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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
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.
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.
Acadia National Park
Sedimentary Sleuths Program Planner
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This hands-on program takes place at Sand Beach and is an exploration of geological processes such as weathering and erosion. Interpretation of geologic and topographic maps is included.
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.
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)
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?
Olympic National Park
Geology pt 1: Rockity Rock Rock
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to identify the three basic types of rocks (Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic) and basic characteristics of each.
- 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.
Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve
Sand Density
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This activity, which uses sand, helps students will understand material density as it relates to water and sedimentary rocks.
Olympic National Park
Geology pt 2: Rock Sorting
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to identify the three basic types of rocks (Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic) and sort samples of rocks into the three types?
Colorado National Monument
Roca, Roca, Roca
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
At the end of this lesson, students will be able to identify and list characteristics of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks and will be able to describe how each rock is formed.
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.
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.
Rocky Mountain National Park
Every Rock Has a Story
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Don't take these rocks for granite! Students will become geologists who learn how to describe and identify rocks by their family-sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic. Students will apply their knowledge to uncover the geologic story of Rocky Mountain National Park.
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.
Arches National Park
Moving Rocks
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students explore how weathering and erosion form the landforms seen at Arches National Park.
Grand Canyon National Park
Layers in Time: 3rd - 7th Grade
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students have the opportunity to learn about universal geological concepts and rock layers through exploring evidence of changes over geologic time through the fossil record. Program is intended for 3rd through 7th grade and is hosted by Grand Canyon Park Rangers via Distance Learning.