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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.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Water Quality Monitoring - Middle School

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

Monocacy National Battlefield

Battle to Save Water Quality

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Evaluating farmlands that saved Washington, D.C. in the past and today’s management practices that save future water quality.

Buffalo National River

Water Quality and Buffalo River

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This lesson plan was designed to help students understand the importance of water quality as it relates to the Buffalo River.

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

Inventory + Monitoring Evaluations

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will get to view excavation sites that our paleontologists visit and do an easier version of what our paleontologists do here at the parks. They will virtually tour the excavation pit and 2 petrified stumps.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Tree Phenology Monitoring - High School Field Trip

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is using phenology, the study of biological events that change in response to their environment, to investigate the changing climate. This high school field trip packet includes onsite activities along with two preparation activities and two wrap-up activities.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Tree Phenology Monitoring - Middle School Field Trip

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

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is using phenology, the study of biological events that change in response to their environment, to investigate the changing climate. This middle school field trip packet includes onsite activities along with two preparation activities and two wrap-up activities.

Gateway Arch National Park

MO Outdoor Rangers

• Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Splash your way through a week of water fun. Paddle your way through our great Missouri waterways, build a creek dam and explore nature’s water creatures, and catch a big one fishing the shores of Missouri’s parks and public lands.

Hot Springs National Park

Protecting the Water

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

This program explores the ways that Hot Springs National Park protects the natural water cycle and harnesses the water for human use. Students will explore different challenges from habitat protection to engineering that the park faces in protecting the 143-degree thermal water for public use. Designed for 5th and 6th grade Earth Science and Engineering. Advanced programs may be used for High School programs.

Glacier National Park

The Work of Water

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

Students construct a river model. Then use a watering can or hose to observe the role water has in causing weathering, erosion, deposition and sculpting the landscape.

Wind Cave National Park

Is the Water Safe?

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

A brief student activity to help students realize that taste and smell aren't always good indicators of pollution.

Arches National Park

Water Cycle

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

Students hear a story and dance to a water cycle music video. While visiting a wetlands ecosystem they act out the process of erosion in different environments, and participate in a relay where they pretend to be agents of evaporation and precipitation. Students imagine they experience the water cycle first hand and write a poem about it. Afterwards, each student creates a regional drawing of the water cycle.

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park

What’s in the Water?

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Determine effects people have on the water in the environment and how to protect this necessary natural resource. Meets Kentucky 3rd-5th grade science standards. This lesson was created by Kentucky teachers as a part of the History and Science Explore Project.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

What's in the Water?

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Water quality is measured using many physical, chemical, and biological assessments. In this lesson, introduce your students to five water chemistry tests. Students will become familiar with pH, nitrates, phosphates, dissolved oxygen and turbidity and their relationship to the Cuyahoga River Watershed. They will begin to understand acceptable test value ranges, make connections between water quality and the biological community and become familiar with the causes of poor water quality.

Everglades National Park

"The Water Watch" Water: 4-6 Grade

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The student will be able to: a) list two reasons why water conservation is necessary for the preservation of the Everglades, b) list two ways in which they can increase community involvement in water conservation, and c) produce a petition which lists ways to conserve water and get at least one hundred signatures on their petition.

Everglades National Park

"Water Poetry" Water: 4-6 Grade

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will learn the importance of the water cycle to the Everglades watershed. They will also be able to describe ways in which they use and conserve water, after which they will write a poem about water.

Wind Cave National Park

Infiltrating the Water Cycle

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

Two demonstrations to introduce students to the water cycle and the idea of infiltration.

Hot Springs National Park

Turning Water into Medicine

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

This student-led exploration of historic Fordyce Bathhouse Museum and Visitor Center allows students to use historical sources to understand how the bathhouses influenced medical practices in the United States in the early 20th century. Designed for 4th grade social studies lessons.

Wind Cave National Park

Daily Water Use

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

And introduction to how much water your students use everyday.

Hot Springs National Park

A Journey of Rocks and Water

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

Students will create an understanding of the hydrogeological system of Hot Springs through observations of notable rock formations and examinations of the permeability of groundwater through certain rock types. Program designed for 7th grade and high school Earth Science courses.