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Cape Lookout National Seashore

Horses and Humans: Shackleford Horses Unit

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

This science & math unit features the wild horses of Shackleford Banks. See attached complete unit.

Cape Lookout National Seashore

Horse Genetics and Evolution: Shackleford Horses Unit

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

This lesson plan will cover 6th-8th grade genetics and evolution relating everything back to the horses on Shackleford Banks, NC. The students will be able to construct arguments based on evidence that organisms and landforms change over time and recognize patterns of heredity from Punnett Squares and Pedigree Analysis.

Assateague Island National Seashore

3rd Grade| Horse Genetics: Build an Assateague Horse!

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Assateague is known for its wild horses, but do all horses look the same? Student's decode a DNA "recipe" for their own Assateague horse to see firsthand how variations in DNA lead to the inheritance of different traits. Program length: 45 minutes NGSS 3-LS3-1

Assateague Island National Seashore

Horse Teeth and Diet

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

In this lesson plan, students will use the scientific method to learn about horses' diets from 3d replicas of horse teeth found on Assateague Island. The 3d replicas are viewable online, or the files may be downloaded and 3d printed. In the process, students will learn an archeological method for learning about animals' lives in the past.

Cape Lookout National Seashore

Past, Present, and Future: Shackleford Horses Unit

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

Lesson plan activities designed to be used over 8 class periods, each activity will need 60 minutes. This lesson plan will cover 6th-8th grade social studies relating everything back to the horse on Shackleford Banks, NC. This lesson plan has several activities to get students discussing and creating maps, charts, graphs, and historical narratives that explain historic events.

Glacier National Park

Surviving in the Wild

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students role play a day in the life of a pet animal and then sort pictures of a variety of animals into “wild” or “domestic” categories with the option of making collages of each category. They will think about how “wild” animals are different from domestic animals and why wild animals need “wild” places to live.

Glacier National Park

Who's Wild?

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students learn the differences between wildlife and domesticated animals.

Glacier National Park

What Is Wild?

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students participate in a guided imagery exercise and take a trip to an imaginary “wild” place.

Grand Teton National Park

What is Wild

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

The lesson allows students to think about and discuss their role and the importance of protecting habitats for different types of organisms.

Acadia National Park

Are You Wild?

• Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will be able to distinguish between wild and domestic animals.

Fort Scott National Historic Site

Democracy Run Wild: Distance Learning Program

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

During Bleeding Kansas, conflicts at the ballot box, in the courts, and in the halls of government divided a town, a territory and an entire nation as people from all sides of the spectrum joined in a struggle for freedom in Kansas Territory.

Wild vs Domestic- All About Animals

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

Explore the outdoors and learn all about animals at Oxon Hill Farm. This field trip takes advantage of the 500 acres of natural landscape at Oxon Cove Park. Designed for K-5.

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha: "Hatcheries - Saviors or Scourge for Wild Salmon?"

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

This activity helps students understand the history and roles that hatcheries serve in sustaining commercial fisheries, native fish populations, and saving endangered fish stocks. They will also do their own research on the pros and cons of hatcheries.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

"Wild About Animals" Virtual Program - Pre-K to Grade 2

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Wild About Animals introduces students to animals that live in Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Through games, a story, and skulls and pelts students will learn about these animals and discover the adaptations that help them survive in their habitats. Learn more about the program and how to sign up.

Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site

Horsin' Around: Online Pre-visit Activity

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

Through this online pre-visit activity, students will learn about different breeds of horses. Then they will create a PowerPoint presentation that provides information about a breed of horse. The class will then take a field trip to the Grant-Kohrs Ranch NHS or other type of ranch to interact with and see different breeds of horses.

Some Parts Make Better Fossils than Others

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

Students will choose the hair or skin coloration of a horse and Stegosaurus.

Glacier National Park

Goldilocks and the Real Bears

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Compare the wild bears that live in Glacier to the bears in the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Juan's Draft Pick Lesson Plan

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

Whether by pulling a wagon, cart, or saddle bag, animals powered the goods to be traded and transferred to their destination. The fur trade era simply could not have taken place without the aid of horses, mules, and oxen. The lesson examines the pros and cons of using these animals as transportation based on their characteristics and biological needs.

Everglades National Park

"Where Have You Gone?" Environment: 4-6 Grade

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

Students will be able to: a) discuss some of the problems that wild animals and plants face from humans, b) list examples of how personal feelings and beliefs can affect situations involving wild organisms, and c) make decisions about a value-related plant/animal issue.

Denali National Park & Preserve

Denali's Dinosaurs

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Denali was created to protect wild animals, but it also protects some of the most expansive and significant dinosaur trackways in the world. During this Distance Learning program, students travel back in time with a ranger to learn about how the predator-prey interactions of Denali’s dinosaurs mirror those of wild animals in Denali today.