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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.
Washita Battlefield National Historic Site
Washita Battlefield Traveling Trunk
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Learn about the role that Washita Battlefield played in the Plains Indian Wars as an expanding United States came into conflict with many Plains tribes such as the Cheyenne. The traveling trunk covers both sides of the battle, containing items for both the Cheyenne and 7th US Cavalry as well as six lesson plans to cover the Battle of the Washita. Lesson plans can be adapted to fit a wider range of grade levels.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Distanced and Displaced Lesson Plan
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This 8th grade lesson compares political maps of Native American homelands before and after westward expansion. It traces the cause factors leading to the cession of original Cheyenne and Arapaho lands prior to relocation in Oklahoma.
Washita Battlefield National Historic Site
Circles in the Snow
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The goals of this activity include: - Students will be able to identify a tipi ring and explain what it means; tell the story of what happened to two Cheyenne women in Black Kettle's camp during the November 27, 1868 attack; and critically analyze and discuss why the soldier chose to disobey orders.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Flags and National Identity
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The records Lewis Garrard kept during his ten-month journey along the Santa Fe Trail provide an outsider's view into intercultural interactions in the 1840s. This lesson features how national identity and sovereignty have been communicated through dress, color, and symbols in early American history as well as today.
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
Ranger-Guided Outdoor Fossil Hiking Programs
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Bring your class or group to see the Miocene fossil sites, American Indian heritage artifacts and more up close and interactively!
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Cultural Contact Lesson Plan
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson examines the origin of trade goods during the fur trade era and how commerce in early Colorado history served to increase settlement and westward expansion. It demonstrates how international markets have been and continue to be essential to the success of a nation’s economy.
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
Agate Fossil Beds Native American Collection
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Join our Education Rangers as we take a tour of the James Cook Collection of Native American artifacts, we will look inside “A window onto Lakota life” here on the Great Plains. We will also explore how the Bison was sacred to the Lakota and we will learn how the animal played an integral part of their daily lives. And talk about the friendship formed between Chief Red Cloud and a local rancher named James Cook.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
William's Wheel of Fortune Lesson Plan
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson plan engages the decisions made by William Bent, the manager of Bent's Fort's trading post during the fur trade era in the context of westward expansion. It examines contributing factors leading to the near extinction of bison herds decades later.