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Kings Mountain National Military Park

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

The Battle of Kings Mountain is an excellent example of how landscape and geography can affect the outcome of events.

Acadia National Park

Virtual: Acadia's Top Ten
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

What makes Acadia… Acadia? Invite a ranger to your virtual space to present a slideshow showcasing the resources protected here. This overview acts as a great overview of the Park. 3rd-12th grade.

New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park

Top Ten Field Trip Tips
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Top Ten Field Trip Tips for visiting the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park!

Zion National Park

Earth's Features: Interpreting Patters with Topographic Maps
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will identify a landform around them and create their own topographic map. They will also build a mountain out of playdough and divide the mountain into sections, which they will use to make a topographic map that shows contour lines, elevation changes, and gradients.

Gettysburg National Military Park

Artillery & Teamwork: The 9th Massachusetts Battery AND The Round Tops: A Critical Look
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Battlefield Footsteps is a program that focuses on character traits that can be learned from the Battle of Gettysburg. Teachers select one of three traits to focus on: leadership, courage, or determination. Students will then "walk in the footsteps" of one of three different units while discovering their roles and action in the battle. The units can be either the 9th Massachusetts Battery (Courage); the 15th Alabama (Determination); or 6th Wisconsin (Leadership)

Acadia National Park

Virtual: Grades 3-12: Acadia’s Top 10! (Overview of Acadia Slideshow)
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

What makes Acadia… Acadia? Invite a ranger to your virtual space to present a slideshow showcasing the resources protected here. This overview acts as a great introduction to the Park! (45 minutes)

Death Valley National Park

Elevation Above and Below Pre-Trip Activity
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

For this activity students will explore the way topographic maps are used to describe elevation such as “sea level,” “below sea level,” and “above sea level.” Students will compare and contrast side view diagrams of mountains and valleys to topographic maps. Students will use their own hands to create a topographic map of their own.

Haleakalā National Park

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

Haleakalā National Park protects the biodiversity of endemic species. This activity will introduce students to the boundaries and topography of Haleakalā National Park.

Acadia National Park

Sedimentary Sleuths Program Planner
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This hands-on program takes place at Sand Beach and is an exploration of geological processes such as weathering and erosion. Interpretation of geologic and topographic maps is included.

Old Spanish National Historic Trail

Old Spanish Trail Road Trip
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

We’re off on a grand adventure: a road trip across the famous Old Spanish Trail! The Old Spanish Trail was an arduous 1,200 mile route between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Los Angeles, California, which served traders who loaded their pack mules with woolen goods from Santa Fe each fall and returned from California each spring with goods, mules, and horses. The Old Spanish Trail linked two provinces of Mexico separated by difficult topography and climatic extremes.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

3D Modeling and Scale
  • Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Construct a topographic model of Mount Rushmore. After the model is completed, students use concepts of scale and proportion (similarity concept in math) to calculate the scale of their model by comparing to real-life measurements.

Independence National Historical Park

"Here Comes the Sun" Constitution Activity for High School
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This activity uses the Beatles "Here Comes the Sun" song to connect students in grades 9-12 with Benjamin Franklin's famous quote about the sun carved into the top of the Speaker's Chair at the Constitutional Convention.

Rocky Mountain National Park

Wildfire Behavior
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Join a ranger to discover wildfire’s role in nature and to engage in a fun, interactive activity that dives deep into what influences wildfire behavior- topography, weather, and fuel. Participants will explore the causes of wildfire through the lens of the 2020 East Troublesome Fire and how that knowledge can help us prepare and keep ourselves and our communities safe.

Kings Mountain National Military Park

The Battle of Kings Mountain
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The Battle of Kings Mountain (October 7, 1780) was one of the most dramatic and hotly contested battles of the Revolutionary War. On an isolated ridge top in the Carolina backcountry, nearly 1000 American Patriots surrounded and overwhelmed an approximately equal number of American Loyalists.

Death Valley National Park

Floodwaters in the Desert Lab Activity
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will explore precipitation through discussion, videos, and a PowerPoint presentation. For the lab activity, students will explore the way flood waters can affect the landscape and topography in the desert. Students will observe what happens to the landscape as different amounts of water are dropped on the hillside.

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site

Victorian Toy Trunk
  • Type: Traveling Trunk
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Ideal for grades pre-K through six. This trunk contains various toys popular in the late 19th century. These include: marbles, tops, ball-in-cup games, slates, hoop and stick and many others. A teachers' guide provides more information and instructions.

Natchez Trace Parkway

Read with a Ranger 'C' is for Chickasaw
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Designed for early elementary students, this program uses the alphabet as a tool to teach students about Chickasaw culture. The Chickasaw Nation has historically occupied the top half of Mississippi and played an integral role in the formation and utilization of the Natchez Trace and continues to play a significant role in the culture of the community of the area.

Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks

Life in the Balance
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

How do squirrels help Giant Sequoias grow? Do fires hurt or help trees? How does a snowflake at the top of a mountain provide water to oranges in the valley below? Explore the community of living and nonliving things in a Giant Sequoia grove and learn what part you play in the forest ecosystem.

Gateway Arch National Park

Every Kid Outdoors 4th Grade program
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Gateway Arch National Park would like to invite you and your 4th grade class for a FREE visit to the park through the Every Kid Outdoors (EKO) program! Thanks to a grant from the National Park Foundation, transportation costs will be paid in full. Your visit will include a ranger-led museum program and FREE rides to the Top of the Gateway Arch.

Allegheny Portage Railroad: Developing Transportation Technology
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Follow 19th-century travelers as they cross the treacherous Allegheny Mountains using an innovative inclined railway.