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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.

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

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.

Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve

Create a Coat of Arms

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

Students will be able to create and label their own coat of arms using the descriptions and symbols provided in the activity sheets.

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

Breaking into the Army Nurse Corps: How Black Nurses Demanded to Serve

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Adult Education

How did African American women break into the Army Nurse Corps? The nurses of the Army Nurse Corps were an essential part of the war effort. The African American nurses fought to serve their country and to be there for the Black soldiers they treated. Though hurdles were laid in their way, these women succeeded in enlisting in the Army. Many Black nurses went on to serve around the world and perform ground-breaking research.

Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park

We Want You!

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

At the start of the U.S.-Mexican War, both Mexican and U.S. citizens mistrusted a standing army. In this activity, students discuss reasons for joining an army. Next, they discuss the differences between a regular army and a militia of volunteers. Then they review and discuss U.S. and Mexican perspectives on regular and volunteer soldiers.

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

What is a Buffalo Soldier to Wear?

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

Army regulations determine what soldiers can wear. Between 1866 and 1902, the Buffalo Soldiers experienced a variety of climates as they were stationed out west and abroad. How did Army regulations adapt their uniform policies based on the experiences of the Army, including of the Buffalo Soldiers? Students will take on the role of the Generals in the Army in charge of military uniforms. They will help decide what changes, if any, are needed to the Buffalo Soldiers uniforms.

Valley Forge National Historical Park

Valley Forge: By the Numbers

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

The Continental Army marches into Valley Forge on December 19, 1777.

Fort Larned National Historic Site

I Heard a Coyote Howl

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

Share the tragedy of a young Indian boy whose home will be destroyed by the US Army.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Events That Led up to the Revolutionary War

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

How did a tax on sugar, stamps and quartering the British army led to a Revolutionary War?

Fort Larned National Historic Site

A Day in the Life of a Frontier Soldier

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

Find out what it takes to be a soldier in frontier army. And visit the barracks where soldiers at Fort Larned lived.

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

Discover Colonel Young's Protest Ride for Equality and Country: A Lightning Lesson from Teaching with Historic Places, featuring the historic Colonel Charles Young House

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

During WWI, African American Colonel Charles Young rode horseback for two weeks to protest discrimination in the U.S. Army.

Valley Forge National Historical Park

The March In

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

In this lesson, students will examine secondary source documents and utilize map skills to understand the reasons why Valley Forge was chosen as the site for the Continental Army's winter encampment in 1777. Students will then be able to answer the following essential question: Why did General George Washington choose Valley Forge as the site for the Army’s winter encampment?

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

Buffalo Soldiers: A Nickname

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Adult Education

On July 28, 1866, Congress passed the Army Reorganization Act, which established six new all-Black regiments. As they were sent West, a nickname arose for these all-Black regiments. That nickname was “Buffalo Soldiers”. Though the nickname has unknown origins, it has grown to symbolize and honor those who served in the all-Black Army regiments.

Fort Stanwix National Monument

Life at Fort Stanwix

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

What was life like at the historic Fort Stanwix for a soldier in the Continental Army and the many others who lived there while fighting in the American Revolution. At the end of this virtual tour, students will be able to describe the different roles that were filled to support the Continental Army at Fort Stanwix during the American Revolution and what would have happened had they not worked together.

The Battle of Bunker Hill: Now We Are at War

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

Learn how this American Revolution battle spurred colonial unity and sparked the formation of the Continental Army. What were the motivations and consequences of the Battle of Bunker Hill?

Theodore Roosevelt Island

Mr. Lincoln's Soldiers

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

Mr. Lincoln's Soldiers is a two and a half hour program that gives students hands-on experience exploring life as a Union army recruit at Camp Greene, which was located on Theodore Roosevelt Island during the Civil War. The island provides an ideal setting for examining such concepts as the abolition of slavery, the experience of African American soldiers in the Civil War, and the effects that serving in the Union Army had on soldiers.

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

The Life and Legacy of Brigadier General Charles Young

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Adult Education

Brigadier General Charles Young led an extraordinary life of firsts. He was the first African American national park superintendent, the first African American Colonel in the U.S. Army and the first African American military attaché. Besides these personal achievements Young was also a mentor to many including students at Wilberforce University and future generations of Army officers including Benjamin O. Davis Sr.

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

What is a Buffalo Soldier to Wear?

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

Students will take on the role of the Generals in the Army in charge of military uniforms. They will help decide what changes, if any, are needed to the Buffalo Soldiers uniforms as they are stationed in areas of different climates.

Fort Larned National Historic Site

Buffalo Soldiers: The 10th Cavalry at Fort Larned

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

It was a challenge being among the first African American soldiers in the regular Army but the men of Company A, 10th U.S. Cavalry were up to the task. Learn about their time at Fort Larned.