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Gateway Arch National Park

MO Outdoor Rangers

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

Splash your way through a week of water fun. Paddle your way through our great Missouri waterways, build a creek dam and explore nature’s water creatures, and catch a big one fishing the shores of Missouri’s parks and public lands.

Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument

Fossil Teeth: Changing Climates and Evolutionary Responses Preserved in the Fossil Record (Lesson Plan by Geoscientist-in-the-Park Gina Roberti)

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students will look at changes in tooth size and shape (morphology) in the fossil record of herbivorous mammals in North America using data from a recent paleontological study. Students will infer factors which caused the observed evolutionary adaptions and link biological adaptation with global climate change and localized habitat change.

Assateague Island National Seashore

Horse Teeth and Diet

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

In this lesson plan, students will use the scientific method to learn about horses' diets from 3d replicas of horse teeth found on Assateague Island. The 3d replicas are viewable online, or the files may be downloaded and 3d printed. In the process, students will learn an archeological method for learning about animals' lives in the past.

Haleakalā National Park

Protect Our Parks

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

At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to determine how Haleakalā National Park protects cultural and natural resources and how the students can help protect them too.

Haleakalā National Park

What Is A National Park?

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

At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to determine how Haleakalā National Park protects special native habitats and how the students can help protect them too.

Haleakalā National Park

What Is A National Park?

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

At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to determine how Haleakalā National Park protects cultural and natural resources and how the students can help protect them too.

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park

I Think I Know About Slavery... Pre-Visit Activity

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

During the decades preceding the Civil War, when the United States struggled to define itself, no issue more divided and plagued its people than slavery. Even among those who had doubts about its morality, slavery was debated as part of a complex set of interlocking philosophical, social, economic, and political concerns too difficult to resolve and too intertwined with the fate of the nation to consider abolishing.

Haleakalā National Park

Protecting a Volcano

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

At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to determine how Haleakalā National Park protects natural, cultural, and geologic resources and how the students can help protect them too.

Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument

What's for Dinner?

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

Students will observe the shape of living and extinct animals’ teeth to determine whether they are carnivores or herbivores.

Acadia National Park

Virtual: Grades 4-5: Jr. Bat Researchers – All About Bats

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

Learn all about bats as we debunk myths, review adaptations, and examine their importance. We’ll dive into some bat research going on in the park and discuss how rangers and students can help protect bats too. (1 hour)

Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument

Checking In

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

The legal inspection was next. For immigrants, this was the final test to pass before a new life in America. Do your students have what it takes to pass the dreaded legal examination? Through role playing, let’s see if your students can get into America too!

Petrified Forest National Park

Ask a Ranger Virtual Field Trip

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

Is your classroom too far away to visit the park? Don't worry, you can still connect with a ranger! The Ask a Ranger program can be done for Grades K-12 & College. It is 30 minutes of video conference where students ask questions about park resources or conservation.

Badlands National Park

Kylie's Fossil Find

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

In May 2010, a seven-year old girl named Kylie found a fossil near the visitor center at Badlands National Park. She did the right thing. She reported her find to rangers. It turned out to be a rare and well-preserved saber tooth cat fossil. This nonfiction story will help students understand the science of paleontology and the importance of protecting our natural resources and identify with the real-life story of another young student.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

4th Grade: Geology

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

Students will learn that wind, water, and ice are the forces that drive weathering, erosion, and deposition. They will discover that some of these processes occurred long ago, and some are still occurring today. Students will make observations about the rocks and minerals that make up our sand. Students will understand that the dunes at Sleeping Bear are special and that plants that grow on them can change them, too.

Petrified Forest National Park

Where in the World is Petrified Forest Virtual Field Trip

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

Is your classroom too far away to visit the park? Don't worry, you can still connect with a ranger! The Where in the World is Petrified Forest program is for Grades 4-6. This program is an introduction to the environment that existed during the Late Triassic, Plate Tectonics, and Geography. It consists of 90 minutes of pre-program classroom activities with a 45 minute live video conference with a ranger.

Arches National Park

Heat, Light, and Sound

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

In these lessons, students investigate how energy moves through desert ecosystems in the form of heat, light, and sound. Students learn about insulators for heat and how sunscreen works to protect skin from UV light. They use sound to search for birds, and lenses to complete a scavenger hunt. The lesson concludes with a discussion about how too much heat, light, or sound can be harmful.

Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve

Making Corn Husk Dolls

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

Students will learn how to make a corn husk doll, and then compare the toys they have with toys that children of the 19th century played with (and often made) as a daily life comparison. Corn was grown at Kingsley Plantation, and while it was used for food, other parts of the plant were useful too. Children back then would have had as much fun using their imaginations to make their toys as they did when playing with them!

Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park

Do Artifacts Tell Stories?

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

How do the artifacts tell the stories of the soldiers and camp women who served in the Civil War? In this lesson, students: Compare and contrast what Civil War soldiers used during their free time and what you use today Learn how artifacts tell us about the life of a Civil War soldier

Cowpens National Battlefield

Linear Formation of Cowpens

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Cowpens has some great math examples in history to explore for a cross curricular lesson. Morgan formed his troops in three lines straddling the road. The linear formation of troops charged enemy targets while firing in unison. Although not graphed on a Cartesian plane (x-y axis), students can graph their beginning formation. Two levels of the lesson are provided. One option is for advanced students too look at the map and create their own equation and restrictions appropriate for their model. T

National Park of American Samoa

Climate Change: A Warming Planet

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

Our world is always changing. Look out your window long enough and you might see the weather change. Look even longer, and you'll see the seasons change. The Earth's climate is changing, too, but in ways that you can't easily see. Round-n-round the Earth goes, where change may happen nobody knows! This program will help students understand the changes occurring in the Earth’s climate, its impact on local ecosystems and help them discover ways to help.