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Colonial Games
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
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Kids in Colonial Times
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

The New Deal reform, recovery, and relief programs changed the relationship between American’s and their government in revolutionary ways. The Resettlement Administration (RA), Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), and the Farm Security Administration (FSA) were programs to get displaced families off relief. More than eighty years after the Matanuska Colony was established much of it remains to tell the story of the New Deal resettlement program in Alaska.
Colonial Correspondence Material
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Are you teaching your students to identify cultural contributions and perspectives? Are you looking for an opportunity to share how the age of exploration and European colonialism influenced early America? Invite Park Rangers from Castillo de San Marcos and Fort Matanzas into your classroom through live video conferencing!
Then and Now (Colonial Comparison Student Activity)
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Using replicas of common items, students try to identify the objects and determine the purpose.
Colonial Games 2nd and 3rd Grade
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
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- 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.
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?
America Attacked
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

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
Attack on America
American Symbols
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
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Symbols of America
- Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Weir Am I? (Grades 1-4)
Who Am I? (A lesson on animals and their habitats)
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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.
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).
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?