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Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Winter Adaptations in the Black Hills
- Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Using images, descriptions and definitions students will compare and contrast different strategies animals use to survive in their environment. They will apply this knowledge to other animals and environments and communicate their ideas within small groups and with the larger class.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Black Hills Fire Ecology
- Type: Distance Learning ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
How does fire help our landscapes? In this lesson students will learn about prescribed burns and the helpful side of fire through an activity and lesson.
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Black Resistance through Election Day
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson, students analyze primary sources to learn about the history of Black Election Day and the ways enslaved people resisted their enslavement in Massachusetts.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Black Valor During the Spanish-American War
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Adult Education
The Buffalo Soldiers were called to action during the Spanish-American War. At the start of the five-month war the men of these Buffalo Soldier units were labelled as heroes and praised for their sacrifices. However, at the war's end, the men's reputation had turned with negative press and gross insinuations. What changed? What happened that they were cut out of the picture with the Rough Riders?
Homestead National Historical Park
Black Homesteaders in Nebraska: Audacious Dreams (3rd - 5th)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Homestead Act of 1862 provided African Americans with the prospect of farm ownership. In Nebraska, Black homesteaders built successful farms from eastern tallgrass prairies to the arid Sandhills in the west and the intentional community of DeWitty, NE. Students will explore how Nebraska’s Black homesteaders persevered.
Homestead National Historical Park
Black Homesteaders in Nebraska: Audacious Dreams (6th - 8th)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The Homestead Act of 1862 provided African Americans with the prospect of farm ownership. In Nebraska, Black homesteaders built successful farms from eastern tallgrass prairies to the arid Sandhills in the west and the intentional community of DeWitty, NE. Students will explore how Nebraska’s Black homesteaders persevered.
Homestead National Historical Park
Black Homesteaders on the Great Plains: Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness (Adult)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Adult Education
The call of free land offered Black Americans the possibilities of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness on the Great Plains. Come learn about the struggles that Black homesteaders met in building and sustaining households and communities.
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.
Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Pirates of North Carolina
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson is designed to introduce students to pirates who plagued the coast of North Carolina during the time of colonization, as well as to develop research skills in technology and write a research report. They will use a variety of strategies and writing process elements in the composing of their report. It will allow students to integrate research of social studies/history of the colonial era with technology, reading, and writing.
Homestead National Historical Park
Black Homesteaders on the Great Plains: Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness (9th - 12th)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The call of free land offered Black Americans a welcome reprieve from a cycle of poverty driven by sharecropping and racialized violence in the South. The Homestead Act of 1862 helped at least 3400 Black farmers build homes across the Great Plains. Homesteading attracted groundbreaking independent Black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux and agronomist and inventor George Washington Carver.
Homestead National Historical Park
Black Homesteaders on the Great Plains: Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness (6th - 8th)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The call of free land offered Black Americans a welcome reprieve from a cycle of poverty driven by sharecropping and racialized violence in the South. The Homestead Act of 1862 helped at least 3400 Black farmers build homes across the Great Plains. Homesteading attracted groundbreaking independent Black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux and agronomist and inventor George Washington Carver.
George Washington Carver National Monument
George Washington Carver - The Artist: The Plant Doctor
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
A Black-Eyed Susan flower, with yellow petals and a brown/black center, commonly found on tallgrass prairie at George Washington Carver National Monument
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.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students compare black, grizzly, and polar bear shapes, sizes, tracks and food.
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.
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
Consider the Source: The Words We Mean: An Exercise and Study on Euphemisms, Language, and Dialogue about Chattel Slavery in Western North Carolina and the United States (Grades 6-8) Lesson 1 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This is the 1st of 3 lessons designed to contribute to middle school student's working knowledge of Black history in Western North Carolina. This lesson introduces students to the language of Black history and its relevance to their own dialogues and historical skills. With multiple interactive opportunities, and historical and artistic sources, students will develop language arts and critical thinking skills.
Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve
Bears of Glacier Bay Lesson One: Name That Bear
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn what the differences are between brown bears and black bears, and along the way, you'll learn how a bear's growth, development, and maturation compares to a human.
Grand Canyon National Park
Lumber, The Green Book, and Grand Canyon
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
From lumber workers in Northern Arizona to listings in the Green Book, learn about the ways Black Americans have long contributed to Grand Canyon History.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
A black and white photograph featuring a woman smiling as she looks at a video call with a baby held up to the screen on the other end. The photograph was taken in 1964, this is an example of early video call technology.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
During the lesson, the teacher and students will read White Water aloud. As they read, students will investigate how one young boy's curiosity leads him to discover that the water from a segregated White drinking fountain tastes the same as the water from the Black drinking fountain.