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Acadia National Park

Carriage Road Explorers Post Activities

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

Content is a post assessment, wrap up activity for the students who attend the Carriage Road Explorers in Acadia National Park. Students will describe the characters who were essential for the creation of the carriage roads.

Acadia National Park

Carriage Road Explorers 3rd Grade

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

Carriage road signs are designed to guide visitors around the carriage roads.

Acadia National Park

Virtual: Grades 3-5: Carriage Road ABCs: Architects, Bridges, and Carriages!

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

Draw, design, and move along as we explore the stories of those who helped engineer, build, and maintain the historic carriage roads and bridges of Acadia. (45 minutes)

Lake Clark National Park & Preserve

Carrying Capacity and Bears in Alaska

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

This lesson allows students to learn about the concept of carrying capacity by looking at the factors that allow animals to thrive in some areas, but not in others. Students will learn about the brown bears of Lake Clark National Park and the Denali area to see why some are leading successful lives and reproducing often and why some aren’t doing as well.

Fort Stanwix National Monument

Through the Oneida Carrying Place: Travel, Trade, and Conflict

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

How did European/Native contact on the New York frontier influence the development of early America? When this virtual tour is complete, students will have a brief overview of European/Native relations in early American history. Including how trade, war, and politics on the New York frontier affected both sides.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

Road Trip

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

Working independently or as a group, students will be given a list of resources, a map of the United States depicting the locations of all National Park Service sites (as of 2016), a math compass, Internet access (for a Web quest), a graphic organizer (for optional use) and scratch paper for computations.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

Road to the White House

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

Students have to sequence pictures of Bill Clinton in order on a timeline. Students work in groups to organize the pictures in chronological order.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 1 Overview of the National Road

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

This unit gives an overview of the National Road, teaching the students where it was located and its importance to transportation and commerce. It includes background information for the teacher, a student reading and two student activities; Map of the National Road and the National Road in Pennsylvania.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 2 Construction of the National Road

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

This unit covers the construction of the National Road, teaching the students how it was constructed and what types of work was needed to build the road. It includes background information for the teacher, a student reading and two student activities: Road Building Tools and Workers Building the National Road.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 4 Accommodations on the National Road

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

This unit covers accommodations on the National Road, teaching the students what type of food and places to stay travelers would have found along the road. It includes background information for the teacher, a student reading and two student activities: Food Along the National Road and Objects Now and Then.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 3 Travelers and Transportation on the National Road

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

This unit covers travelers and transportation on the National Road, teaching the students what types of vehicles traveled the road and what it was like to travel. It includes background information for the teacher, two student reading and two student activities: Stagecoach and Conestoga Wagon Coloring Sheet and Traveler’s Tools. One of the student readings is a journal of an emigrant family.

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.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 5 Workers Along the National Road

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

This unit covers workers along the National Road, teaching the students what types of work people preformed to help the travelers. It includes background information for the teacher, a student reading and two student activities: Traffic on the National Road and Jobs Along the National Road.

Ninety Six National Historic Site

Traveling the Great Wagon Road

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

Educational board game to teach about migration along the Great Wagon Road during the 1700s.

Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site

Ranching, Roads and Rivers, Then and Now

• Type: Teacher Workshops & Other Programs
• Grade Levels: Graduate Level (Masters, PhD)

Join the staff at Grant-Kohrs Ranch for a five-day Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics (STEAM) continuing education workshop for teachers. Gain an in-depth understanding of the natural and cultural resources at GRKO and incorporate that information into educational curricula. Explore new ideas and strategies on best practices for cross-curricular design, incorporate Art into STEM lessons and add to your collection of ready to use lessons.

Yellowstone National Park

Imaginary Yellowstone Road Trip

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

In this activity, students will learn about symbols and use them to express themselves in the form of a personalized license plate. With a brief introduction to Yellowstone National Park and its most popular attractions, students can explore the park on a virtual Yellowstone National Park road trip.

Acadia National Park

I Notice I Wonder: Waterfall Bridge

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

Acadia's carriage road systems are incredibly unique. Start generating conversation and have students practice "I notice, I Wonder" statements to share observations and skills in communication.

Old Spanish National Historic Trail

Old Spanish Trail Road Trip

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

We’re off on a grand adventure: a road trip across the famous Old Spanish Trail! The Old Spanish Trail was an arduous 1,200 mile route between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Los Angeles, California, which served traders who loaded their pack mules with woolen goods from Santa Fe each fall and returned from California each spring with goods, mules, and horses. The Old Spanish Trail linked two provinces of Mexico separated by difficult topography and climatic extremes.

César E. Chávez National Monument

César’s Road, Rangers in the Classroom Program

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Many people have heard of César Chávez and how he fought for rights and justice for agricultural workers, but what were the conditions that nurtured his activism? Our education rangers guide students in a math activity that puts them in César's shoes, showing how difficult it was for migrant farmworkers to have stable housing. Finally, they learn how César Chávez fought for better conditions for farmworkers.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 10 Artifact Activities

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

This unit has students reenact a tollhouse on the National Road where the students are required to calculate the toll rates charged and use coins to pay the correct toll. The students also use their math skills while participating in two different activities to calculate distances using the miles listed on the mile markers.