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Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical Park
Creating Sculptures from Natural Materials
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will address real world issues through considering their impact on the environment, creating public site-specific art for a national historical park, integrating interdisciplinary understandings, and collaborating with a diverse group.
- 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
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Mount Rushmore as Scuplture
- Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Recreate the Mount Rushmore sculpture with accuracy in mind but using non-traditional sculpture materials. Use drawings and 3D content to get an understanding of the 3-dimensional volumes of the model for accuracy.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Designing a Monument
- Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students utilize resources available in the art classroom to recreate the Mount Rushmore Sculpture, or design their own version, where they choose the four figures from history they feel should be represented by the monumental sculpture. Students will present their final art piece to the classroom with a persuasive argument for their choices of the figures.
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.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Math at Mount Rushmore for Grades 9, 10, 11 and 12
- Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students calculate an estimate the weight of Mount Rushmore by calculating the volume using cross sections of the model, then use density of stone to finally arrive at a rough estimate of the weight. Finally, students calculate when two cracks on the surface of the sculpture would intersect over time.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Document-Based Inquiry: Carve the Mountain and They Will Come
- Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson plan will allow students to have an interactive experience with the history of Mount Rushmore without being physically present at the memorial. With historical images, newspaper articles, letters, telegrams and maps, students will dive into the history of Mount Rushmore, explore the motivating factors for creating a large-scale sculpture in the Black Hills, and consider how choices of South Dakotans in the past continue to impact the lives of South Dakotans today.
Glacier National Park
The Work of Water
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students construct a river model. Then use a watering can or hose to observe the role water has in causing weathering, erosion, deposition and sculpting the landscape.
Gateway Arch National Park
ArtCH Camp Summer Camp
- Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Explore the Gateway Arch National Park like never before! Students will visit the Gateway Arch learn how to draw, paint, sculpt, and build with professional artists to create their own masterpieces.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Photo credit: NPS photo
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will research information to find information about the number of wounded from both patriot and British forces from the SC revolutionary battles: Battle of Camden, Battle of Waxhaws, Kings Mountain, and Cowpens. They will then create a graph that compares the number both injured and fatally wounded.
Glacier National Park
Making the Mountains
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Glacier’s mountainous landscape tells the tale of the powerful geologic forces that have shaped the land over time. In this program, students will investigate the many geologic forces that have sculpted the mountains of Glacier by learning about the four main stages of the park’s geologic formations; silt, tilt, slide, and glide. Through hands-on activities and discussion, students will become immersed in the geologic story of Glacier National Park.