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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

Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area

Field Studies Programs
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Active, place-based learning about life and earth science, nature, technology, and history with the National Park in your backyard!

Acadia National Park

Carroll Homestead Program
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students are welcome to join role-playing rangers in historical recreation of the Carroll Homestead. Designed around fourth grade Maine state standards, this program explores the contrast between 1800s Maine and contemporary society. Games, costumes, and the beautiful "Mountain House" tell a story of one family's subsistence life in early Maine

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.

Gateway Arch National Park

Plains Indians Scout Program
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Explore the culture of the Plains Indians. Learn about their dependence on the buffalo, what they ate, what they wore, and how they had fun. Takes place at the Museum at the Gateway Arch.

Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site

Teacher-Ranger-Teacher Program
  • Type: Teacher-Ranger-Teacher
  • Grade Levels: Adult Education

Teacher-Ranger-Teacher is a summer program that aims to connect teachers with National Park Service units to create educational programs that are mutually beneficial for the teacher and the park.

Acadia National Park

Sedimentary Sleuths Program Planner
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This hands-on program takes place at Sand Beach and is an exploration of geological processes such as weathering and erosion. Interpretation of geologic and topographic maps is included.