Curriculum Materials

Future Civil War Major General and President Ulysses S. Grant, started developing his leadership skills as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Battle of Resaca de la Palma. Grant’s Memoirs, written 39 years after the battle, mentioned his experience in the battle. Students review a primary and secondary document about the Battle of Resaca de la Palma. The primary document is part of Grant’s Memoirs. The secondary document is a lithograph of the Battle. Afterwards, they answer questions about the documents.

Identify ways people memorialized the dead at the “Negros Buriel Ground” in colonial New York and ways people memorialized the African Burial Ground National Monument.

Students will explore Emma Lazarus’s poem and look at how this written piece has added to our understanding of the Statue of Liberty.

Stonewall was a galvanizing moment that empowered a range of advocacy. The book, “All are Welcome” by Alexandra Penfold and Suzanne Kaufman is a New York Times bestselling picture book about a school where diversity and inclusion are celebrated. With vividly detailed illustrations and a gently reassuring text, Penfold and Kaufman celebrate kindness, inclusivity, and diversity in a joyous read-aloud that is a must for every child’s bookshelf.

This is a lesson plan exploring how Theodore Roosevelt, despite childhood asthma and sickness grew up to influence so many others.

This lesson has students examine how childhood has a lasting impact throughout life.

This lesson will have students connect to Theodore Roosevelt through the universal concept of home, and childhood. They will compare and contrast their own lived reality with that of young Theodore Roosevelt.

This lesson plan will have students examine Theodore Roosevelt images, to explore how Theodore became a strong individual despite his childhood asthma.

The National Park Service invites you to our annual Evacuation Day Event, this year being held VIRTUALLY! Evacuation Day marked the final British evacuation from New York City in 1783, after seven years. Evacuation Day remained a city holiday into the 1930s and the occasion was often marked by parades and colorful ceremonies.

Students will perform a trash survey in their own neighborhood, then one at the beach at Gateway. After comparing the results of the two surveys, students will identify which trash is the most prevalent, and come up with ways to reduce the trash. Rangers will provide lesson plans and equipment for the beach pick up. Please note that this program requires transportation between two points within the park.