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Friendship Hill National Historic Site

Albert Gallatin for Homeschool and Self-guided Groups
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

These lessons were designed for homeschool or self-guided groups. The lessons are used in conjunction with background information on Albert Gallatin. The lessons can be used to prepare students for a visit to Gallatin’s home, Friendship Hill. There are two pre-visit activities, three on-site activities and three post-visit activities.

Friendship Hill National Historic Site

Albert Gallatin a Most Astonishing Man - Gallatin and the Louisiana Purchase - Lesson 3
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this lesson the students will use a student reading to learn about the Louisiana Purchase. Then using an activity sheet the students will write why the Louisiana Purchase would benefit the United States and how they would act if they were in the dilemma that the minister to France was in when he was offered the Louisiana Territory.

Friendship Hill National Historic Site

Albert Gallatin: A Most Astonishing Man - Gallatin as Secretary of the Treasury - Lesson 6
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Gallatin moved into the political spotlight when he became Secretary of the Treasury. Students will read about this part of Gallatin’s career. Then using an activity sheet the students will have to make some tough choices to develop the United States budget.

Friendship Hill National Historic Site

Albert Gallatin: A Most Astonishing Man - Gallatin and the Whiskey Rebellion - Lesson 2
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this lesson the students will use a student reading to learn about the Whiskey Rebellion and Gallatin’s participation in it. Then using an activity worksheet the students will look at the First Amendment and see if the actions the Western Pennsylvanians took during the rebellion were legal.

Friendship Hill National Historic Site

Albert Gallatin: A Most Astonishing Man - Gallatin and New Geneva - Lesson 5
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will use the student reading to learn about Gallatin’s business ventures. The activity work sheet has them identify reasons the businesses did not succeed. Then the students will work in groups to decide if Gallatin was a good businessman.

Friendship Hill National Historic Site

Albert Gallatin: A Most Astonishing Man - Gallatin’s Start in Politics - Lesson 1
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Albert Gallatin: A Most Astonishing Man is a teacher’s guide with seven lessons. In this first lesson students are introduced to Gallatin’s political beliefs through a student reading. The student activity has students match words to their definition.

Friendship Hill National Historic Site

Albert Gallatin: A Most Astonishing Man - Gallatin and the Lewis and Clark Expedition - Lesson 4
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this lesson the students will use a student reading to learn about the planning and eventual success of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Just like today, when you go on a trip you plan and pack. Meriwether Lewis planned and packed for the expedition. The activity sheet has the students match some of the supplies Lewis brought with what type of supplies they were. The students also write about how they think planning may have helped the expedition.

Friendship Hill National Historic Site

Albert Gallatin: A Most Astonishing Man - Gallatin's Family Life and Timeline - Lesson 7
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Gallatin was a happy family man and enjoyed being with his wife and children. The family got to experience many locations as Gallatin moved from one political assignment to another. Students will read about Gallatin’s family life and where the family lived in the student reading. Then using the dates in the reading, the students will make a Gallatin family life timeline.

Friendship Hill National Historic Site

Field Trip: Gallatin House Tour for School Groups
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Every age students can participate in guided house tours.The tours cover Gallatin's accomplishments, the Gallatin family and the history of Friendship Hill.

Andersonville National Historic Site

The martyrs who, for our country, gave up their lives in the prison pens in Andersonville, Ga
  • Type: Primary Sources
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Captain James M. Moore, assistant quartermaster United States army, led the expedition to Andersonville in the summer of 1865 which established the National Cemetery. This booklet includes his official report of the expedition and includes a listing of the dead buried at Andersonville.

Friendship Hill National Historic Site

Field Trip: Discovery Crate
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

In this guided activity park rangers pretend they have discovered a worn wooden crate in the attic of the old stone house. Inside they find items belonging to a one time resident of Friendship Hill, Albert Gallatin. Students become historians as they attempt to discover what the objects are and what they tell us about Gallatin and his family.

Friendship Hill National Historic Site

Field Trip: The Whiskey Rebellion
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The ranger will guide the students through a slideshow that asks multiple choice questions about how the students would have reacted during the whiskey rebellion. Using the answers the students will find out if they hold opinions that were held by the rebels, the moderates, and the federalists. Along the way they will learn about the events in this first test of federal power and how Albert Gallatin worked to find a solution.

Friendship Hill National Historic Site

Field Trip: Secretary of the Treasury Board Game
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This guided program has the student learn about the federal budget during Gallatin’s term as Secretary of the Treasury. They participate in a board game with the park ranger.

Andersonville National Historic Site

Contributions relating to the causation and prevention of disease, and to camp diseases; together with a report of the diseases, etc., among the prisoners at Andersonville, Ga
  • Type: Primary Sources
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This report by the non-governmental U.S Sanitary Commission is devoted to a series of medical issues pertaining to the Civil War. A third of the book is devoted to Andersonville, written by Confederate surgeon Joseph Jones, M.D. Portions of his essay are derived from the report he attempted to suppress at the end of the war.

Friendship Hill National Historic Site

The Whiskey Rebellion - A Political Opinion Survey
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Would you have been a rebel , a moderate or a federalist? Students are introduced to the Whiskey Rebellion before the park ranger will ask nine multiple choice questions. Each one of the three answers represents either the rebel, moderate or federalist opinion. So if you were a farmer would you have pay the Whiskey Tax? Choose A) Heck No, B) Well let’s protest, or C) Definitely YES! Find out where you would have stood during this first test of the federal government

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 7 Biography Cards
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This unit introduces the students to 14 people who were associated with the National Road through biography cards that are for the students to read. Over time people have remained the same, but society and technology have changed. These biography cards allow the students to find a human element in the National Road history. Each person on a biography card is associated with an occupation that is listed in the next section.

Friendship Hill National Historic Site

Self-guided Field Trip at Friendship Hill
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Visiting Friendship Hill is a great way for your students to learn history and about the natural world.

Liquid Rock
  • Type: Science Labs
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this science lab, students learn about the properties of lava by experimenting with liquids having varying gas contents and viscosities.

Olympic National Park

Overfishing and Fisheries Collapses
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This activity focuses on the recent collapse of marine fisheries across the world due to increased commercial fishing pressures, a result of increased technology coupled with the changing climate of marine environments related to greenhouse gas pollution.

Travel Back in Time
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will work to calculate time, distance, gas mileage from home to three important Southern Campaign of the American Revolution: Cowpens National Battlefield, Kings Mountain National Military Park, and Ninety Six National Historic Site.