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Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

Spring and Fall Field Trips
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Craters of the Moon National Monument is an exceptional area to study volcanic geology and the plants and animals native to Idaho's high desert. A field trip to Craters of the Moon allows students to engage first-hand with this volcanic landscape hiking up, around, and in volcanoes, walking through some of the youngest lava flows in the lower 48 states, and exploring one of our lava tube caves.

Haleakalā National Park

Rolling Stones: Haleakalā National Park Rocks!
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This lesson explores the forces of weathering and erosion that shape our island home. It recounts volcanic creation, and then delves into the gradual destruction caused by the forces of wind, water, ice and waves.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

Hulihia Kīlauea – a Complete Change part 2, A field trip to Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park or other outdoor area
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This module was primarily designed for an on-site visit to Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. However, it can be adjusted for an outdoor field trip to another volcanic area, or anywhere that will demonstrate geological processes.

Mount Rainier National Park

Soda Bottle Volcano and Mount Rainier
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will examine how gases provide for explosive volcanic eruptions by making comparisons to gases in a soda bottle and by conducting a carefully controlled "eruption" of baking soda/vinegar or soda water.

Mount Rainier National Park

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

In this activity, students will model depositional processes from volcanically active areas using sediments in a shoebox, interpret geologic events from layers in a classmate's shoebox model and draw a stratigraphic column graphic.

Ages and Stages: The Life of a Hawaiian Volcano
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will learn about the evolution of a volcanic island from origin to erosion. They will understand that Hawaiian volcanoes have gradually progressed through different stages as they are formed, emerge, and erode back into the sea from which they came.

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.

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park

1800 and Froze to Death
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In 1816, a volcano changed the lives of people here in Kentucky. Students will explore how can the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact when the atmosphere is impacted by volcanic activity. Meets Kentucky 3rd-5th grade science standards. This lesson was created by Kentucky teachers as a part of the History and Science Explore Project.

Mount Rainier National Park

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

Students investigate the influence of magma viscosity on the shape of a volcanic cone. Then, they explore nature and motions of lava flows and learn about the importance of lava flows as the building blocks of Mount Rainier. Students will: How do lava flows influence volcano structure and type, specifically at Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, and Kilauea?

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

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

Meeting at the site of one of the longest eruptions in recorded Hawaiian history, we take you on a journey through post eruption, debris, formations, and creation. Using science, math and history, students are able to take an in-depth look into the after-effects of volcanic activity in Hawai'i, as well as gain a better understanding of the different formations created in the process.

National Park of American Samoa

Pest Invaders: The Fight to Stay Native
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The history of life on islands is a story of invasions. Ever since the high islands of American Samoa rose out of the sea as barren piles of volcanic rock, living things have been making the long and dangerous journey across the Pacific to reach this new land. Until a few thousand years ago, every plant, insect, and bird that lived on our islands was the descendant of a lucky adventurer that had crossed hundreds or thousands of miles of open ocean to establish a new colony here.

Lassen Volcanic National Park

Bumpass Hell - Exploration of an Active Hydrothermal Area
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

A view of the Bumpass Hell hydrothermal basin from the east.

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

Students prepare cookies the day before the activity. Students then compare and contrast different types of cookies and igneous rocks and classify them according to their structural make-up and ingredient composition.

Bering Land Bridge National Preserve

Virtual Tour of Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Welcome to Bering Land Bridge National Preserve! Join us from the comfort of your own classroom as we explore one of the nation’s most remote national park units. Learn about the rugged and wild landscape of the tundra and what it takes for plants and animals to survive in this challenging environment.

Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

Web of Life
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students learn about the complexity of life and interrelationships between living things by constructing a Craters food web.

Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

Journaling
  • Type: Field Trips ... Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The Student Journal is intended to focus the students' learning while they explore Craters of the Moon. It will help to reinforce the knowledge they have already gained through their classroom study of Craters geology, cultural history, and ecology. Upon returning to the school, the teacher can instruct the students to refer to their Journal notes for further Craters exploration.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

The Ever-Changing Landscape: Grade 4
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

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Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

Hulihia Kīlauea – a Complete Change part 3, post-visit classroom activities and assessment
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

These final classroom activities allow students to contemplate the risks involved in living in areas subject to natural disasters. They can investigate their local emergency response plans, learn from family or friends about natural disaster experiences, and synthesize what they have learned.

Mount Rainier National Park

Lahar in a Jar
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Explore how small amounts of water can mobilize loose rock to form lahars by making a small lahar within the safety of a beaker or jar and analyzing it using scientific methods.