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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.

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

Scientific Discovery Trunk 3rd-5th Grade

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

This trunk includes exhibit and modern scientific equipment, a resource guide, books, posters and more. It offers students an opportunity to learn about the natural scientific observations from the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the impacts of the changes which have occured over the past 200 years.

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

Scientific Discovery Trunk 6th-8th Grade

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

This trunk includes exhibit and modern scientific equipment, a resource guide, books, posters and more. It offers students an opportunity to learn about the natural scientific observations from the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the impacts of the changes which have occurred over the past 200 years.

Everglades National Park

Create an Animal: A Teacher's Guide to Scientific Classification

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Animals are adapted to their environment to survive. This teacher's guide provides information about different animals' adaptations, and the scientific method of classification.

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

Olympic National Park

Dam Removal: A long and difficult process

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this activity, students working in four groups will research one of four issues involved in dam removal as it relates to the Elwha River. The students will synthesize their research for presentation to the class.

Assateague Island National Seashore

Horse Teeth and Diet

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

In this lesson plan, students will use the scientific method to learn about horses' diets from 3d replicas of horse teeth found on Assateague Island. The 3d replicas are viewable online, or the files may be downloaded and 3d printed. In the process, students will learn an archeological method for learning about animals' lives in the past.

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument

Death Traps

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This scripted slideshow for teachers describes the process by which animals have died and become fossilized in waterholes, influenced by a severe drought. It compares two sites, separated by 13 million years: Agate Fossil Beds and the Badlands. It is designed to teach students the principles relating to the behavior, habitat and survival of living animals; as well as scientific study of past life forms known as fossils; and severe climatic events.

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Environmental Prairie Science

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

Students conduct a miniature scientific experiment and learn about prairie ecosystems through games and activities.

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Science on the Prairie

• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In these lesson plans, students will perform scientific research on the prairie to learn of the importance of grasshoppers, fire, and aquatic invertebrates are to the prairie

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Seeing Into the Ground: Archeology and Magnetometry

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

Learn how archeologists use geophysical techniques like magnetometry to learn more about ancient objects and people. Explore the scientific process behind magnetometry, including magnetic fields, and how archeologists interpret their results. Complete a simulated magnetometry analysis using data from Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site. Este plan de clase con actividades incluido también está disponible en español.

Cumberland Island National Seashore

Make Your Own Barometer

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will learn about the scientific instrument called a barometer. They will be able to create their own barometer at home and record atmospheric pressure data.

Student as Researcher Camp (Multi-day)

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

“Students as Researchers” Camp gives students the opportunity to conduct their own scientific research over the course of a week at two different outdoor research sites.

Cane River Creole National Historical Park

What Did They Eat?: Archeology and Animal Bones

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

This lesson illustrates how archaeologists use faunal analysis, or the study of animal bones, to explore what people in the past ate and how they obtained their food. By applying concepts of taxonomy and scientific classification, it demonstrates how archaeologists use both scientific methods and historical research to interpret past lifeways. Este plan de clase con actividades incluido también está disponible en español.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Introduction to Citizen Science

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

Citizen Science is the involvement of everyday people in making scientific observations of the world around us. These observations address real world problems and contribute to scientific research projects. Citizen Science initiatives provide opportunities for the public to collect data in the field and report findings to databases used by professional scientists. Introduce your students to this growing field, in which amateur scientists can contribute meaningful observations to science.

Olympic National Park

Geology

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

This program for second grade students takes place at the Hurricane Ridge Visitor Center. It involves two separate activity stations and a ranger-led nature/geology walk.

Mount Rainier National Park

Lahar in a Jar

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

Explore how small amounts of water can mobilize loose rock to form lahars by making a small lahar within the safety of a beaker or jar and analyzing it using scientific methods.

Grand Teton National Park

Weather Wonders

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

What lives under the snow? Teaching scientific inquiry is easy when students are curious. Students will investigate life above and under the snow as park rangers lead them on a snowshoe hike.

Pele’s Journey

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

This lesson begins with the video (or graphic novel) “Pele Searches for a Home”. Students will compare Pele’s journey through the islands depicted in this Hawaiian legend with the scientific geologic theory of the creation of the Hawaiian Islands.

Lake Clark National Park & Preserve

How Many Salmon Are Enough?

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

Use this lesson to explore ecology, biodiversity and populations. This lesson takes real life experiences and scientific data to connect with students at a personal level and achieve a greater understanding in how wildlife and humans are connected.