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Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve

Trail Skits

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

Students will learn how to be prepared, respect the natural ecology, and be safe on their trip to Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve.

Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve

On the Trail of a Whale

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

Students take on the roles of whales and researchers, learning about underwater research and whale communication.

Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve

The Camouflage Trail

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

On this field trip, students will gain an understanding of the concept of camouflage and adaptation. This outdoor activity could also be done in another natural area.

Fort Smith National Historic Site

Trail of Tears

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

Trail of Tears Lesson Plan

Fort Scott National Historic Site

Trail of Tears

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

During this in-class lesson, students will learn about the Trail of Tears.

"Oregon Trail Adventure"

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Do your students have what it takes to make it to Oregon? In this fun activity, students will pack their wagons for the journey west along the Oregon Trail through Nebraska and beyond. As they make their way west, we will look at maps to gauge progress and discuss the features that determined the route of the trail and the hardships that emigrants would have encountered.

Tracks Along the Trail

• 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.)

Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail

Exploring the Anza Trail

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

Welcome to Exploring the Anza Trail, an interdisciplinary program specifically designed for 3rd and 4th grade students. Through a series of hands-on activities, writing and drawing assignments, and a dramatic 50-minute presentation, students put themselves in the shoes of a colonist on the Anza Trail to explore the universal concepts of overcoming obstacles, using resources, and seeking a better life.

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

Trail Discovery Pack

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

Discovery Pack

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.

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve

Bottomland Hardwood Trail Hike

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

Join Rangers Allyn and Natasha on a trail hike through a beautiful bottomland hardwood forest and see what kind of animals are waiting for you!

Guadalupe Mountains National Park

McKittrick Canyon Nature Trail

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

The McKittrick Canyon Nature Trail, which begins at the contact station, is a .09 mile loop, with interpretive signs along the way. This short trail offers students a hands-on opportunity to study fossil and read about Permian Age geology or learn about native Chihuahuan desert plants.

Guadalupe Mountains National Park

Permian Reef Geology Trail

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

McKittrick Canyon contains a unique biotic community that clings to an intermittent stream which flows over fragile, travertine formations.

Stones River National Battlefield

The Trail of Tears in Middle Tennessee

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

This program will provide a first-hand opportunity for students to walk the original Trail of Tears at Stones River National Battlefield, learn why the Indian Removal Act of 1830 was passed, and the role native Tennessean Andrew Jackson played in the brutal relocation of over 15,000 people.

Cumberland Gap National Historical Park

A Trip Down the Cumberland Trail

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

This lesson will focus on the Cumberland Trail which runs along the steep ridges of the southern mountains from Cumberland Gap National Historical Park in the north to Chickamauga Chattanooga National Millitary Park in the south.

Santa Fe National Historic Trail

Trading on the Santa Fe Trail

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

Overview: Kansas Historical Society offers a highly interactive exploration of life and culture on the trail through the use of a traveling resource trunk. The trunk provides educators with a variety of primary source documents, historical artifacts and photographs. The lessons focus on Kansas and United States history; Most lessons require the physical use of the trunk items.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Cottonwood Trail Post Visit

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

Students have this opportunity to explore the natural history of the dunes at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore through art and looking at modern day photos.

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.

Traveling the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails

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

This lesson is designed to review the purpose of the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails. The students will also expand their knowledge of each trail and put a plan together for a trip on each trail. This plan will include a packing list for their wagons. The students will use primary sources to help form their plans and packing list.

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park

Happy Trails: A Nature Exploration Activity

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

Take a walk into nature, and explore how that can impact your health. Meets Kentucky K-2nd grade PE standards. This lesson was created by Kentucky teachers as a part of the History and Science Explore Project.