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Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve

You Can't See Me

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

On this field trip, students will understand the importance of natural coloration and camouflage in survival, considering the colors of various animals found at the park. They will look for colored items placed in a wooded or grassy area. This outdoor activity could also be done in another natural area or on school grounds.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Seeing Into the Ground: Archeology and Magnetometry

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

Learn how archeologists use geophysical techniques like magnetometry to learn more about ancient objects and people. Explore the scientific process behind magnetometry, including magnetic fields, and how archeologists interpret their results. Complete a simulated magnetometry analysis using data from Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site. Este plan de clase con actividades incluido también está disponible en español.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

See, Touch, and Hear: Preschool-age students

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

Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park has special things to see and touch. This field trip will enable preschool-age students to discover special plants and animals by using their senses.

Cowpens National Battlefield

The Way I See It, Daniel Morgan is a “Fye” Guy!

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

Students will pick from a list and retell/rewrite the victory of the patriot forces at Cowpens.

Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park

Homage to Bleriot

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

See notes in Background Information.

Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve

Sand Filters

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

This activity will help students see the importance of sand in water filtration and understand how aquifers are recharged.

Cape Lookout National Seashore

Horses and Humans: Shackleford Horses Unit

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

This science & math unit features the wild horses of Shackleford Banks. See attached complete unit.

National Park of American Samoa

Climate Change: A Warming Planet

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

Our world is always changing. Look out your window long enough and you might see the weather change. Look even longer, and you'll see the seasons change. The Earth's climate is changing, too, but in ways that you can't easily see. Round-n-round the Earth goes, where change may happen nobody knows! This program will help students understand the changes occurring in the Earth’s climate, its impact on local ecosystems and help them discover ways to help.

Yellowstone National Park

Make Your Own Caldera

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

Create your own caldera to see what the Yellowstone Caldera might have looked like after the eruption.

Cane River Creole National Historical Park

Virtual Field Trip: Life on Cane River

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

Take a time machine back in history to see how kids used to live! Students will be able explore the past lives of children and the communities they lived in here on the Cane River! See what life was like though their toys, games, clothing, and more! Together, students and a Ranger will explore the Louisiana Creole Culture.

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument

Ranger-Guided Outdoor Fossil Hiking Programs

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

Bring your class or group to see the Miocene fossil sites, American Indian heritage artifacts and more up close and interactively!

Acadia National Park

What is Algae?

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

Students will be introduced to algae and research the different kinds. Students then will make algae in the classroom and take a field trip to see and observe macroalgae.

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve

Bottomland Hardwood Trail Hike

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

Join Rangers Allyn and Natasha on a trail hike through a beautiful bottomland hardwood forest and see what kind of animals are waiting for you!

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

A Kid's Life in Atlanta

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

This interactive program takes children back in time to see what life was like for a 10 year old girl during the siege of Atlanta.

Everglades National Park

"Sea Level Rise" Climate Change: 4-6 Grade

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

Using props, ice, building dioramas, maps and art, students will see how sea level rise is caused by melting ice-sheets (not by melting ice-bergs).

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Self-Guided Field Trip to Cuyahoga Valley's Station Road Bridge Area

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The Station Road Bridge area is a great place to bring students to see and learn more about Ohio's only national park. From this location, students can see the Cuyahoga River, walk on the historic Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail, and maybe even spot a bald eagle, which are known to nest nearby. Introduce your students to the Cuyahoga Valley through this self-guided field trip.

Alaska Public Lands

Math in Basketry

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This kit allows the student to see math within the Native arts of the Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska. Understand math with hands-on activities, using Tlingit baskets and weaving materials.

Ozark National Scenic Riverways

Man, it's Hot!

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

What does 'global warming' mean, and we are really seeing climate change? In this activity, students will read a Global Warming Information sheet, and measure and graph the local temperature.

Acadia National Park

I Notice I Wonder: Snake Slither

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

I notice I wonder videos can be used to investigate the living world. Acadia has 5 different types of snakes. Watch a video of a snake slithering and see what questions can be generated.

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

Women and Children in the Mill Village

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

In this lesson, students will learn about the role women and children played in the community at Mill Villages. They will analyze a series of photographs using the "I see… I think… I feel… I wonder…" literacy strategy.