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National Park of American Samoa
Marine Wildlife and Harmful Trash
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students listen to descriptions of marine wildlife and identify marine debris items that could harm them. Students perform an experiment in which they wrap a rubber band around their fingers and across the back of their hand and try to disentangle them. As a class, students discuss their thoughts and reactions and relate to real animals.
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will participate in a comprehensive analysis of trash present in a National Park.During their field study, students will collect, sort, and weigh all trash they have collected as a group.
Cumberland Island National Seashore
Beach Survey
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Every year approximately 14 billion pounds of trash are dumped into the ocean. This trash can create problems for people and wildlife. In this lesson, you can help your students better understand this important issue.
Gateway National Recreation Area
Clean Shore Corps
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will perform a trash survey in their own neighborhood, then one at the beach at Gateway. After comparing the results of the two surveys, students will identify which trash is the most prevalent, and come up with ways to reduce the trash. Rangers will provide lesson plans and equipment for the beach pick up. Please note that this program requires transportation between two points within the park.
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Archeology at Fort Stanwix, On-Site Education Program
- Type: Field Trips ... Field Schools & Institutes
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
What can we learn from the trash and lost objects of the past? “Dig in” to the stories of the past as we prepare objects for the future!
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
National Park Legacy - Coyotes in our Cities! Grades 3 - 4
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Nature Neighbor Project prioritizes reducing conflicts between humans and wildlife so that they can coexist and share available habitat. Ecologists have learned that coyotes are opportunistic eaters, and they will scavenge through trash as well as feed on traditional foods such as rodents, birds, insects, and grass. Coyote and human conflicts can often be eliminated when human-related food is not available.
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
National Park Legacy - Wildlife in Cities Grades K - 2
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Coexisting with wildlife requires that actions be taken to reduce conflicts and minimize impacts from human activity so that a healthy appreciation of wildlife can be fostered. Specifically addressed in this lesson are efforts SMMNRA is making to encourage residents to clean up unintentional food resources such as pet food, and secure trash cans so that unwanted wildlife do not seek food on personal property.
National Park of American Samoa
Harmful Marine Debris
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students complete a form that requires them to make decisions about how severely different types of marine debris affect animals, people, vessels, and habitat. As a class, results are totaled and analyzed to determine which types of marine debris are most harmful to the different categorizes.
George Washington Carver National Monument
George Washington Carver - The Artist: To Be of the Greatest Good
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Focusing on Carver's habit of finding new uses for discarded items, this lesson concludes with students creating art from recycled materials.