Education

The National Park Service’s Teaching with Historic Places offers teaching tools and lesson plans to help educators engage young people with powerful stories representing America’s diverse history. Historic places in national parks and in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects.  

New Philadelphia: A Multiracial Town is a lesson plan developed by Teaching with Historic Places. In this lesson plan, students learn about Free Frank McWorter and how archeology can help tell the story of the racially diverse town he founded. A shorter hour history lesson was adapted from this lesson plan.

Teaching with Historic Places offers many other educational resources relating to historic places in the Midwest.