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Food for Life

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

Although at first glance the desert may seem to have little in the way of wildlife, it actually contains large, diverse populations. On this field trip, students will take a quarter-mile nature walk combined with directed science exploration to experience the Mojave Desert as one great big giant food bowl. Pre and post-visit activities are included.

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.

Badlands National Park

Bison Banquet: Food Chains and Food Webs of the Prairie

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

In this lesson students will students will identify the components of a prairie food chain and prairie food web. Students will be able to illustrate the transfer of energy in both a food chain and a food web. Students will also explore how environmental changes impact the food chain and food web.

Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument

Pleistocene Food Scene

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

Students will model the flow of energy through Pleistocene (Ice Age) food chains.

Niobrara National Scenic River

Food Webs of Niobrara

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

This lesson overviews the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers. Students will create their own food webs using plants and animals found in the Niobrara River Valley.

Buffalo National River

Food Web Frenzy

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

This lesson was designed to help students understand the food chain and food webs an ecosystem holds and how one part of the chain affects everything surrounding it and more.

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Bison and the Food Web

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

Image of food web with examples

Haleakalā National Park

Food, Water, Shelter, Space

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to: 1. Demonstrate an understanding that a habitat is a home, and native habitats are the best and only home for native species. 2. Recognize that some plants and animals have specific needs and live in special homes that give them what they need.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Culture: Languages, Food, and Stereotyping

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

Are you animated when you talk? The way we express ourselves is often a combination of culture, family, and individual personality. In this lesson, students will practice reading non-verbal communication cues with peers before reading Josiah Gregg's account of multicultural immersion during the fur trade era. Students will examine his descriptions for cultural stereotype.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

5th Grade: Dunes Food Web

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

Students will understand the components of a food web and how they interact. They will create a food web based off a “mini ecosystem” that was marked out along the trail. They will define “invasive species” and identify common invasive species in our area.

Yellowstone National Park

Winter Survival Adaptations: Caching Food

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

Students cache their own "food" to learn about the different strategies used by two different Yellowstone animals and how this helps them survive winter.

Kenai Fjords National Park

Supper Sea

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

Supper Sea is a National Park Service published educational book focused on the humpback whales that visit Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska. Humpback whales migrate over 2,500 miles to feed in Alaska’s cold waters. Why do they make such a long journey for lunch? A National Park Ranger will answer this question and more. The ranger will engage students with photos, story time, and song to broaden their understanding of this showy marine mammal.

Mammoth Cave National Park

Shapes Of The Season

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

This lesson plan is from "Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3", which comprises ten lessons. This is lesson 4 of that set. Students collect and classify leaves. This art project then re-creates their favorite leaf shape in the colors of fall - ready to hang in the window as a sun-catcher.

Everglades National Park

"Create a Food Chain" Wildlife: 4-6th Grade

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

Our "Wildlife" unit is broken into 15 lesson plans, each taking from 20 minutes to several class periods to complete, and targeted mainly at 4th-6th grade students. A class needn't complete every lesson in the unit, though some lessons do refer to one another and are better done in sequence. However, each lesson comes with its own set of objectives and resources.

Everglades National Park

"Food Chain Gang" Everglades ABCs: 2nd Grade

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will be able to define herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore listing three Everglades animals found in each group and will be able to describe three Everglades food chains.

Everglades National Park

"Food Chain Mobile" Everglades ABCs: 2nd Grade

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will build a four part food chain and discuss and demonstrate what happens when one link is removed (an animal or plant becomes extinct).

Olympic National Park

Sediment Deposition at Sea

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

Through this activity, students will learn about depositional and erosional effects as rivers meet the sea. As a river meets the sea, the sediment it carries is deposited in a fan-like formation called a delta. As longshore drift picks up and transports the sediment, it can be carried and deposited down current to form shoreline sediment features such as sand bars, spits, and barrier islands.

Sea Level Rise

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

Explore the causes and effects of sea level rise. Learn how you can join park staff in protecting coastal areas threatened by climate change.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Climate: Drought, Seasons, and Health

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

Is climate change new? Josiah Gregg, as a firsthand observer, offers a snapshot of ecological shifts taking place in the 1830s and 1840s within the southern Great Plains. In this lesson students will compare weather averages for cities along the Santa Fe Trail and consider how seasonal patterns affect the migration and survival of human and animal species.

Voyageurs National Park

Exploring Seasonal Changes with Phenology

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

Learn about Phenology and track seasonal changes!