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  • Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve

    Pathways to Discovery – Getting to Know a Tree

    • Type: Lesson Plan
    • Grade Level: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
    • Subjects: Science

    Use America's largest national park as a pathway to discovery! This lesson helps to familiarize students with the structure, function and importance of trees, and to develop identification skills.

  • Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve

    Forest Exploration

    • Type: Lesson Plan
    • Grade Level: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
    • Subjects: Science
    forested mountainside

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

  • Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve

    Creature Meeting

    • Type: Lesson Plan
    • Grade Level: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
    • Subjects: Science
    a marmot

    Use America's largest national park as a pathway to discovery! In this lesson, students observe creatures closely to learn how they use their surroundings.

  • Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve

    Pathways to Discovery - Model Habitat

    • Type: Lesson Plan
    • Grade Level: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
    • Subjects: Science
    Wolf in a dry-looking field

    Use America's largest national park as a pathway to discovery!

  • Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve

    Pathways to Discovery – Muir’s Trees and Writing Activity

    • Type: Lesson Plan
    • Grade Level: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
    • Subjects: Science,Social Studies

    Use America's largest national park as a pathway to discovery! In this lesson, students take part in a writing activity which allows them to reflect on some of their thoughts about trees.

  • Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve

    Forest Life: The Basics

    • Type: Student Activities
    • Grade Level: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
    • Subjects: Science
    Mother moose with her young

    In this classroom activity, students will learn the basics of animals survival in the forest.

  • Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve

    Pathways to Discovery – Field Exploration

    • Type: Lesson Plan
    • Grade Level: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
    • Subjects: Science

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

  • Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve

    Wetlands Exploration

    • Type: Field Trips
    • Grade Level: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
    • Subjects: Science
    lake surrounded by spruce trees, hill in the distance

    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.

  • Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve

    Bat and Moth

    • Type: Lesson Plan
    • Grade Level: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
    • Subjects: Science
    large group of brown bats hanging from a cave ceiling

    Use America's largest national park as a pathway to discovery! In this lesson, students learn about the bat’s “niche” in an ecosystem by playing the part of these little critters.

  • Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve

    Basics of Habitat

    • Type: Lesson Plan
    • Grade Level: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
    • Subjects: Science
    a great horned owl in a spruce bough

    Use America's largest national park as a pathway to discovery! In this lesson, students think about essential survival needs

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