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Showing 550 results for Civil Rights People ...
- Type: Online Galleries
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Collect stories about the Civil War and civil rights! The National Park Service is offering more than 500 trading cards to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Cane River Creole National Historical Park
Civil Rights Leaders Bingo
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Discover Civil Rights Leaders through this fun and interactive BINGO game! Students will learn about national and local leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr, Harriet Tubman, Dr. E. A. Johnson, and Rosa Parks.
Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park
LBJ and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Learn about President Johnson's legislation actions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Eisenhower National Historic Site
Eisenhower and Little Rock: A Civil Rights Lesson
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort African-American students to Central High School in Little Rock in Sept. 1957, after the governor of Arkansas tried to enforce segregation. Photo courtesy National Archives. Operation Arkansas
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
How did President Dwight Eisenhower balance competing views on race relations and the power of the federal government in handling the Little Rock Crisis in 1957? In this lesson plan, students have the opportunity to analyze Eisenhower's decision making and study primary source letters written to the president during the Little Rock Crisis.
Independence National Historical Park
The Liberty Bell as a Symbol for Civil Rights, grades 4-8
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will examine primary sources to discover the connection between the inscription on the Liberty Bell and the Civil Rights Movement.
First State National Historical Park
The People’s House
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will explore Delaware’s historic capitol, The Old State House, and its many functions through the years including a view of Delaware governments in the past. The locations where the branches of government historically conducted business will be pointed out on the building tour. The program takes place around The Dover Green.
Glacier National Park
Boundaries and People
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will study maps and watersheds to understand natural boundaries and the movements of humans and wildlife.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
Women’s Rights are Human Rights
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this series of four lesson plans from the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor, students will be able to explore the development and growth of the American women's rights movement. This includes lessons about the Seneca Falls Convention, the Erie Canal, and the later women's rights movement. Developed by educator Lynn Girven of the Rochester City School District.
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
Civil Rights Then and Now (Grades 9-12) Carl Sandburg Home NHS
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
How are civil rights similar and different to 100 years ago?
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
The People: Pre-1845
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Discussion questions for the web article exploring the history of the Hidatsa Mandan Arikara Nation pre-1845. Discussion includes information about the early villages, early explorers, Sacagawea, oral history, education and societies, and tribal origins.
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
The People: Pre-1845
- Type: Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This background reading material explores the history of the Three Affiliated Tribes from Pre-1845. It covers the Early Villages, Sacagawea, and other people of historic significance who visited the region and villages for exploration and trade.
First State National Historical Park
Rights, Rules and Privileges
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This program explores the differences between rights, rules and privileges and the need for government and laws. Students have to determine if something is a right, a rule or a privilege. This program takes place at the New Castle Court House Museum.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
Be a Women's Rights Influencer
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will research women’s rights and reform advocates from the nineteenth century. Students will choose one activist and act as their social media manager. Students will create a social media plan for the platform of their choice and highlight their reformer’s story.
Niobrara National Scenic River
Peoples of the Niobrara River Valley
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
60 minutes classroom time, or split into two 30 minute lessons https://youtu.be/5xPK4AJ4nQg Students will learn about the many different caretakers of the Niobrara River through-out history and examine the impact that the river had on their families and culture at those times. Each era of Niobrara Caretakers is followed by a discussion and writing prompt asking students to examine their own experiences of family and culture today.
Klondike Gold Rush - Seattle Unit National Historical Park
Klondike's Environmental Impact on People
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
What situations were travelers to the Klondike Gold Rush prepared to handle? Are there any bugs or animals that could have caused them harm? Do you think the small chance of finding gold successfully outweighed the risks and costs of sailing and hiking into the Yukon?
Federal Hall National Memorial
Federal Hall and the Bill of Rights
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will learn about the Bill of Rights, its significance to Federal Hall, and create their own Bill of Rights.
- Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students analyze two primary source documents to learn about the lives and work of enslaved people in Salem and Essex County. Enslaved people mentioned in these documents were connected to Salem merchant, Richard Derby.
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
The Cherokee People: Elementary Lesson Plan
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students gain an understanding of cultural elements of the Cherokee people through the use of traditional stories and reading information on websites. A series of activities provide hands-on opportunities to learn about Sequoyah and the Cherokee language, the Trail of Tears, and the trade and barter system with European settlers.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
We The People: Life at a Frontier Fort
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
We The People explores the many roles present in the community of people who called Fort Scott and the surrounding area home in the 1840s.