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Acadia National Park

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

To engage students in the process of data analysis, looking at maps of migration patterns to identify which birds migrate through the area and which do not.

Glacier National Park

Hibernation-Migration Fascination
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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A comparison of two different types of hibernation – those of bears and marmots. A comparison of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park east side lowland grizzlies and highland grizzlies.

Acadia National Park

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

Students will be able to identify the challenges birds face during migration by playing a game where each student is assigned a bird during migration.

Acadia National Park

Canada Goose Migration
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Many bird populations migrate, and the most common pattern involves flying north in the spring to breed in the temperate or Arctic summer, then returning in the fall to wintering grounds in warmer regions to the south. The longer days of the northern summer provide greater opportunities for breeding birds to feed their young. Many northern-breeding ducks, geese, and swans also are migrants, but need only to move from their northern breeding grounds far enough south to escape frozen waters.

Acadia National Park

Migration Friendly School
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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To engage students in identifying positive and negative factors affecting bird migration. Students will also create an action plan to address any negative factors present on the school campus

Acadia National Park

Migration for Lower Elementary
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
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Explore the topic of migration by examining some of the migrating animals that travel through Acadia. These lessons are designed to take students grades K-2 outside.

Acadia National Park

Hummingbird Migration K-2
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
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This lesson is primarily an information – and exercise lesson. Students will read the Going Home book outside with the teacher, to get background on migrating animals. The students will then play a “Simon Says” – type game to imitate the movements of these migrating animals. There is potential for extension throughout the school year for this activity, by completing the activities at the end of this lesson.

Acadia National Park

K-2: Monarch Migration
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
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Students and teacher will read a book about the milkweed plant and monarch butterflies. A local Master Gardener will show students how to plant the seeds and what the growing process will look like. Students will learn about the second phase of this project, to commence in the spring. Students will search for good nectar plants on school grounds.

Acadia National Park

The Great Fish Migration (7th Grade)
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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The Great Fish Migration is a 4 hour program that partners with the MDI Historical Society and the Somes Meynell Wildlife Refuge to bring a historic and scientific picture of the fishing history of Somesville and the revitalization of the local Alewife population.

Gateway National Recreation Area

Investigating Bird Migration and Climate Change
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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What makes Jamaica Bay such an important place for birds during migration? How will climate change impact the refuge? How can we maintain the refuge for generations to come?

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site

North American Indian Migration into North Dakota
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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This lesson plan compares and contrasts the Great Plains and the Central Lowlands, identifying different tribes territories on maps, and explaining the ways the climate regions influenced Upper Missouri Plains Indian culture in North Dakota.

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site

North American Indian Migration into North Dakota
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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In this lesson, students will compare and contrast the Great Plains and the Central Lowlands. Then, students will identify different tribal territories on maps. By the end of the lesson, students will answer the following essential question: How did the different climate regions of North Dakota influence Indian cultures in those regions?

Kings Mountain National Military Park

Women in the American Revolution
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Women had an important role in the Revolution. Complete this student activity to learn more.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Subsistence: Women’s Influence
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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Students will learn how women shaped the lives and livelihoods of the tribes living at Knife River Indian Villages through agricultural practices and trade by reading and discussion, graphic organization utilizing the KWL (Know/Want to Know/Learned) model and through experiential learning.

Fort Larned National Historic Site

Women of the Military Frontier
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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Men weren't the only people at frontier military posts - women lived at these forts as well. Find out who they were and how they spent their days.

Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Women and the Manhattan Project
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Lesson Plan: Students explore the roles of women during the Manhattan Project at Hanford, Los Alamos, and Oak Ridge.

Women's Rights National Historical Park

Be a Women's Rights Influencer
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
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Students will research women’s rights and reform advocates from the nineteenth century. Students will choose one activist and act as their social media manager. Students will create a social media plan for the platform of their choice and highlight their reformer’s story.

Antietam National Battlefield

Women in the Civil War
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
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This lesson plan can be used to help your students explore some of the important roles that women had during the Civil War.

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

Why People Move: Human Migration (Grades 3-5) Lesson 1 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Using examples from North Carolina's own migration history this lesson helps upper elementary students to understand the different types of human migration. Examples range from antebellum mountain summer homes to post-Civil War African American history. Western North Carolina has a long history of human migration in many forms. This lesson is a fun introduction to migration vocabulary with interactive activities to encourage critical thinking and the use of context clues by students.

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

The Lost Cause: Colonization, Chattel Slavery, and Migration (Grades 9-12) Lesson 1 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
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This lesson addresses the migratory history of western North Carolina and the myths about the region. Migration from the South Carolina Lowlands to the mountains of western North Carolina created many racial, economic and spiritual changes for everyone in the region. Wealth brought new development along with increased hierarchical discrimination and social practices. As many summer homes were built there were far more enslaved and free laborers who made the migration possibl