Providing free education materials for teachers, students, and lifelong learners, the National Park Service offers tools such as the Teaching with Historic Places program and the Teacher's Portal. The Teaching with Historic Places Program offers free, online lesson plans featuring places listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Featured Lesson Plans
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Colonel Young's Protest RideLearn about Colonel Charles Young was the highest-ranking African American Army officer in 1918.
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The Mary McLeod Bethune Council HouseLearn about Mary McLeod Bethune and how she promoted political and social change for African American women.
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The Mary Ann Shadd Cary HouseFollow the footsteps a free African American woman who defied an oppressive culture and broke barriers in education.
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- The White House and President's Park
Lafayette Park: First Amendment Rights on the President’s Doorstep
- Locations: The White House and President's Park
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
- Subject(s): Literacy and Language Arts,Social Studies
Learn how a group of determined women selected Lafayette Park, across from the White House, to demonstrate for their right to vote, providing a First Amendment model for many others.
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
- Subject(s): Social Studies
Learn about the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down "separate but equal".
- Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Discover Colonel Young's Protest Ride for Equality and Country: A Lightning Lesson from Teaching with Historic Places, featuring the historic Colonel Charles Young House
- Locations: Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
- Subject(s): Literacy and Language Arts,Social Studies
During WWI, African American Colonel Charles Young rode horseback for two weeks to protest discrimination in the U.S. Army.
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
- Subject(s): Social Studies
This lesson plan explores the Patent Office building, the site of President Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural ball.
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
- Subject(s): Social Studies
This lesson is based on the National Register of Historic Places registration files for Wye House, Nathan and Polly Johnson House (and photographs), and Frederick Douglass National Historic Site (and photographs), as well as other source materials on the life of Frederick Douglass.
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
- Subject(s): Literacy and Language Arts,Social Studies
Before the end of legal slavery in the United States, free African Americans migrated to Canada to find greater security and liberty. After the Civil War, some returned to the U.S. to aid emancipated people and rebuild the South. Mary Ann Shadd Cary was a business woman, abolitionist, and suffragist.
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
- Subject(s): Literacy and Language Arts,Social Studies
Follow Frederick Douglass on his journey from life as a slave to that of a respected statesman and investigate how three homes reflect the different phases of his life.
- Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park
The Building of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
- Locations: Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
- Subject(s): Literacy and Language Arts,Social Studies
Assess the importance of America's early canal system and its economic and social effects
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
- Subject(s): Literacy and Language Arts,Social Studies
Understand why George Washington was so revered during his lifetime and beyond, and learn why it took 100 years to complete this famous monument in his honor.
Last updated: August 4, 2020