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Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve
Let's Go Whale Watching in Glacier Bay!
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Glacier Bay is home to one of the world's most intriguing marine mammals - the endangered Humpback Whale. Come join a Glacier Bay Park Ranger on an interactive journey to learn more about this endangered species. Students will take a look at how Humpback Whales interact with their environment and what Park Researchers are doing to protect them.
Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument
Immigrant Eyes
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Coming to Ellis Island on a field trip? This self-guided activity is a great way for students to learn about the original inspection immigrants had to pass upon their arrival.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The purpose of this activity is to give students practice for a real BioBlitz event, conducted either locally or within a national park.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Watching the Watershed
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
We’ll use a model of a watershed to investigate how water moves through our landscape and have a chance to make our own model to test in the classroom.
Lowell National Historical Park
Change Over Time: Through Children's Eyes Virtual Field Trip
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Discover the stories of people who came from all over the world to Lowell and who now make up the city’s diverse community. By investigating primary sources, oral histories, and objects, students learn about the immigrant groups who arrived in the U.S. in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, including why they came, how they met the challenges of settling in a different environment, and how they contributed to their new community.
Haleakalā National Park
And Then There Were None
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Haleakalā National Park preserves one of the only intact examples of a native Hawaiian ecosystem. This lesson will be a review of native species that live in the park. Students will play a game to explore (positive and negative) factors that impact native ecosystems and how those factors impact the populations of a species.
Lewis and Clark National Historical Park
"We Proceeded On..."
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will learn about maps and what information can be gathered from them through the use of maps of the lower Columbia River. Using math and timing their own walking speeds students will be able to determine how long it would take to drive from one location to Fort Clatsop, walk to Fort Clatsop, and how much that would cost.
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
We Want You!
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
At the start of the U.S.-Mexican War, both Mexican and U.S. citizens mistrusted a standing army. In this activity, students discuss reasons for joining an army. Next, they discuss the differences between a regular army and a militia of volunteers. Then they review and discuss U.S. and Mexican perspectives on regular and volunteer soldiers.
Everglades National Park
"The Water Watch" Water: 4-6 Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The student will be able to: a) list two reasons why water conservation is necessary for the preservation of the Everglades, b) list two ways in which they can increase community involvement in water conservation, and c) produce a petition which lists ways to conserve water and get at least one hundred signatures on their petition.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this lesson, students will answer the following essential question: What combination of factors, both natural and manmade, is necessary for healthy river restoration and how does this enhance the sustainability of natural and human communities?
Everglades National Park
“Going… Going… Gone!” Water: 4-6 Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The students will be able to: a) list two of the factors involved in the extinction of small populations, and b) differentiate between an individual organism, a species, and a population.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
What were Wilbur and Orville like when they were in grade school? What did they do for fun? Why did they decide to fly? Explore all of these questions with your students in this in-classroom lesson plan designed to introduce students to who Wilbur and Orville Wright were. Students will research the brothers and construct a timeline of important events in their lives. Subject(s): Social Studies. Grade(s): 3rd-5th.
- Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students analyze two primary source documents to learn about the lives and work of enslaved people in Salem and Essex County. Enslaved people mentioned in these documents were connected to Salem merchant, Richard Derby.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
We The People: Life at a Frontier Fort
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
We The People explores the many roles present in the community of people who called Fort Scott and the surrounding area home in the 1840s.
Everglades National Park
"Going, Going, Gone" Don't Let It Loose: 5-8th Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The students will be able to define the terms native, alien, endangered and extinct; explain the impact of exotic vegetation to natural communities; name at least three native and three exotic species found in South Florida.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
There are many different and varied invasive species, but for this lesson the key points are that the species is (1) not native and (2) causes harm to either the economy or the environment. This activity will allow students to focus on one invasive species and present the information that they find about their species to classmates in a classroom go-around at the end of their research.
Hamilton Grange National Memorial
Go exploring with Flat Ranger
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to: research facts about National Parks present information to the class participate in an individual or group project
Everglades National Park
“And Then There Were None” Wildlife: 4-6 Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Groups of students will receive a species identity as well as population cards to represent their abundance in nature. The teacher will then read out scenarios that disrupt different species populations. As the students’ species is affected they lose population cards. Students will discover the many ways in which human actions affect the natural world.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
We the People: Challenges of Life at a Frontier Fort
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will be able to write an imaginary letter describing what life was like at a frontier fort in the 1840’s.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn how this American Revolution battle spurred colonial unity and sparked the formation of the Continental Army. What were the motivations and consequences of the Battle of Bunker Hill?