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Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area

In-School Programs

Type: Field Trips ... Guest Speakers
Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Bring the park to your students!

Hamilton Grange National Memorial

Educator's Guide (Middle School/High School)

Type: Field Trips ... Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

High School: Succession

Type: Field Trips
Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Succession is an important ecological process. It provides information about particular communities at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The dunes provide a wealth of information regarding succession, the health of the dunes and the apex forest.

Acadia National Park

Migration Friendly School

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

To engage students in identifying positive and negative factors affecting bird migration. Students will also create an action plan to address any negative factors present on the school campus

Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site

Victorians and Monsters: High School

Type: Guest Speakers
Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Art reflects society and culture. Some of the most famous pieces of literature written during the Victorian Era involved ghosts and monster stories. What was going on in Victorian society that led to the writing of some of the classic Gothic horror stories and how do these stories help us better understand life during the Victorian Era?

Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site

Test the Waters - High School

Type: Field Trips
Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students explore their connections to water while participating in a worldwide, citizen science initiative - collecting water quality data in the Saugus River.

Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site

Test the Waters - Middle School

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

Students explore their connections to water and participate in hands-on field research by collecting water quality data.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Middle School: Ecosystem Comparison

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

Students will compare the biotic and abiotic factors of a forest and a dune ecosystem, enabling them to discover why the dunes are a challenging, yet unique ecosystem. Students will also learn that animals and plants have developed adaptations that help them live or travel through the dunes.

Yellowstone National Park

Expedition Yellowstone: Field School

Type: Field Schools & Institutes
Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This 4-5 day residential curriculum-based program is offered for teachers and their 4-8th grade classes. Students learn about the natural and cultural history of Yellowstone, investigate current issues affecting the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and promote stewardship and preservation in the park and in home communities.

Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park

School Water Budget Kit

Type: Science Labs
Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

The following activities replace the traditional way of teaching the water cycle by identifying how surfaces in the schoolyard influence the pathways water takes after a precipitation event. By exploring the water cycle as it occurs at their school, the learning becomes place-based and relevant to the culture of the school.

Governors Island National Monument

Middle School Traveling Trunks

Type: Traveling Trunk
Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Packed with lesson plans, primary source documents, reproduction artifacts, movies, and more, our Traveling Trunks are a ready-made and easy way to make New York City and U.S. history tangible to students.

Marvel? DC? Nope - SC!!!!

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

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

The World of Tardigrades (Middle School)

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

In this field trip, middle school students will be introduced to the microscopic world that thrives in lichens including Tardigrade characteristics, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory and man-made threats. This packet is broken into three parts including activities at the park, a preparation activity and two wrap-up activities.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

The World of Tardigrades (High School)

Type: Field Trips
Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

In this field trip, high school students will be introduced to the microscopic world that thrives in lichens including Tardigrade characteristics, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory and man-made threats. The field trip packet is broken into three parts including activities at the park, a preparation activity and a wrap-up activity.

Salem Maritime National Historic Site

Freedom for All? (High School)

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

In this lesson, high school students analyze primary sources to learn about the lives of two formerly enslaved people who were part of the first generation of freed people in Massachusetts.

Homestead National Historical Park

One-Room Schools Traveling Trunk

Type: Traveling Trunk
Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The One Room School day traveling trunk was designed by Homestead National Historical Park staff. This trunk uses student-centered activities to increase student's knowledge of what school was like in the late 19th century. The trunk contains resources for educators to use in a classroom environment. It integrates written and oral activities, and games to enhance your student's learning.

The Freeman School: Building Prairie Communities

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

One community, one room. Discover the red-brick schoolhouse where a frontier town's children learned and its families gathered.

Biodiversity Curriculum: Middle School Newsletter

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

Students are given the opportunity to research a topic of their choice related to threats that exist to the biodiversity of our planet.

Women's Rights National Historical Park

Rights and Privileges- High School Level

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

This program will share the story of the Seneca Falls 1848 Convention for Woman's Rights. The program consists of several assignments designed to help students recognize the difference between a right and a privilege and apply their knowledge to those who organized and attended the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention.