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Glacier National Park
Visual Vocabulary
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students use pantomiming to learn, interpret and identify key ecological concepts like 'ecosystems' and 'food web' in this interactive lesson plan.
Ste. Geneviève National Historical Park
Mississippi River Vocabulary
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Introductory materials to set the foundation for learning about rivers and how people have interacted with them over time. This lesson is self-contained and does not require additional material. This lesson is designed as preparation for the Settling the Mississippi unit so familiarity with later lessons may help educators steer this lesson toward uniform terms and repeatable examples throughout the unit.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will build on previous vocabulary pertaining to National Parks, while also thinking about the deeper meaning of what these words entail.
Kenai Fjords National Park
Those Fabulous Fjords!
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will become fluent in the vocabulary and physical geography of fjords. They will understand where fjords occur and why.
Acadia National Park
Leaf Rubbing Activity
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students can find three different leaves, use them to do a leaf rubbing and then use vocabulary words to describe the leaves.
Independence National Historical Park
The Liberty Bell as a Modern Symbol, grades K-2
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students will discuss what a symbol is through various examples. They will learn how the Liberty Bell is used as a symbol for different people, and develop vocabulary pertaining to the Liberty Bell.
Devils Postpile National Monument
Climate Science in Focus: Earth as a System
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will learn about the four Earth systems and how they are connected. Students will be able to: 1. Explain the Earth as a system of interconnected parts 2. Properly define and use Earth science vocabulary
Everglades National Park
"The Everglades are on Fuego" Habitat Video: Pine Rocklands
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The students will be able to distinguish the difference between the four different Everglades ecosystems listed in the key vocabulary- Pine Rocklands, Sawgrass Prairies, Coastal Prairies, Hardwood Hammocks. The students will be able to describe the importance of fire and lightning to the Everglades.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Water Quality Monitoring - High School
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students work through pre-field trip activities that introduce them to vocabulary, methods and aquatic invertebrate orders. During the field trip, students will explore a park stream to monitor its health based on chemical and biological indicators.
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
Why People Move: The Changing Roles of Minorities (Grades 3-5) Lesson 2 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson helps upper elementary students to learn about different minority groups and how their roles have changed over time. Using women’s and Black history students will learn valuable vocabulary. The local, regional, and national examples in this lesson display the connections, experiences, and accomplishments of minority groups in many places through various points in time.
Glacier National Park
Climate Mime-it
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students interpret and identify ecological concepts related to climate change, through the use of pantomime.
National Park of American Samoa
Carnivores, Herbivores, Omnivores?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Most animals can be grouped by what and how many kinds of foods they eat. Animals that eat many different things are called generalists, while those that eat only one or a few foods are called specialists. True specialization is often a two-way dependency: an animal depends on a plant for food, and the plant depends on that animal to help it disperse its seeds. On remote islands like American Samoa, there are limited food supplies, and cyclones can cause serious shortages of food.
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
Why People Move: Human Migration (Grades 3-5) Lesson 1 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Using examples from North Carolina's own migration history this lesson helps upper elementary students to understand the different types of human migration. Examples range from antebellum mountain summer homes to post-Civil War African American history. Western North Carolina has a long history of human migration in many forms. This lesson is a fun introduction to migration vocabulary with interactive activities to encourage critical thinking and the use of context clues by students.
Mammoth Cave National Park
Webbing The Wonders
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This lesson plan is from "Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3", which comprises ten lessons. This is lesson 9 of that set. This web illustrates the way individual parts connect to form the world's longest cave.
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
LESSON 3 - CREOLIZATION: THE CREATION OF CULTURE
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The lesson examines the process of cultural mixing and evolution through the lens of creolization.
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.
National Park of American Samoa
What Are Corals?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will learn that corals are living animals. They will be introduced to some of the species that make up the biodiversity in coral reefs, and why coral reefs are an important habitat. This lesson will serve as a brief overview of coral anatomy, distribution, its physical properties, and why it is important to conserve coral reefs.
National Park of American Samoa
An Island Is Born
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will learn new geological terms such as tectonic plates, hot spot, and shield volcano. Throughout the activity, students will understand the volcanic processes of building new land. They will also learn two types of volcanoes. (Composite, and Shield volcano), and will be able to tell the difference between the two.
National Park of American Samoa
Coral Reefs: Ecosystems Dissolving
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Corals face in our modern world, a great threat due to a projected change in water chemistry in the ocean due to global warming. Just as carbon dioxide (the main greenhouse gas causing global warming) is increasing in the air, it also increases in seawater in its dissolved form. That makes seawater more acidic which, in turn, may slow the rate at which corals build their calcium carbonate skeletons.
National Park of American Samoa
What is a Fruit Bat?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Fruit bats are considered the only native mammal in American Samoa thus earning the right to be protected within the National Park of American Samoa. Local folklore casts a dark image on fruitbats, portraying them as sinister and devious creatures with connections to the spirit world. These superstitions undermine their ecological importance to the native tropical rainforest. Fruit bats help transfer pollen from one tree to another and are also important for seed dispersal.