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- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
On this field trip, students collect and examine data to understand how availability of resources affects populations of microorganisms in the desert. Students observe desert potholes and learn about strategies organisms use to survive in these diminishing ecosystems. Students also examine desert lichens to see how the orientation of rocks affects a lichen’s ability to thrive.
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In the classroom students learn about inherited traits. In the field, students examine the traits of juniper trees and play a game to model how the environment can act on traits and affect how trees appear. Students also examine kit fox traits and play a game to discover what happens when a trait provides an advantage for survival.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will learn the value of natural resources and how the Ute Indians of central Colorado used natural resources to create tools. Students will also learn to distinguish between the studies of archaeology and paleontology.
Bryce Canyon National Park
Bryce Canyon National Park: Hoodoos Cast Their Spell
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The lesson could be used in U.S. history, social studies, and geography courses in units on westward expansion (especially the Mormon settlement of Utah) and the conservation movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It could also be used in a geology course.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson gives students time to observe the Cedar Breaks amphitheater within a structured context. Students can participate in a ranger led interactive, presentation where they learn about the geological processes including deposition, uplift, weathering and erosion that formed the Claron Formation and our Cedar Breaks amphitheater.
Cedar Breaks National Monument
Life Up High: Precipitation, Elevation & the Sub-alpine Forest
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This interactive presentation introduces students to the three main ecosystems across Utah: deserts, wetlands and forest. The goal is to give students a sense of why the environment at Cedar Breaks National Monument is noticeably different from their more familiar environment down in Cedar City. Emphasis is placed on understanding the effects of elevation on precipitation, temperature and dominant plant life in each ecosystem, with a focus on the high alpine forest ecosystem.
Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument
Southern Paiute Cultural History Curriculum Guide
- Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The purpose of the Southern Paiute Cultural History supplemental curriculum lessons is to provide opportunities for students to learn about the region’s cultural history. Studying about past cultures and traditions provide a context for deeper understanding that links today’s Southern Paiute people with their rich cultural legacy. Archeology helps to provide a better understanding of these connections.
Grand Canyon National Park
Self-guided Ecology Trip
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Observe and experience the diversity of life at Grand Canyon. Get to know the adaptations of the resilient plant life on the rim and engage with the intricate relationships between living things in this community.
Zion National Park
Classification Systems
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Image of two grey fox kits
Arches National Park
Imaginary River Trip
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students take an imaginary river trip -- right in their classrooms. Along the way they explore how humans, animals, and insects use the river to survive.
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.
Zion National Park
Bird Beak Adaptaions
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
A ‘bird beak relay’ race using different objects to represent the beaks and food sources of 3 different birds will demonstrate to students that animals are specifically adapted for the food they eat and their surrounding environment.
Zion National Park
Genetics and Adaptations: Understanding Inherited Traits and Survival
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The students will focus on and discover how different plants living in Zion National Park use their inheritable traits to adapt to their environment. Students will model plant genetics using different colored beans to make combinations of alleles, representing the hybridization of prickly pear cacti in Zion National Park.
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.
Zion National Park
Desert Plant Adaptations: Structures that Support Survival
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Zion’s Desert Plants introduction video. A ‘design a desert plant’ activity where students will draw and present a plant that they created and the adaptations they chose to help it survive.
Cedar Breaks National Monument
Plant Adaptations in the Sub-alpine Forest Ecosystem
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson plan is built for use on a ranger or teacher guided nature walk at Cedar Breaks. Students will learn about plant adaptations to the sub-alpine forest ecosystem. After learning to identify five of the most common sub-alpine trees and shrubs, students will engage in a hands on study of a one-meter plot of forest. The class then will discuss how the plants are uniquely adapted to long cold winters as well as how forests adapt to changing environmental conditions.
Zion National Park
Pollination Adaptations: Connecting Habitat and Anatomy
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Have you ever wondered why bees are so fuzzy? Or how they’re able to find flowers and then travel back to their nests? Or even wanted to know why bees are such good pollinators? Students will have the opportunity to explore the answers to each of those questions. Once students have a basic understanding of bee body parts, they can design their own bee based around a Zion habitat. Students can be as creative as they like—as long as they provide an explanation for how their bee can thrive in Zion!