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Homestead National Historical Park

The Legacy of the Homestead Act

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In "The Legacy of the Homestead Act," students will identify aspects of text that reveal an author's point of view and produce their own presidential speech about the Homestead Act.

Santa Fe National Historic Trail

Santafetrail.org Activities and Lessons

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

The Santa Fe Trail Association, the official partner of the Santa Fe National Historic Trail, offers a plethora of activities and packets for grades K-8. This site also offers a number of additional resources, including an interactive trail map with detailed explanations of each stop on the trail. Resources could easily be adapted to fit any curriculum!

Acadia National Park

Migration Threats Activity

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will be able to identify the challenges birds face during migration by playing a game where each student is assigned a bird during migration.

Acadia National Park

"Historic" Journal Activity

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students are able to explore life in an 1800’s homestead. They will write narratives to explain their understanding of life at an 1800’s homestead.

Acadia National Park

Leaf Rubbing Activity

• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students can find three different leaves, use them to do a leaf rubbing and then use vocabulary words to describe the leaves.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Early American Activities

• Type: Science Labs
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

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Homestead National Historical Park

Homestead Act Paperwork

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

In "Homestead Act Paperwork," students analyze primary sources to discover the sequence of forms involved in claiming land under the Homestead Act. The Homestead Act and President Lincoln unit is broken up into five lesson plans, taking 45-50 minutes to complete, targeting sixth through eighth grade students. A class does not have to complete every lesson in the unit - each lesson comes with its own set of objectives and resources. This is lesson 2 of the unit.

Women's Rights National Historical Park

Be a Women's Rights Influencer

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

Students will research women’s rights and reform advocates from the nineteenth century. Students will choose one activist and act as their social media manager. Students will create a social media plan for the platform of their choice and highlight their reformer’s story.

Women's Rights National Historical Park

Be a Women's Rights Influencer- Middle School Level

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

Students will research women’s rights and reform advocates from the nineteenth century. Students will choose one activist and act as their social media manager. Students will create a social media plan for the platform of their choice and highlight their reformer’s story.

Homestead National Historical Park

The Homestead Act of 1862 (TT)

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The trunk includes curriculum materials, books, documents, case files and a DVD that can be integrated into history, social studies, reading, and language arts curriculum. Additionally, the curriculum materials include student station sheets, so students can rotate stations without the teacher having to repeat instructions.

First State National Historical Park

A Balancing Act: Delaware and the Constitution

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will participate in and understand the legislative process through participating in an interactive program at The Old State House based on the process of passing a law though the branches of government. This program takes place around The Dover Green.

Homestead National Historical Park

Learning about the Homestead Act

• Type: Primary Sources
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In "Learning about the Homestead Act," students utilize a written document analysis worksheet to practice the skill of analyzing primary sources (The Homestead Act).

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve

French and Indian War Activity

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

Representing the competing interests of the European nations on a global scale, set in the North American contenient. These battles ultimately shaped political and cultural divisions across the world, especially here in Louisiana that are still felt today!

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

Activities for Home - Dark Skies

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

Night Sky over Kīlauea Caldera NPS Photo/Janice Wei

Statue Of Liberty National Monument

Be A Gumshoe: Self-Guided Activity

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

Children's activity program at Statue of Liberty NM. 3rd grade through 5th Grade.

Acadia National Park

"Eastings and Northings" A Mapping Activity

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The lesson builds up slowly to read Map Grid References for later learning and practice orienteering. Orienteering is a navigation and sport activity that incorporates walking or jogging, determining directions, and map reading. The object of the activity is to use a map and compass to locate specific points in each area.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Revolutionary War Timeline Activity

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will construct an accurate timeline of ten Revolutionary War battles.

Saratoga National Historical Park

The Crucial Hour: Mapping Activity

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This activity is intended to be a simple exercise in analyzing and understanding how geography influenced decision making by both American and British armies in the Battles of Saratoga. It was originally planned for class use while visiting the battlefield, but it could also be used pre-visit in conjunction with the Saratoga National Historical Park virtual tour, or as a stand-alone activity.

Water Hunt Maze Activity

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this activity, students will play a maze game to help them understand how water was collected in the past and the different methods of water collection. In addition to the activity materials provided, students will need access to two six-sided dice.

Glacier National Park

Snow Characteristics Lab Activity

• Type: Science Labs
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this science lab activity, students take temperatures at different depths in the snow and compare them to the air temperature. They will discover the insulating effect of snow and understand that temperature varies according to snow depth.