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

How are functions calculated, used, and expressed in real world mathematical situations?

Saratoga National Historical Park

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

This Math/Social Studies worksheet can be used to help students learn about the three basic organizational levels of an army during the American Revolution. Students will calculate the number of soldiers one may have seen in a Revolutionary War army, and develop an appreciation for the vast numbers of soldiers needed to help secure American independence.

Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve

Create a Coat of Arms
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Students will be able to create and label their own coat of arms using the descriptions and symbols provided in the activity sheets.

Kings Mountain National Military Park

African Americans in the American Revolution
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

*What were duties and responsibilities of African-American soldiers in the American Revolution? *How did African Americans make significant contributions during the American Revolution?

Flight 93 National Memorial

America Attacked
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
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Program Objectives: Students will be able to: 1. Name three terrorist and their role in the September 11, 2001, attack 2. List two events leading up to the attacks on September 11 that had an impact on national security 3. Name the four targets and potential targets selected by the terrorist on September 11

Flight 93 National Memorial

Attack on America
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
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Students visit the Memorial Plaza and learn of the events of September 11, 2001

Cowpens National Battlefield

American Symbols
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

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Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Symbols of America
  • Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
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Students will learn what a symbol is and why symbols are used. They will learn symbols of both America and of South Dakota, as well as the significance behind these symbols.

Weir Farm National Historical Park

Weir Am I? (Grades 1-4)
  • Type: Other Education Materials
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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A variety of classroom activities that can be done as stand-alone lessons or as a Pre-Visit/ Post-Visit lessons with a visit to Weir Farm.

Yellowstone National Park

Who Am I? (A lesson on animals and their habitats)
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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Each student researches an animal that inhabits Yellowstone National Park and prepares an Animal Profile Card with ten facts about each animal. Students share Profile Cards and attempt to identify the unidentified animals.

“Tracking” Down the Secret Code / North American Animal “Who am I”
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
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This lesson will present the diversity of animals found along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, and will help students understand what we can learn about animals from the way they live and move.

Gettysburg National Military Park

Join the Army: The Life of a Civil War Soldier
  • Type: Field Trips ... Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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The Civil War soldier’s life was full of hardships, sacrifices, and challenges. This student education program offers a ninety-minute long hands-on program especially for school-age children in Grades 3-6 that will encourage further study of American history and the Civil War.

Kings Mountain National Military Park

Women in the American Revolution
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Women had an important role in the Revolution. Complete this student activity to learn more.

Kings Mountain National Military Park

Loyalists in American Revolution
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

John Adams wrote that approximately one-third of the American population supported the move for independence (Patriots), one-third of the population supported the king (Loyalists), and one-third supported neither side (neutral).

Cowpens National Battlefield

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

Who were the Catawba and Cherokee peoples in the Revolutionary Era Carolinas?

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?

Ninety Six National Historic Site

American Revolution Soldier
  • Type: Traveling Trunk
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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The American Revolution Soldier trunk is designed to enrich your students' studies of the American Revolution and its causes.

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

Native American Reservations
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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In "Native American Reservations," students will look at Native American Reservations. The Homesteaders, Immigrants, and Native Americans unit is broken up into six lesson plans, taking 45-120 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 4 of the unit.

Roger Williams National Memorial

A Key Into the Language Of America
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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This lesson plan introduces students to "A Key into the Language of America" and provides a glimpse into the complex relationship Williams had with the Narragansett and gives a first-hand account of 17th-century native culture. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to answer the question: How did Roger Williams’ A Key into the Language of America foster understanding of daily life, work, and relationships between the Native Americans and colonists?