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Saratoga National Historical Park
The Battles of Saratoga: Student reading activity
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This activity gives a summary account of the Battles of Saratoga. Using a short reading passage, students will answer several questions. Some of the questions require only knowledge-level responses, while others require a degree of analysis to answer the questions.
Saratoga National Historical Park
Saratoga Virtual Tour Scavenger Hunt
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Many schools will never be able to visit Saratoga National Historical Park, but teachers can still conduct a virtual tour of the battlefield on the park’s website, either during a computer lab, through a classroom computer connected to a projector, or on a Smart Board. This worksheet accompanies the virtual tour.
Cowpens National Battlefield
The Battle of Cowpens: The Battle Geography
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
To show students how Carolina backcountry geography affected the course of the Battle of Cowpens
Gettysburg National Military Park
Tide of Battle
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
There were many "turning point" moments of the Battle of Gettysburg, each critical to the battle's ultimate outcome. In three-part virtual field trip/distance learning program, students will analyze primary source documents including maps, officers' reports, and soldier accounts, from three different Union regiments and then developing their own response to the essential question of which they believed to have been the most important "turning point."
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
Battling Disease
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this lesson, students will answer the following essential questions: How has the prevention and battling of health threats changed between the US-Mexican War and today?
Kings Mountain National Military Park
The Battle of Kings Mountain
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Battle of Kings Mountain (October 7, 1780) was one of the most dramatic and hotly contested battles of the Revolutionary War. On an isolated ridge top in the Carolina backcountry, nearly 1000 American Patriots surrounded and overwhelmed an approximately equal number of American Loyalists.
Cowpens National Battlefield
Triage after the Battle
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The goal of this lesson is for students to become familiar with the healing and patient care required for returning soldiers to battle.
Shiloh National Military Park
Siege and Battle of Corinth
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
1) To explain why gaining control of the railroads in Corinth was important to both the Union and the Confederacy. 2) To describe the course of the Siege of Corinth and the Battle of Corinth and to evaluate their impact on the course of the Civil War. 3) To describe the fortifications constructed during these engagements and to analyze their importance. 4) To examine the role transportation routes played in the formation of the student's own community.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will participate in a web quest and create an interactive map of the battle that shows the placement of and information about the different troops and their leaders.
Ninety Six National Historic Site
A Siege Becomes A Battle
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This activity uses multiple short excerpts that discuss the sequence of events leading to Greene’s attack and eventual repulse at the Star Fort. Students will use chronological thinking to construct a deeper understanding of the siege and attack on Star Fort.
Cowpens National Battlefield
Battle of Cowpens Illustrated
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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Cowpens National Battlefield
Cowpens: A Battle Remembered
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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Saratoga National Historical Park
The Crucial Hour: Mapping Activity
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This activity is intended to be a simple exercise in analyzing and understanding how geography influenced decision making by both American and British armies in the Battles of Saratoga. It was originally planned for class use while visiting the battlefield, but it could also be used pre-visit in conjunction with the Saratoga National Historical Park virtual tour, or as a stand-alone activity.
Saratoga National Historical Park
On Hallowed Ground
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Ready-to-use materials for teachers can greatly contribute to a meaningful educational experience for students and teachers alike. This activity accompanies a self-guided battlefield tour during the course of a visit to Saratoga National Historical Park.
Saratoga National Historical Park
Why Here?
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This activity is designed to be reviewed by the teacher, photocopied, and distributed to students. It is intended to be a simple exercise in analyzing and understanding how geography influenced American and British decision making in the Battles of Saratoga. The activity was originally planned for class use while visiting the battlefield, but it could also be used pre-visit in conjunction with Saratoga National Historical Park's virtual tour, or as a stand-alone activity.
Monocacy National Battlefield
Battle to Save Water Quality
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Evaluating farmlands that saved Washington, D.C. in the past and today’s management practices that save future water quality.
Kings Mountain National Military Park
Tactics in the Battle of Kings Mountain
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
*How did the Kings Mountain area terrain and settlements effect the tactics in the Battle of Kings Mountain? *How were the tactics used at the Battle of Kings Mountain similar and different than other battles in the American Revolution? *How were the tactics used by loyalists and patriots at the Battle of Kings Mountain similar and different?
Cowpens National Battlefield
Morgan’s Plan of Battle at Cowpens
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Utilizing six fundamental historical concepts, students will break down and critically analyze Daniel Morgan’s innovative plan of battle at Cowpens.
Cowpens National Battlefield
The Battle of Cowpens: The Spatial Landscape
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
To gain skills in math and learn of the Battle of Cowpens by completing mathematical exercises.
Saratoga National Historical Park
Dear Diary
- Type: Primary Sources
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The Battles of Saratoga not only had significant effects on national and world history, but also deeply affected those directly and indirectly involved. “Dear Diary” uses primary source documents—journals—to examine this crucial event through the eyes of participants.