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Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve

Wetlands Exploration

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

Use America's largest national park as a pathway to discovery! In this lesson, students discover, observe and learn about the types of small creatures that live in a wetlands habitat.

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

"We Proceeded On..."

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

Students will learn about maps and what information can be gathered from them through the use of maps of the lower Columbia River. Using math and timing their own walking speeds students will be able to determine how long it would take to drive from one location to Fort Clatsop, walk to Fort Clatsop, and how much that would cost.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Wetlands: Teacher Resources

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Materials for educators who teach about wetlands or associated wildlife.

Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park

We Want You!

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

At the start of the U.S.-Mexican War, both Mexican and U.S. citizens mistrusted a standing army. In this activity, students discuss reasons for joining an army. Next, they discuss the differences between a regular army and a militia of volunteers. Then they review and discuss U.S. and Mexican perspectives on regular and volunteer soldiers.

Theodore Roosevelt Island

Wings Over Woodlands and Wetlands

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

Wings Over Woods and Wetlands is a two and a half hour program that gives students a chance to explore a variety of topics pertaining to the lives of birds and their use of Theodore Roosevelt Island. The island provides an ideal setting for examining such concepts as migration, adaptations and habitat. Over the course of a year it is frequented by nearly 200 bird species. This program also familiarizes students with Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States.

Zion National Park

The Forests, Wetlands, and Deserts of Zion

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This distance learning program focuses on the plants and animals that live in Zion’s varying ecosystems. Students will learn about their adaptations and relationships to each other in this interactive lesson with a creative and critical thinking activity. (45 minutes)

Fort Scott National Historic Site

We The People: Life at A Frontier Fort

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

We the People explores the many roles present in the community of people who called Fort Scott and the surrounding area home in the 1840s.

Fort Scott National Historic Site

We the People: Challenges of Life at a Frontier Fort

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

Students will be able to write an imaginary letter describing what life was like at a frontier fort in the 1840’s.

The Battle of Bunker Hill: Now We Are at War

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

Learn how this American Revolution battle spurred colonial unity and sparked the formation of the Continental Army. What were the motivations and consequences of the Battle of Bunker Hill?

Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area

What Happens to the Water When We Brush and Flush?

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

Water from homes and businesses enters sewers or septic tanks through pipes. This wastewater is kept with other dirty water because it is unhealthy and must be kept away from our drinking water. This sewer water is sent to a water treatment plant where the unhealthy parts are removed. The water is then returned to the river sometimes cleaner than it was originally. This lesson raises real world concerns, guiding students to become better stewards of our environment.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Wetland Ecosystems Virtual Program - Grades 3-5

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This program explores the concept of an ecosystem by focusing on wetlands in the national park. Students will learn about the living and non-living components of wetlands, and how energy passes through local wetland food webs.

Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail

We Have a Story to Tell: Native Peoples of the Chesapeake Region

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This lesson primarily covers the period from the early 1600s to the present. Students explore how colonial settlement and the establishment of the United States affected the Native Americans of the Chesapeake region, especially the Powhatan, Nanticoke, and Piscataway peoples. Students will learn about the forces that resulted in the eradication of some tribes and how others survived.

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

Consider the Source: The Stories We Tell and The History We Know (Grade 6 -8) Lesson 3 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS     

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

This is the 3rd of 3 lessons designed to contribute to middle school student's working knowledge of Black history in Western North Carolina (W.N.C.) and to give them the skills to identify common myths of the region as well. This lesson introduces critical thinking concepts such as anachronisms and explores myths and deferred histories from W.N.C. This lesson is intended to exercise historical thinking skills and encourage the dialogue studied in previous lessons.

Salem Maritime National Historic Site

What can we learn about the lives of enslaved people from primary sources?

• Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students examine primary and secondary sources, including two short films, to explore the life of an enslaved woman in Salem. The essential question asks students to consider what we can learn about the history of slavery from primary sources.

Fort Stanwix National Monument

Archeology at Fort Stanwix, On-Site Education Program

• Type: Field Trips ... Field Schools & Institutes
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

What can we learn from the trash and lost objects of the past? “Dig in” to the stories of the past as we prepare objects for the future!

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

Consider the Source: The Words We Mean: An Exercise and Study on Euphemisms, Language, and Dialogue about Chattel Slavery in Western North Carolina and the United States (Grades 6-8) Lesson 1 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS

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

This is the 1st of 3 lessons designed to contribute to middle school student's working knowledge of Black history in Western North Carolina. This lesson introduces students to the language of Black history and its relevance to their own dialogues and historical skills. With multiple interactive opportunities, and historical and artistic sources, students will develop language arts and critical thinking skills. 

Hopewell Culture National Historical Park

Today and Yesterday: Comparing Cultures

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

In this lesson we will compare some of the tools that the Hopewell used to satisfy their basic human needs to the ones we use for our needs today. We will talk briefly about why the tools in past might serve the same function as present day tools but are made from different materials. In the end we will learn that people in the past were not too different than we are now they had the same basic needs in life but were living in a different time and environment.

Everglades National Park

"We're Sponging Off the Everglades" Water: 4-6 Grade

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

Students will learn about the interconnections between our actions and the water we receive and use straight from the aquifer that lays beneath the Everglades. Prepare to get wet !

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument

Agate Fossil Beds Native American Collection

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Join our Education Rangers as we take a tour of the James Cook Collection of Native American artifacts, we will look inside “A window onto Lakota life” here on the Great Plains. We will also explore how the Bison was sacred to the Lakota and we will learn how the animal played an integral part of their daily lives. And talk about the friendship formed between Chief Red Cloud and a local rancher named James Cook.

Acadia National Park

Virtual: Grades 3-12: Owls, Natures Nighttime Predators

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Explore the unique and amazing adaptations of owls as we learn about their natural history!  We'll focus on species that call Acadia home as we delve into the world of these incredible nocturnal birds. (45 minutes)