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Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Transportation

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

For the Hidatsa, transportation provided a means of moving from place to place as necessary, and a way to gather the resources needed for trade and community well-being.

Innovation in Transportation

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

In this lesson, students will create a timeline showing Rhode Island’s changes in transportation over time.

Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Transportation and the Manhattan Project at Hanford, Washington

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Lesson Plan: Students learn about transportation methods used during the Manhattan Project to move materials around the globe and through the Hanford Site.

Allegheny Portage Railroad: Developing Transportation Technology

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

Follow 19th-century travelers as they cross the treacherous Allegheny Mountains using an innovative inclined railway.

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.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 3 Travelers and Transportation on the National Road

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

This unit covers travelers and transportation on the National Road, teaching the students what types of vehicles traveled the road and what it was like to travel. It includes background information for the teacher, two student reading and two student activities: Stagecoach and Conestoga Wagon Coloring Sheet and Traveler’s Tools. One of the student readings is a journal of an emigrant family.

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.

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?

Navesink Lighthouse and Robbins Reef Lighthouse: Lighting the Way Through New York Bay

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

The lesson could be used in U.S. history, social studies, and geography courses in units on nineteenth century and early twentieth century commerce or transportation, and to help students understand the role that maritime industries played in American history. The lesson could also be used to enhance studies related to the industrial revolution and women’s history.

Martin Van Buren's "Return to the Soil"

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

Follow this president to the White House and Lindenwald in the rough-and-tumble world of early 19th century politics.

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.

Andrew Johnson National Historic Site

Calling Andrew Johnson using Morse Code

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

The students will analyze the impact of the transatlantic telegraph on worldwide communications. The students will compare and contrast current technology to that of the 19th century.

Keweenaw National Historical Park

Commercial and Non-Industrial Occupations Post-Visit 2: Research Careers of Entrepreneurs

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

Students will be able to describe at least one entrepreneur or businessman/woman from the local area in the 19th and 20th century.

Women's Rights National Historical Park

Opening the Gates to Change: the Erie Canal and Woman’s Suffrage

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

In this lesson from the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor, students will analyze the impacts of the Erie Canal on development of 19th century social reform movements, particularly women’s rights. Students will examine historic examples of groups who struggled for equality and will compare past movements to contemporary issues. Students will consider their own capacities as change-makers.

Minuteman Missile National Historic Site

Minuteman Missile Field Trip - Class sizes of 19 students or more

• 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 and/or the Delta-09 missile silo.

"The Great Chief Justice" at Home

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

Meet John Marshall, who led the U.S. Supreme Court from obscurity and weakness to prominence and power in the early 19th century.