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Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

So You Wanna Be a Paleontologist?

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

Students will become familiarized with fossils that have been uncovered in Florissant Fossil Beds from the Eocene and Quaternary. They will select a certain extinct species and make a sketch on a Popsicle stick canvas. After shuffling their Popsicle stick fossil, they will then hide the sticks around a room and have someone else find and "excavate" the Popsicle stick fossil and attempt to put it back together. Best done with a partner to exchange fossils to find and put together.

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

So You Wanna Be a Paleobotanist?

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

Students will re-create scientific studies done by paleobotanists analyzing data from fossil plants found at Florissant Fossil Beds to draw conclusions about the paleoclimate 34 million years ago. In this activity, students will identify fossil plant species by their leaves, review data on the growing conditions of their nearest modern plant relatives, and compare as many species as possible to determine the range of temperature and precipitation that the fossil plant community can live in.

Discover the Total Solar Eclipse of 1900 in Historic Wadesboro, North Carolina: A Lightning Lesson from Teaching with Historic Places

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

What is a “total solar eclipse”? What historic place might you study to answer this question?

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

So you want to be an American President

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

This lesson is opened with a discussion, followed by the reading of Judith St. George and David Small's book, "So you want to be President", then progress into assignments, presentations, gallery walk and awards as applicable to the teacher.

Everglades National Park

"What's So Special?" Environment: 4-6 Grade

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

Students will draw a favorite plant, animal, or activity common to the Everglades environment and explain, in writing, the reason they chose it. This will help students recognize and identify one valuable aspect of a national park’s environment, and draw conclusions as to why they value that aspect of the environment.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

Hope Inspired Community

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

Read aloud "So You Want To Be President", discuss as a group then create a timeline

Voyageurs National Park

Beaver Lodge Family

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

Why is the beaver population so resilient? Students can simulate the life of a beaver in the beaver lodge!

Frederick Douglass National Historic Site

Frederick Douglass and the Power of Literacy

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This 20-30 minute program works with students to discover why reading was so powerful for Douglass as a slave and then as an abolitionist.

Independence National Historical Park

The Liberty Bell as a Modern Symbol, grades 3-5

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

Students will understand that the Liberty Bell has meant many things to many people, and continues to do so today.

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site

Facing Adversity

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

This is a lesson plan exploring how Theodore Roosevelt, despite childhood asthma and sickness grew up to influence so many others.

Frederick Douglass National Historic Site

Taking a Stand Against Slavery: Stories from Frederick Douglass. Grade 4

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

This lesson, designed for 4th graders, explores the life and accomplishments of Frederick Douglass, and in doing so, emphasizes the importance of preserving historic and cultural sites.

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

National Park Legacy - Wildlife in Cities Grades K - 2

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

Coexisting with wildlife requires that actions be taken to reduce conflicts and minimize impacts from human activity so that a healthy appreciation of wildlife can be fostered. Specifically addressed in this lesson are efforts SMMNRA is making to encourage residents to clean up unintentional food resources such as pet food, and secure trash cans so that unwanted wildlife do not seek food on personal property.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Abraham Lincoln: Savior of the Union

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

Born in a small cabin, he rose to the White House. Follow Abraham Lincoln on his adventure to learn and save the nation he so cared about.

Denali National Park & Preserve

At Home in Denali's Biome

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

What is it about Denali’s climate and geography that make it so special . . . and so fun to explore? As students learn about winter and summer in Denali, they will be challenged to compare and contrast Denali’s subarctic biomes to their own home. Through motion and play, we’ll discover how trees and animals survive in Denali year-round, and explore a sampling of the ways humans interact with Denali’s varied landscape and terrain.

The Washington Monument: Tribute in Stone

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

Understand why George Washington was so revered during his lifetime and beyond, and learn why it took 100 years to complete this famous monument in his honor.

Grand Teton National Park

Ask a Ranger at Grand Teton National Park

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Flip your classroom! Grand Teton National Park has a variety of science and history to intrigue your whole class, so let your students’ curiosity take the lead.

Acadia National Park

Virtual: Grades 3-8, Acadia's Birds

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Feathers, beaks and special feet, birds have a diverse array of adaptations for survival! In this lesson, we will investigate several adaptive behaviors and structures that make birds so successful.  (45 minutes)

National Park of American Samoa

Enviro Musical Chairs

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

There's a certain mystique about the word “biodiversity” that seems to be associated with images of steamy jungles or wondrous new medicines, but the word more specifically refers to the number of species or 'species richness' of an area. One reason why tropical areas are so fascinating is that they contain the highest numbers of plant and animal species found anywhere on earth.American Samoa sits squarely in the tropics, so we should have a high biological diversity here, but we do and we don't

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

Climate Change Scavenger Hunt

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

This lesson plan is park specific for Florissant Fossil Beds NM, but can be adjusted. This lesson plan is design to send the students/participants on a hunt to find the ways we are trying to reduce our carbon footprint around the monument.

Philadelphia and San Francisco in 1776: The National Park Sites Where History Unfolded! Grade 5

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

Students will learn about the historic events occurring on opposite ends of the United States during the year 1776: the Anza Expedition and the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In doing so, students will understand the importance of preserving our nation's historical and cultural sites.