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Alaska Public Lands
Track Kit
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Teachers and students will have the opportunity to discover the wonders of animal identification through animal tracks. Activities and samples will enhance their experience.
Glacier National Park
Track Traces
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will use their creative skills to make drawings or designs using animal tracks. This activity will help internalize the tracks they have been studying.
Yellowstone National Park
Making Tracks
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students will compare the tracks of grizzly bears, wolves and humans and make observations about their similarities and differences.
Glacier National Park
Track Stories
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students will learn differences between predator and prey tracks, and unravel track mysteries to tell a story.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will learn to identify some common tracks encountered outdoors, discuss some survival adaptations used by animals during the winter, and piece together stories left by tracks. (This activity can be arranged as a visit to W-GIPP guided by a park ranger, or can be done in any relatively wild area near your school.)
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
By analyzing patterns and measurements, students will be able to identify and label multiple animal track sets in the Track Mystery Table. Students will use critical thinking skills to support their answers.
Glacier National Park
Tracks along the Trail
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this activity, students identify patterns from their own tracks and then look at those made by animals. They make “track cards” to use for matching, classifying, sorting, and a variety of activities.
Acadia National Park
Tracking Nature's Seasons Program Description
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Phenology is the study of the timing of seasonal events. Students will discover nature's calendar, make observations along Acadia's trails, and conduct investigations in the forest to learn how citizens are aiding scientists in protecting Acadia.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Using storyboard, cartoon make, comic book maker.org or the document added the student will create their own story. Picking 2 battles they will develop 2 4-6 frame comics
Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve
Winter Track Mystery: SnowSchool Post-visit Activity
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will use careful observation to identify and label multiple track sets in the track mystery diagram. They will then complete a series of questions based on their interpretation of the diagram using critical thinking and writing skills to support their answers.
Acadia National Park
Virtual: Grades 6-8: Tracking Acadia’s Seasons – Climate Change & Phenology
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will learn about phenology and why it’s important in helping us understand interrelationships of organisms. We will explore seasonal/cyclic changes of plants and animals and the impacts related to climate change while gaining exposure to the concept of citizen science. (45 minutes)
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This lesson will present the diversity of animals found along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, and will help students understand what we can learn about animals from the way they live and move.
Homestead National Historical Park
Prairie Animals (K-2)
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
The trunk includes curriculum materials, tracks, scat, animal furs and animals skulls that can be integrated into science, art, reading, and language arts curriculum. Additionally, the curriculum materials include student station sheets, so students can rotate stations without the teacher having to repeat instructions.
Homestead National Historical Park
Prairie Animals (3-5)
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The trunk includes curriculum materials, tracks, scat, animal furs and animals skulls that can be integrated into science, art, reading, and language arts curriculum. Additionally, the curriculum materials include student station sheets, so students can rotate stations without the teacher having to repeat instructions.
Voyageurs National Park
Exploring Seasonal Changes with Phenology
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn about Phenology and track seasonal changes!
Zion National Park
Dinosaur Discovery Travel Trunk
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The trunk contains nine different plaster replicas of dinosaur tracks and other fossils, and six molds of tracks that can be used to make impressions. A binder includes outlined activities, background information, laminated images, and resources.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students compare black, grizzly, and polar bear shapes, sizes, tracks and food.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Wandering the Watershed Menu 4: Hybrid A: Snowshoe Visit & Design Challenge
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This hybrid track has students visit the park for the snowshoe experience. Then they will complete the design challenge and have the option to chat with a ranger virtually. (FREE design kits provided by the National Park Foundation.)
Acadia National Park
Virtual: Grades 5-6: Pond Ecology, Citizen Scientists at Work!
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn how scientists track the health of Acadia by looking at who is living in a pond! Discover how you can help inventory the plants and animals that live near you! (45 minutes)
Voyageurs National Park
I Spy
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Why do the leaves fall off the trees in the fall? What happens to the flowers and butterflies in the winter? Students can learn to track seasonal changes around them and why these changes occur.