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Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park
Resources and Energy
- Type: Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Teachers can use these worksheet templates to help students understand resource and energy use. One worksheet provides a Venn diagram template with U.S. Energy Consumption source graph, and another worksheet provides a chart template for students to record information on different types of energy sources. There is also an energy research project assignment with rubric.
Yellowstone National Park
To Eat or Be Eaten
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In “To Eat or Be Eaten,” students demonstrate energy transfer and connections between plants and animals.
Grand Teton National Park
Dress for Winter
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The lesson relates outdoor preparedness to the dramatic winter weather of Grand Teton National Park. In order to safely enjoy and explore the outdoors, students need to have the understanding that clothing can wick, insulate, and transfer heat energy.
Badlands National Park
Bison Banquet: Food Chains and Food Webs of the Prairie
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson students will students will identify the components of a prairie food chain and prairie food web. Students will be able to illustrate the transfer of energy in both a food chain and a food web. Students will also explore how environmental changes impact the food chain and food web.
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.
Channel Islands National Park
Channel Islands Live Dive: 6th Grade
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students explore the kelp forest with a park ranger-diver through an interactive distance learning program. As kelp forest inhabitants are encountered, students identify their roles as producers or consumers. Food chains are constructed and the transfer of energy is discussed. Affects of human activities on kelp forests are also explored.
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
Ecology Three-Touch Field Trip Model
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Have you ever thought about how to power a person? We don't plug ourselves into an outlet on the wall, rather we get our energy from the food that we eat. This field trip focuses on the questions surrounding how energy is transferred throughout an ecosystem, how ecologists classify living things, and how living and non-living things interact. The field trip follows a three-touch model, where students complete activities in the classroom before and after a field trip.
Kenai Fjords National Park
Fabulous Fjord Ecosystem
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Fjord estuary ecosystems only exists in 6 places around the world! Students will explore this unique environment, observe the plants and animals that thrive here and consider the interconnected systems that maintain its delicate balance. This program discusses the transfer of energy within food webs and changes in community/population dynamics. Students will have the opportunity to dive into humans’ role in this ecosystem and their local ecosystems.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Web of Life
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson will help students visualize the interconnections found within the natural world. They will learn the concepts of food chains and food webs, and construct their own food web using the provided worksheet of plants and animals found in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Badlands National Park
Bison Banquet
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
All life needs energy to grow and survive. Plants receive a vital part of their energy from the Sun, while animals receive their energy from eating plants or other animals. The path energy takes through a series of organisms is known as a food chain, while all the paths energy can travel through an ecosystem is known as a food web. Discover how the mixed-grass prairie plants and animals of Badlands National Park are connected to each other through food chains and an overall food web.
Lowell National Historical Park
Waterpower: Powering a Revolution Virtual Field Trip
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Explore how Lowell's many integrated systems, including waterwheels and turbines, transformed the potential energy of the Merrimack River into kinetic energy that ran the machines. Through a series of investigations led by one of our educators, students generate hypotheses and analyze data to determine the most efficient ways to distribute energy to all the mills' machines.
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
Pleistocene Food Scene
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will model the flow of energy through Pleistocene (Ice Age) food chains.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will learn how archeologists use pollen to learn more about past lifeways and environmental conditions, the methodological steps involved in pollen analysis, and how archeologists interpret their results. Este plan de clase con actividades incluido también está disponible en español.
Mount Rainier National Park
A String of Volcanoes
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students research information about Cascade volcanoes in Washington, Oregon, and California, then transfer the information onto the appropriate mobile piece before constructing the mobile "A String of Volcanoes".
Sitka National Historical Park
Shifting Sovereignty: How the United States Took Control of Alaska
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The transfer of Alaska from the hands of Imperial Russia to the United States represents a major turning point in the history of Alaska, the United States, and Russia. Given that the transfer ceremony took place in Sitka, in what was then the Russian city of New Archangel, our park is uniquely suited to educate students about the growth and change of Russian America and the myriad of social, economic, and military changes that occurred in both the Unite States and Russia.
Zion National Park
Sustainable Design Solutions: Mitigating Effects of Natural Resource Use
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Using Zion's visitor center as inspiration, students will design energy-efficient buildings to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park
Telling the Stories of Pu'uhonua o Hōnaunau
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Pu'uhonua o Hōnaunau contains many stories of past and present Hawaiian peoples. This lesson couples 3D virtual tours with oral histories, archeological data, and historical information to reveal and explore these narratives. Este plan de clase con actividades incluido también está disponible en español.
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
Frederick Douglass, The Educator of Anacostia: “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will learn about Frederick Douglass’s passion for learning and sharing knowledge with the African-American community. They will use 3D printed replicas to practice skills in primary source research, critical thinking, discussion, and writing. Este plan de clase con actividades incluido también está disponible en español.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will learn about the challenges that 19th- and 20th-century women faced when choosing a career path. They will then read a biography of Florence Hawley Ellis, one of the earliest American women to break into the male-dominated field of archeology. Este plan de clase con actividades incluido también está disponible en español.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Ann Axtell was a prominent archeologist, artist, and author. Ann spent much of her time recording and painting architecture, petroglyphs and pictographs, landscapes, and expedition work. Many of her recording methods are still in use today by modern archeologists. Este plan de clase con actividades incluido también está disponible en español.