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Carroll Homestead Program
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students are welcome to join role-playing rangers in historical recreation of the Carroll Homestead. Designed around fourth grade Maine state standards, this program explores the contrast between 1800s Maine and contemporary society. Games, costumes, and the beautiful "Mountain House" tell a story of one family's subsistence life in early Maine
Virtual: Grades 4-8, Carroll Homestead
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn about the daily life of Mount Desert Island settlers in the mid-1800’s. Join a ranger for a tour of the Carroll Homestead, examine historic tools and toys, and learn about the chores children were responsible for. This program serves as a pre-field trip primer for local students or as a stand-alone program for groups further away. (50 minutes)
Habitats: Home Sweet Home
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Where do animals live and why? How are their needs similar to what people need? Are humans and animals so different after all? What habitats does the park offer and who lives in them? A 0.2 mile hike of the paved Piedmont Forest Trail will follow a short talk where we will look for some park "residents". This program lasts 30 minutes to one hour.
Home on the Canal
Habitat Is Home
Finding a Home
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
As immigrants finished processing at Ellis Island, many waited with hopes, fears, and anticipation about where they chose to settle. Some preferred the comforts of immigrant communities nearby. Others hoped to find better job opportunities outside the greater New York City area. Finding a Home simulates the experience of being a newly-arrived immigrant excited to take their next steps in America.
Letters Home
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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Writing Home
A Habitat Is A Home
Is This My Home?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to: 1. Demonstrate an understanding that a habitat is a home, and native habitats are the best and only home for native species. 2. Name three species that are only found within Haleakalā National Park. 3. Recognize that some plants and animals have specific needs and live in special homes that give them what they need.
Homes - Then and Now
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
At Home in Denali's Biome
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
What is it about Denali’s climate and geography that make it so special . . . and so fun to explore? As students learn about winter and summer in Denali, they will be challenged to compare and contrast Denali’s subarctic biomes to their own home. Through motion and play, we’ll discover how trees and animals survive in Denali year-round, and explore a sampling of the ways humans interact with Denali’s varied landscape and terrain.
Housing: Early Homes
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
At Home in Acadia (Kindergarten)
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Resources for Families at Home
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Everybody Needs A Home
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
The main purpose of this activity is for students to generalize that animals need a home. Homes are not just houses. A house may be considered shelter. People build houses, apartments, trailers, houseboats, and other kinds of shelter in which to live. Animals also need some kind of shelter. The shelter might be underground, in a bush, in the bark of a tree, or under some rocks.
Homesteading by the Numbers
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Radical Hospitality at the M'Clintock Home
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Thomas and Mary Ann M'Clintock made this their home for 20 years. They ran a local business, led the local Quaker Monthly Meeting, and were involved in almost every reform activity in Western New York. On July 16, 1848, Mary Ann M'Clintock hosted a session for the First Women's Rights Convention where planners drafted a document they called the Declaration of Sentiments proclaiming that "all men and women are created equal."