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Threats to Biodiversity Bingo

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

This activity allows students to learn about the different threats to biodiversity (HIPPO) by making a card and playing bingo.

Acadia National Park

Migration Threats Activity

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

Students will be able to identify the challenges birds face during migration by playing a game where each student is assigned a bird during migration.

Haleakalā National Park

Species in Danger

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

At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to: 1. Identify endemic and endangered species in Maui and explain why native habitats are critical to the survival of these species. 2. Understand that biodiversity of an ecosystem depends on many interconnected factors and that an effect on one factor can influence all the others. 3. Name three reasons why people should care about the loss of endemic species.

Invasive Species

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

This activity will introduce students to some of the invasive species that pose a threat to native species in Haleakalā National Park. Students will learn how to identify different invasive species and will create an invasive species poster to share with their classmates.

Grand Canyon National Park

Superhero Species

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

Students will create original drawings illustrating plant and animal adaptations that they find in their surrounding environment.

Grand Canyon National Park

Save the Endangered Species!

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

Students will learn about endangered species through research and conversation and will create an original poster about one endangered species they want to protect.

Niobrara National Scenic River

Prehistoric Species of the Niobrara River

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

40 minutes classroom time https://youtu.be/N1baY1BbEYA Students will be able to compose a fictional first-person narrative from the perspective of a prehistoric species of the Niobrara National Scenic River following the guided prompts to examine and articulate its internal and external life experience of changing climate and landscape in a 9 minute essay.

Haleakalā National Park

Autobiographies of Extinct and Endangered Species

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

This lesson is about why species become endangered or extinct. Students will do a case study of one extinct and one endangered species. The two biggest threats to a species survival are invasive species and habitat loss. Students will learn what an invasive species is and see visuals of habitat loss on Maui. Without intervention and management, these endangered species could disappear within the students’ lifetime.

Invasive Species Children's Storybook

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

Students begin this activity listening to a children’s storybook that teaches them about a science concept. They will then be challenged to use their creativity to write a children’s story that young children could read to learn about invasive species. In the process of writing the book, their understanding of invasive species and their impact on the environment will be further enhanced.

Invasive Species Raising Awareness

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

This activity encourages students / teachers to make a difference in the area they live in and either (1) educate the public about invasive species, (2) change your lifestyle to prevent introduction of invasive species, or (3) take on a project to highlight and/or eradicate an invasive species in your area. After an introduction to the learning objective, student groups start to brainstorm ideas of things they can do in their community and create an action plan.

Invasive Species Go-Around

• 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.

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore

Invasive Species in the Great Lakes

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

A classroom-based program that reviews pre-site and field trip lessons about animal adaptation, survival, and their ecosystems. This is part three of a three part series, but can be done independent of the prior two activities/field trip.

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve

Explore Barataria! Invasive Species – Water Hyacinth

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

Learn about one invasive species present at the Barataria Preserve, called the Water Hyacinth. Then see if you can you answer all of the questions and teach a sibling, friend, parent, or guardian about control measures for invasive species.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Water Those? Aquatic Invasive Species at Sleeping Bear

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

The Water Those? program will introduce your students to aquatic invasive species, how they impact our ecosystems, and what we can do to help.

Cowpens National Battlefield

The Cowpens Landscape Today: Native, Exotic, and Invasive Species

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

To demonstrate to students how exotic and invasive species are changing the Cowpens National Battlefield landscape in context of comparative changes,nationwide.

Helping Each Other

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

The survival of different species depends on two species helping each other. The complex relationships within one habitat can be hurt when one of the species is threatened or one of the species becomes extinct.

Everglades National Park

"Unwanted Guests" Don't Let It Loose: 5-8th Grade

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

Everglades is home to many species of animals, fifteen of which are considered endangered. The invasion of exotic species is a threat to native species. Removing exotics from the Everglades is expensive and not always successful.

Indiana Dunes National Park

A Royal Journey

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

The goal of A Royal Journey is to spread the voice on conservation and need of this threatened species. We also strive to bring a scientist’s journey into the concept of the student’s thinking. The dynamic timeliness of necessity has inspired the Indiana Dunes National Park to invite and educate students of today and adults of tomorrow to learn and save this imperiled species.

Shenandoah National Park

9th-12th Grade | Virtual Exploring Earth Science: The Shenandoah Salamander and Climate Change

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

The Shenandoah salamander is an endangered species found only on a few rocky slopes within Shenandoah National Park. Its survival is being threatened by changing climate and habitat competition. Students will virtually explore and research to determine how climate change and habitat competition could be impacting the survival of the Shenandoah salamander. Students will collaborate and present potential survival plans for the species. Two 60 minute sessions

Shenandoah National Park

9th-12th Grade | Exploring Earth Science: The Shenandoah Salamander and Climate Change

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

The Shenandoah salamander is an endangered species found only on a few rocky slopes within Shenandoah National Park. Its survival is being threatened by changing climate and habitat competition from the more common red-backed salamander. Students will conduct field research on the red-backed salamander to compare the two salamander species’ habitat requirements and determine how climate change and habitat competition are impacting the survival.