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First State National Historical Park

Growing up in the 18th Century

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Discover what it was like to be a child in the 18th century. This field trip takes place around The Dover Green.

Frederica: An 18th-Century Planned Community

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

Discover why this British settlement was built and how it functioned as Great Britain and Spain each struggled to control land from Charleston to St. Augustine.

George Washington Carver National Monument

George Washington Carver - An Original Conservationist: Welcome to the 21st Century

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This activity will serve as the culmination to an ecological unit, especially those on current environmental problems. Students will take the role of George Washington Carver from 100 years ago. They will evaluate current ecological problems as if they were George Washington Carver. Their goal is to understand how the world has changed in the last century but also to recognize how solutions for today’s problems may have been around for decades and just need to be implemented.

Back Stairs at Brucemore: Life as Servants in Early 20th-Century America

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

Understand the "servant" experience in early 20th-century America, as well as the pros and cons for women working in factories versus domestic service.

Minuteman Missile National Historic Site

Minuteman Missile Field Trip - Class Size of 18 or less

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Minuteman Missile National Historic Site welcomes school groups for ranger-guided tours. Depending on group size, students may tour the visitor center, Launch Control Facility Delta-01 and/or the Delta-09 missile silo.

Digging into the Colonial Past: Archeology and the 16th-Century Spanish Settlements at Charlesfort-Santa Elena

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

Both France and Spain raced to settle and control the southern coast of North America. On a small island off the coast of present-day South Carolina lie the ruins of Charlesfort, the French outpost for a year, which later became Santa Elena, a Spanish colonial town from 1566 to 1587. The site has been abandoned now for more than 400 years.

Catoctin Mountain Park

The Blacksmith in Society: Lesson 1- Economic Incentives for Industrial Development

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

After comparing incentives offered to an 18th century blacksmith with incentives offered to modern corporations, students will understand how economic strategies are used to encourage industrial and community growth.

The Joseph Bellamy House: The Great Awakening in Puritan New England

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

Examine the influence of Reverend Joseph Bellamy, a leading preacher in New England from 1740-1790, in colonial American religion and learn about the role of religion in 18th-century life, as well as the resurgence of religious fervor known as the Great Awakening.

First State National Historical Park

Field Trips to Old Swedes Historic Site

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Travel back in time with your students as you discover what life was like in the early 18th century! Our partners at Old Swedes Historic Site will work with you to design a field trip that will best match the curriculum your students are learning today.

Fort Stanwix National Monument

Holiday Treasures On-Site Education Program

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will discover how the cultural diversity of the 18th century laid the foundation for our winter celebrations of today.A lively game at the start of the program reviews familiar holiday decorations and traditions followed by a tour of the fort to introduce students to the sights, smells, and sounds of the past.

Ninety Six National Historic Site

Lives of Backcountry Children Traveling Trunk

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

The Lives of Backcountry Children trunk is designed to enrich your students' studies of the daily life of frontier boys and girls in the 18th century. Along with a variety of artifacts the trunk also includes various lessons and activities. Just a few examples of lesions and activities included are Colonial Clothing, Colonial Children’s Chores, and Colonial Games and Music.

Fort Stanwix National Monument

A Day in the Life: A Virtual Fort Stanwix Field Trip

• Type: Distance Learning ... Field Trips ... Student Activities ... Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Join park volunteer Louisa on this virtual field trip of the fort. Learn more about the reasons why the fort was built, what a soldier's job was, and how their families helped support them. For teachers, there are critical thinking questions throughout for your class. Pause the video and have a discussion about the challenges of 18th Century life.

Thomas Stone National Historic Site

Families of the Past

• Type: Field Trips ... Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students step into the past as theybecome familiar with daily life in a Maryland home in the late 1700s and learnabout Thomas Stone as a husband, father, farmer, lawyer and signer of theDeclaration of Independence. Students will compare life in the 18th century totheir lives today. Students will enjoy interactive tours of the house, groundsand Visitor Center as well as hands-on activities.

Rifles vs Muskets in the Revolutionary War

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

The two main shoulder-fired weapons of the revolution are the musket and rifle. They both have their pros and cons in battle. Students will analyze and compare the parabolic shape of each weapon. They will try and determine which weapon they would wield.

Assateague Island National Seashore

Learning from Spanish Coins

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this lesson, students learn about 18th-century Spanish currency. Teachers can use the lesson plan to help their students investigate how archeologists use artifacts like coins to come up with a relative date for an archeological site. Students will understand how archeologists use newer technologies, such as 3D modeling and Virtual Reality, in order to analyze and interpret artifacts and objects.

Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail

The Biggest and Best Flag that Ever Flew

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Objectives: Students will be able to… describe the contributions of Mary Pickersgill to Maryland history. describe the goods and services available in early 19th Century Baltimore. analyze the interdependence of early 19th Century Baltimore.

Johnstown Flood National Memorial

Media Representations of the 1889 Johnstown Flood

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

For students to learn about media coverage at the time of the flood and the 19th century.

New Philadelphia: A Multiracial Town on the Illinois Frontier

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Who were the Americans that settled the United States' 19th century frontier?

Slavery in the American South

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

What was life and work like for enslaved people on Southern plantations?

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: A Moravian Settlement in Colonial America

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

Learn why Moravians immigrated to the New World and how the towns they established embodied their religious beliefs.