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Glacier National Park

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

Students will sign songs to help them understand that humans have 5 senses which help them learn about the world around them.

Shenandoah National Park

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

A child investigates the world and learns about his/her surroundings through the five senses. Shenandoah National Park is a great place to expand a child’s sense of wonder and develop observation skills through hands-on discovery and nature experiences. Students will learn stewardship behaviors and find ways they can help protect and preserve the environment.

Rocky Mountain National Park

Sense-a-tional Rocky
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Journey alongside Kaylee the Coyote as she explores Rocky Mountain National Park with her senses and invites YOU to do the same in your own classroom and backyard! This engaging program features interactive games and songs.

Tumacácori National Historical Park

Tumacácori in Five Senses - PreK -1
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Tumacácori in Five Senses explores life at the mission through taste, smell, touch, sound, and sight.

Grand Canyon National Park

Making Sense of Our World: Upper Elementary
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Guided by our senses, students explore Grand Canyon to look for examples of adaptations and interactions of plants and animals. Using current park science, students investigate the interdependency of living organisms in ecosystems. Arizona Science Standards: 3.L1U1.5

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Explore With Your Senses - Grade K (Tennessee or North Carolina)
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Complete field trip packet for a Great Smoky Mountains visit that includes: Explore With Your Senses Pre-Site Lesson, information and directions about the field trip and Wrap-up part 1 and 2 post site activities. One packet for TN educators and one packet for NC educators.

Glacier National Park

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

Students will use the sense of hearing to explore bird sounds.

Glacier National Park

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

Just like a bear, students will use their sense of smell to locate an object in the room.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

Secrets of The 'Apapane - Kindergarten
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Young students learn about the 'apapane and it's role in the native Hawaiian forest through utilizing their senses and observational skills.

Acadia National Park

Sound Mapping
  • Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students learn that scientists make observations using a variety of senses. Students practice the skill of observation through listening to collect data in their local environment.

Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve

Pathways to Discovery - "Scent"sations!
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Use America's largest national park as a pathway to discovery! In this lesson, students learn how insects find one another using their sense of smell through smelling activity.

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.

Acadia National Park

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

Students will explore nature through journaling in a notebook. Students will learn to observe nature with four of their five senses. Students will notice how shadows change over time and with the seasons and develop a model of why these shadows change over time.

Colorado National Monument

Little Explorers: A Nature Adventure for K-2 Learners
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Topics: Plants & Animals, Explorer Skills, Using Senses | This program for lower elementary engages natural interests in discovery and adventure on a small scale through a guided scavenger hunt, a coloring activity, acting as local animals, and dancing out the needs of plants.

Shenandoah National Park

1st Grade and Kindergarten | Virtual Wildlife Detective
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Help rangers solve the mystery of the missing berries while virtually exploring Shenandoah National Park! Use your senses to find clues, meet some of the animals that live here, and learn all about the importance of Shenandoah and all National Parks. 30 minutes

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

Navigating Through Time: From Way Finding To Satellite Grades 6-12
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Polynesians had a unique sense of place and where they were on an island. They had a vast knowledge of their island home from the mountain to the ocean. Polynesians used a system that is known as wayfinding to chart their destination. Today we use modern navigational tools to find our way through the world.

Acadia National Park

Poetry in Nature
  • Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Once students have made their observations, instruct them to write a poem about them. You can have them use any form of poetry, or you can instruct them to focus on a specific form (haiku, five senses, etc.) or element (sound device, imagery, etc.).

Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site

Two Poems on the Charles River: Sensory Poetry About Place
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this 2-part activity, 3rd-5th grade students will explore the use of descriptive sensory language to convey a sense of place through poetry. After watching a short video featuring Longfellow’s “To the River Charles” and Yolanda Oliveira’s “Clockwork Stream,” students will analyze descriptive language in poem excerpts, then brainstorm and write their own place-based poem.

Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site

Don’t Lick the Wallpaper: 6th - 8th
  • Type: Guest Speakers
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Many people find comfort and a sense of safety in their homes, but in the 19th century, home was a dangerous place. During the Victorian Era, everyday objects in your home could kill you. But how could a home be so deadly? Students will learn about these hidden dangers and the development of consumer and safety standards to keep us safe within our own homes.

Gettysburg National Military Park

Slyder Family Farm (Formerly Called Impact of War)
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The battle of Gettysburg affected not just the soldiers who fought it, but also the civilians in and around the town - destroying property, stability and livelihoods. The goal of this program and its accompanying materials is to instill a sense of ownership for the Slyder Family Farm in the minds of all the students who visit it, thereby establishing a sensibility and connection to the impact that wars have on entire generations of Americans - soldier and civilian.