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Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
Sediment Sorting
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Grain size, shape, and sorting chart
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.
Olympic National Park
Sediment Effects of Elwha Dams
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Through this activity, students will learn about the effects that building the Elwha River dams had on the natural sediment transport and deposition mechanisms in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Olympic National Park
Freeing the Elwha (Sediment Deposition and River Structures)
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
As rivers age and slow they deposit sediment and form sediment structures. How are sediments and sediment structures important to the river ecosystem?
Olympic National Park
Freeing the Elwha (River Flows and Sediment Movement)
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Seasonal weather patterns affect the flow patterns of water into the rivers (and watersheds) of Western North America. What landform features can form when erosion is caused by fast –moving water from Spring and Fall rains, and snowpack melt off?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students get the opportunity to understand the difference between a trace fossil and impressions made in sediment through weathering.
Glacier National Park
Erosion and Preservation of the Water Table
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Teacher will demonstrate or have students take turns, pouring water on different ground covers to observe which holds the sediments in place better.
Acadia National Park
Virtual: Grades 4-5, Sedimentary Sleuths
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Wind, waves, and ice! Become a sediment detective and investigate how weathering and erosion have shaped the landscape of Acadia National Park over time. (1 hour)
Mount Rainier National Park
Shoebox Geologist
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this activity, students will model depositional processes from volcanically active areas using sediments in a shoebox, interpret geologic events from layers in a classmate's shoebox model and draw a stratigraphic column graphic.
Acadia National Park
Watershed Lessons
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will take a look at different ways water makes its way to a pond/lake. Students will also be thinking about how that water carries contaminants and sediment and what impact that has on ponds/lakes.
Fossil Butte National Monument
Making a Fossil Game
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students will play a game where a volunteer plays a fish that sinks to the bottom of the lake after death. The remaining students will slowly cover the volunteer with their jackets, showing how over time organisms are covered with sediment and slowly become a fossil.
Cape Cod National Seashore
Beaches in Motion - Coastal Vulnerability
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This Earth Science lesson includes classroom materials, field trip activities and a post assessment activity. The classroom lessons include Powerpoints, readings and activities to increase understanding of coastal processes. The beach activities offer place –based learning to observe and measure conditions to evaluate the vulnerability of a beach to erosion. The post assessment activity requires students to use a model to demonstrate a beaches response to different climate
Acadia National Park
Organisms in and Around Water
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
• Students will take a look at different ways water makes its way to a pond/lake. • Students will also be thinking about how that water carries contaminants and sediment and what impact that has on ponds/lakes. • Students will make a food chain and/or a food web to share what biotic factors play a role in watersheds.
Acadia National Park
Concentric Sedimentary Circles
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will learn about sedimentary rock and the various sizes including boulder, cobble, pebble, sand, silt, and clay. They will create a temporary piece of art, based on concentric circles, using their various sizes of sedimentary rock found in nature using a geo sieve.
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Biological Indicators
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Macroinvertebrates can be found in bodies of water buried in sediments and detritus or attached to rocks or plants. They are visible without magnification and can be used by scientists to measure water quality. In this lesson, introduce your students to these organisms and to the use of a dichotomous key. Students will hone basic identification skills to increase the reliability of data they may collect during a visit to Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
What's for Dinner?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students will observe the shape of living and extinct animals’ teeth to determine whether they are carnivores or herbivores.