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Gateway Arch National Park

ArtCH Camp Summer Camp

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

Explore the Gateway Arch National Park like never before! Students will visit the Gateway Arch learn how to draw, paint, sculpt, and build with professional artists to create their own masterpieces.

Gateway Arch National Park

ECO Rangers Summer Camp

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

Explore what lives in our lakes, ponds, streams, forests, and prairie lands. Do the same macros live in the creeks and ponds? What birds and animals live in the prairie lands vs woodlands? Fish the lakes and rivers, fine tune your archery marksmanship, net for macros in ponds, and search for the birds in our Missouri’s public lands.

Gateway Arch National Park

Extreme Rangers Summer Camp

• Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Do you have what it takes to be an extreme Ranger? Put your outdoor adventure skills to the test finding your way by compass, build a shelter, make your own survival fishing pole and see if you can catch the big one. Paddle your way on float trip. Put all your skills together on an overnight camp out at one of our Missouri State parks.

Gateway Arch National Park

Rookie Rangers Summer Camp

• Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Rookie Rangers is an introduction to the adventures of the Outdoor Ranger Camps. Join us in Ranger adventures in hiking, water safety, fishing, archery, outdoor survival skills, and cave exploration.

Glacier National Park

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter

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

Students discuss the characteristics of each of the four seasons by comparing photographs of Montana during spring, summer, fall, and winter.

Gateway Arch National Park

Segregation Laws in the 1800s: Williams v. Bellefontaine

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

In 1867, Neptune and Caroline Williams sued the Bellefontaine Railway Company over its discriminatory policies regarding African Americans. In a dispute with the streetcar operator, Mrs. Williams was hurt. The Williamses sued at the St. Louis Courthouse and won their case, but with a twist. Will students reach the same verdict?

Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site

Teacher-Ranger-Teacher Program

• Type: Teacher-Ranger-Teacher
• Grade Levels: Adult Education

Teacher-Ranger-Teacher is a summer program that aims to connect teachers with National Park Service units to create educational programs that are mutually beneficial for the teacher and the park.

Acadia National Park

Canada Goose Migration

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

Many bird populations migrate, and the most common pattern involves flying north in the spring to breed in the temperate or Arctic summer, then returning in the fall to wintering grounds in warmer regions to the south. The longer days of the northern summer provide greater opportunities for breeding birds to feed their young. Many northern-breeding ducks, geese, and swans also are migrants, but need only to move from their northern breeding grounds far enough south to escape frozen waters.

Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park

Teacher Ranger Teacher Program at Palo Alto Battlefield NHP

• Type: Teacher-Ranger-Teacher
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This summer get paid to do something completely different! Palo Alto Battlefield NHP is recruiting teachers for the Teacher Ranger Teacher program. This year the program will focus on creating self-guided educational experiences.

Shenandoah National Park

A Retreat Fit for a President

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This interactive program uses Rapidan Camp, President Herbert Hoover’s summer retreat, to explore the events leading up to the Great Depression and how President Hoover's personal and political philosophies defined his approach to the crisis.

Andersonville National Historic Site

The martyrs who, for our country, gave up their lives in the prison pens in Andersonville, Ga

• Type: Primary Sources
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Captain James M. Moore, assistant quartermaster United States army, led the expedition to Andersonville in the summer of 1865 which established the National Cemetery. This booklet includes his official report of the expedition and includes a listing of the dead buried at Andersonville.

Gateway Arch National Park

Trial for the Right to Vote: Virginia Minor v. Happersett

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

In a room on the second floor of the St. Louis Courthouse in 1873, Virginia Louisa Minor sued a city registrar for denying her the right the register to vote. What was her argument? In this mock trial, students will reenact the 1873 trial, listen to both sides, and reach their own verdict in the case.

Andersonville National Historic Site

A list of the Union soldiers buried at Andersonville

• Type: Primary Sources
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Dorence, a prisoner held at Andersonville for eleven months, spent much of his time held at the prison as a paroled prisoner, working in the hospital office as a clerk. It was in this capacity that he made a secret copy of the death register. He and Clara Barton accompanied the Army expedition to Andersonville in the summer of 1865.

Yellowstone National Park

A Bear's Menu

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

Working in small groups, students examine the feeding habits of bears and draw pictures to show what bears do in spring, summer, fall, and winter. Students use a small pattern of a grizzly bear and increase its scale to construct a full-size silhouette of a grizzly in order to appreciate the bear’s size.

Indiana Dunes National Park

West Beach Walk

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

Explore the dunes and experience the forces of nature that created them. Observe water, wind and waves in action and learn how they work together to form mountains of sand. Program availability: spring, summer, fall. Age group: Preschool - 3rd grade. Location: West Beach. Length: 1.0 - 1.5 hours.

African Americans and the War of 1812: A Lightning Lesson from Teaching with Historic Places

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

The War of 1812, which pitted the United States, Great Britain and their allies against each over the course of three years, turned into an opportunity for enslaved African Americans to advocate for their freedom. Between the summers of 1813 and 1814, 4,000-5,000 fled to the side of the British, in the hopes of securing freedom and safe passage for themselves and their families.

Gateway Arch National Park

Tort Liability: Franke v. City of St. Louis

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

Frederick Franke was injured in St. Louis when part of a building fell on his head as he was walking. Tragically, he died as a result of his injuries. His mother, Julia Franke, sued the owner of the building and the City of St. Louis for damages. This case was heard in 1888 in the St. Louis Courthouse (the Old Courthouse). Students will reenact the case and hear from all sides.

Indiana Dunes National Park

A Grain of Truth

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

Explore the dunes and gain a personal experience of how they came to be. Observe how winds and powerful waves work to create and erode moving sand dunes. Hike the foredunes and beach to learn about the processes of dune building, glaciation, and erosion. Program availability: Spring-summer-fall. Age group: 4th grade and up. Location: West Beach. Length: 1.5 hours.

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.

Martin Van Buren National Historic Site

"Temperature, Clouds and Sun is Weather - Oh, My!"

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

The program consists of videos, hands-on projects, and observation-based activites. The participant will: Create a cloud headband. Learn about the job of a Meteorologist. Predict tomorrow’s weather. Learn about Martin Van Buren’s year without a Summer. Conduct an experiment to create a cloud in a jar and document the type of cloud by comparing it to a cloud chart. Enjoy some En Plein Air drawing or painting of cloud formations.