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Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

25th Infantry Bicycle Corps

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Adult Education

In the late 1890s, the bicycle grew in popularity as a mode of transportation. This sparked a curiosity for their use in the military. Lieutenant James A. Moss of the 25th Infantry volunteered to test this idea. Learn how the newly formed 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps journeyed over 2000 miles across the varied American landscape from Fort Missoula Montana to St. Louis Missouri. Discover the challenges and triumphs faced by the Buffalo Soldiers on their ride into history.

Gateway National Recreation Area

Clean Shore Corps

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will perform a trash survey in their own neighborhood, then one at the beach at Gateway. After comparing the results of the two surveys, students will identify which trash is the most prevalent, and come up with ways to reduce the trash. Rangers will provide lesson plans and equipment for the beach pick up. Please note that this program requires transportation between two points within the park.

Colonial National Historical Park

Civilian Conservation Corps

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

By completing a Break Out Edu type activity, students will discover what the Civilian Conservation Corps contributed to Colonial National Historic Park during the Neal Deal by deciphering clues that require students to read articles, encyclopedia entries, and a map.

Grand Canyon National Park

Company 818 and Segregation in the Civilian Conservation Corps

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

Learn the Civilian Conservation Corps at Grand Canyon and the ways in which the 1935 segregation orders changed Black enrollees experience.

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.

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

Buffalo Soldiers on the Move! How New Technologies Led to New Opportunities!

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Adult Education

As new modes of transportation were developed; they were adapted for military use. These new modes of transportation created new opportunities for soldiers to step into roles of leadership or be part of new regiments. African Americans took advantage of these new opportunities and combated the negative perception of their leadership abilities in the Army.

Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site

Who Are the Tuskegee Airmen?

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

Two famous Tuskegee Experiments were conducted in the small town of Tuskegee, Alabama between 1932 and 1972. One conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service (Public Health) beginning in 1932, later called the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. The other conducted by the U.S. Army Air Corps (Air Corps) beginning in 1941, the participants of which were later dubbed "Tuskegee Airmen"

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 6 Decline and Rebirth of the National Road

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

This unit covers the decline and rebirth the National Road, teaching the students about how railroads ended the National Road and how bicycles and cars helped it come back. It includes background information for the teacher, a student reading and two student activities: A Poem and a Riddle About the National Road and Picture Matching on the National Road.

Shenandoah National Park

CCC: A New Deal to Rebuild a Nation

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

This interactive program tells the story of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the context of the social, political, and economic history of the 1920s and 1930s using real places, real people, and real stories in Shenandoah National Park.

Gateway Arch National Park

Lewis and Clark

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

In this program, students learn about the Corps of Discovery's trip to the Pacific Coast from 1803 to 1806, which started and ended in St. Louis. Students also learn about the members of the expedition and the people they interacted with throughout the voyage.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Documenting the Uncharted Northwest

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

Follow a trail of discovery to the Pacific Northwest. Although the corps' findings destroyed the dream of a water route to the Pacific Ocean, their accomplishments had far reaching effects in expanding human knowledge and opening a new course for American history.

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.

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

Class of Discovery

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

Class of Discovery is the most in-depth ranger/teacher conducted program at the park. Students become the members of the expedition while they visit the park and participate in hands-on activities to learn what life was like during the time the Corps of Discovery stayed at Fort Clatsop.

“With Great Pains and Accuracy”

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

Lewis and Clark were given specific instructions on what to write about on their expedition. By reading the original letter given by Thomas Jefferson have your students identify not only the reasons for the Corps of Discovery but also if these can be useful in their own lives while traveling.

Gateway Arch National Park

Lewis and Clark (Distance Learning)

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

Students in this distance learning program will learn about the Corps of Discovery's expedition to the Pacific Coast from St. Louis, a round trip that took three years to complete between 1803 and 1806. They will also learn about the lives of Lewis and Clark and the people they interacted with during the expedition.

Natchez Trace Parkway

The Spark of Bravery, A Fire of Discovery

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

One of the bravest men in American history, join us for 45-minutes as we take a look at the incredible life of Meriwether Lewis from childhood through the Corps of Discovery, to his final days along Natchez Trace. *This program briefly discusses his suicide, with minimal detail, and the National Suicide Prevention hotline contact information

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

Life at the Fort Ranger Guided Field Trip

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

This program explorers what life was like for the "Corps of Discovery" at Fort Clatsop in 1805-06. Groups of 20 students rotate through 30-minute activity sessions coordinated by the park staff: Visitor Center "Exhibit Seek and Find," "Nature Walk" and an interactive interpretive program with a ranger in buckskin at the fort. Concludes with a Flintlock Muzzle Loading Rifle or Musket program.

Niobrara National Scenic River

Cows in the Campground - Pre-Visit Writing Activity

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

Students will read about the community of the Niobrara Valley prior to their field trip to develop an understanding of the significance of development and its co-existence with preservation of a natural resource. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the interrelationships contained in the river system by writing a descriptive essay based on an essay prompt of their choice.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Intercultural Kinship

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

Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail put him in contact with a variety of southwestern cultures. This lesson offers a chance to reflect on how family unions across cultures both helped and hindered successful operation of the Bent, St. Vrain, & Co. during the 1840s.

Olympic National Park

FDR’s New Deal Environmental Preservation

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

Students will be able to argue by using multiple sources the effectiveness of FDR’s Relief, Recovery and Reform Programs toward environmental preservation.