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Chaco Culture National Historical Park

Ancient Observatories

Type: Teacher Reference Materials
Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Ancient carving on rock

Chaco Culture National Historical Park

Scouts and Shovels: “Crashing the Gates” with Bertha Dutton

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

Bertha Dutton was one of the first female archeologists who worked with the National Park Service. This lesson plan emphasizes her original methodologies and why her work was so important to both women’s history and cultural resource preservation. Este plan de clase con actividades incluido también está disponible en español.

Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument

Southern Paiute Cultural History Curriculum Guide

Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The purpose of the Southern Paiute Cultural History supplemental curriculum lessons is to provide opportunities for students to learn about the region’s cultural history. Studying about past cultures and traditions provide a context for deeper understanding that links today’s Southern Paiute people with their rich cultural legacy. Archeology helps to provide a better understanding of these connections.

Middens and Math: “Crashing the Gates” with Florence Hawley Ellis

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

Students will learn about the challenges that 19th- and 20th-century women faced when choosing a career path. They will then read a biography of Florence Hawley Ellis, one of the earliest American women to break into the male-dominated field of archeology. Este plan de clase con actividades incluido también está disponible en español.

Pottery of the Ancestral Pueblo

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

Essential question: How did the ancestral Pueblos make their pottery? What did they use to paint their pottery, and how did they choose their designs? Students will be able to: Identify the stylistic attributes of Acoma, Jemez, San Ildefonso, and Santa Clara pottery and distinguish between the traditional Acoma, Jemez, San Ildefonso, and Santa Clara pottery design motifs and forms. Recognize and create similar objects and stylistic motifs

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Great Smoky Mountains - Mingus Mill History and Culture

Type: Field Trips
Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

The Great Smoky Mountains are world renowned for their diversity of plant and animal species. Mingus Mill, located in the Oconaluftee Valley, provides a beautiful spot where students are introduced to daily life routines of the 19th century. Through games, activities, a peek inside the operating mill, and a short hike students are encouraged to compare and contrast the communities of early settlers to their own.

Weir Farm National Historical Park

Virtual Field Trip to Weir Farm National Historical Park

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

Through videos and 3-D virtual tours, students are introduced to the artists who lived and created art at Weir Farm. They are encouraged to look closely at paintings and painting sites to discover artistic inspiration.

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park

Exploring Habitats at Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park

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

Discover the many places that animals live at within the park! Students will explore habitats, and the animals that call them home. Meets Kentucky 2nd grade science standards. This lesson was created by Kentucky teachers as a part of the History and Science Explore Project.

Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical Park

Nature, Art and Conservation at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park

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

Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School, stated “The ravages of the axe are daily increasing desecration by what is called improvement; which as yet generally destroys Nature’s beauty without substituting that of Art.” This unit, Nature, Art and Conservation at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park, will explore this very issue through on-site visits, school based lessons and independent research. For this unit students will begin by reading Marsh’s Man and Nature...

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Cultural Dress

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 insight into how cultural dress differed during the 1840s and was used to understand the wearer's society, class, occupation, and access to materials.

Arches National Park

Cultural Contributions

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

In the classroom, students observe artifacts and discuss clues artifacts provide about the lives of people who lived near Moab in the past. On the field trip, students make their own pottery, cordage, and petroglyph replicas.

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

Culture and Community

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

In this lesson, students will look at reasons why people immigrate and settle in new places and how that is oftentimes connected to the need for jobs. Students will choose an ethnic community whose members either came to work in and around Rhode Island mills (or a modern-day culture in their town) and create a poster honoring that community's impact using Adobe Spark (if looking for a digital option) or on a piece of paper (if looking for a hands-on option).

Glacier National Park

Oral Histories and Glacier National Park

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

Students read and compare/contrast the cultural stories about creation of land formations with “A Geological Story of Glacier National Park.” The teacher will lead a discussion about story telling, oral history, and different explanations for the same phenomena.

Appomattox Court House National Historical Park

Perspectives After the Surrender at Appomattox CH

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

This program will allow students to think about the different perspectives of those who lived through the Civil War, and how various viewpoints interpreted the events surrounding the Surrender Meeting at Appomattox. This program consists of several assignments designed to help students explore these differences through the stories of three people present at Appomattox Court House in 1865.

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

National Parks Legacy: Nature and Culture...NPS Protects Both! Grades Pre K-1

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

The National Park Legacy aims to introduce students to the work of the National Park Service. This lesson describes the kind of features preserved by the park service, including natural, cultural, and historical resources.

"The Culture of Scotts Bluff"

Type: Guest Speakers
Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Invite a park ranger from Scotts Bluff National Monument into your classroom for a fun, curriculum-based, social studies lesson on culture. Teams of students will look at packages of "culture clues" to determine which culture of people who have passed near Scotts Bluff they represent. In addition, students will develop a definition of what "culture" is.

Lava Beds National Monument

Cultural Traveling Trunk

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

Check out a Cultural Traveling Trunk from Lava Beds National Monument!

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

Lesson 1 - THE CULTURE CONCEPT

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

This curriculum is based on the collaborative ethnography Talk That Music Talk: Passing on Brass Band Music in New Orleans the Traditional Way, by Bruce Sunpie Barnes and Rachel Breunlin, published by UNO Press in 2014. Visit https://www.neighborhoodstoryproject.org/talk-that-music-talk for information on obtaining the book and a full book of lesson plans.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Material Culture: the Fife and Drum

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

How does music from the Battle of Cowpens help us understand this historical event?