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The Power of Tools
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Forces & Tools
Lithic Tools
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Climate Science in Focus: Data and Tools
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will use scientific data on streamflow from the Sierra Nevada to analyze snowpack and draw conclusions about the changing climate. Students will be able to predict changes that will occur to the Sierra Nevada snowpack if the climate change continues, and predict the changes that will result on the biosphere due to climate change.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In “Exploring Climate Science (Streamflow Tools and Data),” students will use data to draw conclusions about climate change. The students will be able to: 1. Create a double line graph to show the changes in streamflow throughout the year 2. Make two predictions about how climate change may affect stream flows
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Excavations and excavation tools are designed to answer greater questions about the past. Students will review a working excavation, and see some of the methods that archeologists employ at active dig sites. The discussions are built around the ethics of stewardship and can expand to topics on the environment, sustainability, and responsibility.
Carving Tools at Mount Rushmore for Grades 3, 4 and 5
- Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Carving Tools at Mount Rushmore for Grades K, 1 and 2
- Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students will practice identifying and correctly naming geometric shapes within Mount Rushmore. Students will learn about the marks that carving tools make. Students will also learn about the processes of rock removal at Mount Rushmore and why the different tools were used at each point of the process.
Cowboy Gear: 3rd - 4th Grade
How Big is the Statue of Liberty?
Today and Yesterday: Comparing Cultures
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson we will compare some of the tools that the Hopewell used to satisfy their basic human needs to the ones we use for our needs today. We will talk briefly about why the tools in past might serve the same function as present day tools but are made from different materials. In the end we will learn that people in the past were not too different than we are now they had the same basic needs in life but were living in a different time and environment.
Freeing the Elwha ("Local History")
Compass Course - Using a Compass
Saving the Past, Shaping the Future
Ranger in a Rucksack
Field Trip: Discover Archeology
Who Was a Blacksmith?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The blacksmith was an essential member of a 19th century community. Before there were factories to make iron tools and objects, the blacksmith filled this role. To become a blacksmith involved years as an apprentice and hard work learning the skills needed to build, fix or repair things made from iron. Blacksmiths worked on the metal rims for wheels on wagons, tools, and other items used in homes or on equipment. After 1900, the profession of blacksmithing declined as factories filled this need.
Replace or Repurpose?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The ability to work metal was a critical skill in the late 1800s American West. Local blacksmiths provided the metal tools and objects people used every day. But this skill became more important among cowboys during the Great Depression of the 1930s. As ranches struggled to earn money to survive, metal’s ability to be repaired and reshaped into new tools gained importance. This lesson invites students to step into the minds of cowboys living during the Great Depression and repurposing items.