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Appomattox Court House National Historical Park

After Appomattox: Artifacts of Slavery and Freedom

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, ending the Civil War. Use this online activity to learn about the historical events and their impacts at this small village, especially for enslaved African Americans.

Appomattox Court House National Historical Park

Perspectives After the Surrender at Appomattox CH

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

This program will allow students to think about the different perspectives of those who lived through the Civil War, and how various viewpoints interpreted the events surrounding the Surrender Meeting at Appomattox. This program consists of several assignments designed to help students explore these differences through the stories of three people present at Appomattox Court House in 1865.

Gateway Arch National Park

ArtCH Camp Summer Camp

• Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Explore the Gateway Arch National Park like never before! Students will visit the Gateway Arch learn how to draw, paint, sculpt, and build with professional artists to create their own masterpieces.

Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area

The Atlanta Campaign

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

What happened during the Atlanta Campaign?

Appomattox Court House National Historical Park

Appomattox Court House - Teacher Packet for Grades 4 through 11

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

The Appomattox Court House teacher packet contains information about events during the end of the American Civil War

Gateway Arch National Park

ECO Rangers Summer Camp

• Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Explore what lives in our lakes, ponds, streams, forests, and prairie lands. Do the same macros live in the creeks and ponds? What birds and animals live in the prairie lands vs woodlands? Fish the lakes and rivers, fine tune your archery marksmanship, net for macros in ponds, and search for the birds in our Missouri’s public lands.

Gateway Arch National Park

Extreme Rangers Summer Camp

• Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Do you have what it takes to be an extreme Ranger? Put your outdoor adventure skills to the test finding your way by compass, build a shelter, make your own survival fishing pole and see if you can catch the big one. Paddle your way on float trip. Put all your skills together on an overnight camp out at one of our Missouri State parks.

Gateway Arch National Park

Rookie Rangers Summer Camp

• Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Rookie Rangers is an introduction to the adventures of the Outdoor Ranger Camps. Join us in Ranger adventures in hiking, water safety, fishing, archery, outdoor survival skills, and cave exploration.

Prince William Forest Park

Cabin Camp History Talk

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

Take a one to two hour tour of a historic cabin camp built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in Prince William Forest Park. Learn about the how the Great Depression and New Deal contributed to the creation of the park.

Andersonville: Prisoner of War Camp

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

Examine conditions of the Civil War's most notorious prison, and learn how inmates were able to cope.

"Comfortable Camps?" Archeology of the Confederate Guard Camp at the Florence Stockade (Teaching with Historic Places)

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

This lesson is based on the National Register of Historic Places documentation for “The Stockade” and “Florence National Cemetery,” part of the “Civil War Era National Cemeteries MPS;" and on archival and archeological research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Cemetery Administration (NCA), conducted by archeologists with MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Inc. (MACTEC).

Plan a Field Trip in the Southern Campaign

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

Students will be prompted to plan a field trip of the southern campaign. They will need to select four locations and research the who, what, when and where. They will need to plan some of the logistics like transportation and activities. Finally they will use the distance formula to estimate the distance of their trip.

Student as Researcher Camp (Multi-day)

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

“Students as Researchers” Camp gives students the opportunity to conduct their own scientific research over the course of a week at two different outdoor research sites.

Jimmy Carter National Historical Park

A Pathway to Peace – Negotiating the Camp David Accords

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

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, (left), U.S. President Jimmy Carter, (center), and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (right) clasp hands at the White House after signing the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel on March 26, 1979.

Jimmy Carter National Historical Park

A Pathway to Peace - Jimmy Carter and the Camp David Accords

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

These lessons utilize primary sources and background information to help students understand the complex process of resolving conflict. Students will analyze documents, photos, and political cartoons related to the Camp David Accords. They will learn how and why the U.S., Israel, and Egypt negotiated this historic peace agreement. They will also analyze the resulting agreement, understanding that every party doesn't get everything they want in a compromise.

Andersonville National Historic Site

Scraps from the prison table, at Camp Chase and Johnson's Island.

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

The account of a Confederate officer of captivity at Johnson's Island. Also contains material related to Wirz, including a letter from Louis Schade, one of Wirz's defense attornies.

Cane River Creole National Historical Park

Cartography: Map Making and Red River Campaign of 1864 Battle Plans

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

Learn about the Red River Campaign of 1864, and how maps contributed to the Civil War. Test your skills as a cartographer as you try to recreate the Battle of Maisfield through this map building activity.

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.

Everglades National Park

Everglades: Ranger guided field trips.

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

Learn more about either the day program, or residential camping field trip.

Wright Brothers National Memorial

Wright Brothers Scavenger Hunt

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

A view of the interior of the camp building where Orville and Wilbur stayed while in the Outer Banks.