Sonoran Desert.
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
National Parks: Where Plants Hold a Place of Honor! Grades 2-3
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This lesson plan, designed for grades 2 and 3 uses common core and ngss standards to teach students that some National Parks were established to protect specific plant species. In doing so, students will learn the importance of plants within their ecosystems.
Arches National Park
Desert Adaptations
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students observe and compare different methods of seed dispersal. They learn about bat behavior and anatomy, and explore how camouflage helps animals hide in their habitats. Lastly, they discover how the shape of a bird’s beak correspond to what it eats.
Zion National Park
Genetics and Adaptations: Understanding Inherited Traits and Survival
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The students will focus on and discover how different plants living in Zion National Park use their inheritable traits to adapt to their environment. Students will model plant genetics using different colored beans to make combinations of alleles, representing the hybridization of prickly pear cacti in Zion National Park.
Zion National Park
Desert Plant Adaptations: Structures that Support Survival
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Zion’s Desert Plants introduction video. A ‘design a desert plant’ activity where students will draw and present a plant that they created and the adaptations they chose to help it survive.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Business Ventures
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail put him in contact with merchants and traders during the 1840s when the political climate was shifting with Mexico. This lesson explores the risks, decision-making factors, and consequences of doing business in this region during the fur trade era.