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Shenandoah National Park

Kindergarten | Sense Scientists

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

A child investigates the world and learns about his/her surroundings through the five senses. Shenandoah National Park is a great place to expand a child’s sense of wonder and develop observation skills through hands-on discovery and nature experiences. Students will learn stewardship behaviors and find ways they can help protect and preserve the environment.

Acadia National Park

Bird Data Scientist

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

Become a data scientist and use data to create an evidence-based argument whether humans are impacting migratory patterns of birds.

George Washington Carver National Monument

George Washington Carver - An Original Conservationist: The Man, the Scientist, The Artist

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

Today’s focus is to gather a basic understanding of who GWC was, where he came from, how he got his education, what purpose he saw for his life and the focus of his work. More depth can be added by having students complete presentations over Carver. By breaking the class into groups each group can do their own presentation over the whole topic or can be focused on one portion so that through the whole class all the information is gathered and provided to students.

Acadia National Park

Virtual: Grades 5-6: Pond Ecology, Citizen Scientists at Work!

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Learn how scientists track the health of Acadia by looking at who is living in a pond! Discover how you can help inventory the plants and animals that live near you! (45 minutes)

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

Wind Cave National Park

Parts Per Million

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

A short demonstration to illustrate how scientists measure pollution and why small amounts have large impacts.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Bear Essentials

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Our Bear Essentials program will introduce your students to the essentials bears need to survive and inspire them to think like scientists.

Acadia National Park

Sound Mapping

• Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students learn that scientists make observations using a variety of senses. Students practice the skill of observation through listening to collect data in their local environment.

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.

Food Chains

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

Food chains reveal how each organism depends on someone else for survival and can help scientists learn more about ecosystems and how to help them stay balanced.

Glacier National Park

Predicting the Future

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

Students identify the process by which scientists in W-GIPP are determining/predicting the short and long range effects of global climate change in this two session lesson plan with research time in between.

Acadia National Park

Tracking Nature's Seasons Program Description

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

Phenology is the study of the timing of seasonal events. Students will discover nature's calendar, make observations along Acadia's trails, and conduct investigations in the forest to learn how citizens are aiding scientists in protecting Acadia.

George Washington Carver National Monument

George Washington Carver National Monument 3rd & 4th Grade Art and Essay Contest

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

George Washington Carver National Monument preserves the birthplace and childhood home of George Washington Carver, renowned scientist, educator, and humanitarian. Carver was a prolific writer and artist. This contest strengthens writing skills and encourages artistic expression.

Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve

Bears of Glacier Bay 2: The Scoop on Poop

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

Our "Bears of Glacier Bay" curricula unit is divided into three lesson plans, each taking one class session to complete. They are part of our "Middle School Scientists" series that explore the fascinating research and resources of Glacier Bay National Park.

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

Earth's Layers

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

Students will create a play dough model of the Earth's layers. They will then cut it in half to observe the layers in cross section to see how the planet is structured. To end they will use a clear straw to take a "core" sample to understand how scientists observe the upper layers of Earth.

Olympic National Park

Salmon Nutrient Cycling

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

This activity helps students learn how marine-derived nutrients from salmon carcasses find their way into terrestrial environments and how scientists can track these marine-derived nutrients to analyze their importance to ecosystems today, as well as reconstructing past ecosystem processes.

Acadia National Park

Protecting the Park (3rd Grade)

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

How do park rangers and community members protect special places like Acadia? Students explore the current research projects happening in the Park. Then, they become "Junior Scientists" as they study biodiversity and learn to address the challenges facing our environment today. The schoolyard will be utilized as on outdoor classroom!

Lake Clark National Park & Preserve

How Clear Is the Water?

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

In this lesson students will test their knowledge of ecosystems and the qualities necessary to sustain life by creating Secchi disks, testing turbidity (water clarity), and making predictions about the habitat that might exist. This fun, hands-on lesson allows students to be the scientist and make predictions based on their findings in their lab reports.

Indiana Dunes National Park

A Royal Journey

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

The goal of A Royal Journey is to spread the voice on conservation and need of this threatened species. We also strive to bring a scientist’s journey into the concept of the student’s thinking. The dynamic timeliness of necessity has inspired the Indiana Dunes National Park to invite and educate students of today and adults of tomorrow to learn and save this imperiled species.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Ground Level Ozone Biomonitoring - High School Garden Study

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

Scientists have noticed that ground level ozone levels tend to be worse at higher elevations, especially at night. This field trip will introduce students to these ozone issues. The attached field trip packet is broken into three parts - onsite activities in the park accompanied by two preparation activities and two wrap-up activities.