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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.
- 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.
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.
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.