Filter Your Results
- Lesson Plan (315)
- Distance Learning (112)
- Field Trips (101)
- Student Activities (79)
- Other Education Materials (70)
- Guest Speakers (54)
- Teacher Reference Materials (42)
- Traveling Trunk (18)
- Primary Sources (13)
- Field Schools & Institutes (8)
- Teacher Workshops & Other Programs (6)
- Online Galleries (4)
- Media for Loan (3)
- Teacher-Ranger-Teacher (2)
- Science Labs (1)
- Acadia National Park (83)
- Cowpens National Battlefield (26)
- Andersonville National Historic Site (20)
- Mount Rushmore National Memorial (19)
- Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument (18)
- Fort Scott National Historic Site (16)
- Fort Necessity National Battlefield (14)
- Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park (14)
- Women's Rights National Historical Park (14)
- Show More ...
- Social Studies (575)
- Literacy and Language Arts (259)
- Science (209)
- Math (76)
- Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade (287)
- Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade (252)
- High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade (102)
- Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade (78)
- Adult Education (26)
- Graduate Level (Masters (2)
- PhD) (2)
- College Undergraduate Level (1)
Showing 748 results for Civil War Education ...
Antietam National Battlefield
Women in the Civil War
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This lesson plan can be used to help your students explore some of the important roles that women had during the Civil War.
- 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.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The Forgotten Warriors of the Civil War is the story of the tragic effect that the American Civil War had upon the tribes of the Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma). More than any other particular group in the United States at the time, the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole (the Five Civilized Tribes) were divided between loyalty to the Union and the secessionist Southern states. This lesson will teach students about why this “civil war within a civil war” occurred.
Cane River Creole National Historical Park
The Civil War Comes to Louisiana
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Scott's Great Snake also known as the Anaconda Plan.
Springfield Armory National Historic Site
The Women of World War I and II: Traveling Education Trunks
- Type: Traveling Trunk ... Primary Sources ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The Women of World War I and II investigates the role of women during both World Wars. This traveling trunk explores the reasons why women embraced the predominantly male jobs, the work they did, and their lasting legacy in the role of women’s fight for equality.
Gateway Arch National Park
Civil War in the West Traveling Trunk
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
What was it like to live in the Midwest during the Civil War? This traveling trunk will explore the Civil War through the eyes of two children who grew up in St. Louis during the nineteenth century. Although they did not live on the edge of any major battles, they felt the conflict and tension that the war years brought with it.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn why this home in Fredericksburg, Virginia, was a center of military activity, and consider the impact the war had on those whose property became part of the battlefield.
Andersonville National Historic Site
The American Civil War: A Humanitarian Perspective
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learning about humanitarian law helps students connect lessons of the past with the issues of the present. Students will explore historical events through the lives of those who experienced the American Civil War and will participate in hands-on exercises that make for challenging and exciting class projects and discussions. The lessons will also help students develop critical thinking skills and character.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Saws and Scalpels: Civil War Medicine
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Most of us today would not want to go the hospital if we could help it, because we associate hospitals with sickness and injury. However, because these two conditions occur with a great degree of regularity, hospitals often become a necessity to help us recover. During the Civil War, soldiers and civilians attached similar meanings to hospitals-a place of suffering, yes, but also a place of healing and recovery.
Fort Donelson National Battlefield
Civil War Nurse Mary A. Newcomb
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Nineteenth century women and young girls were restricted by societal norms and customs, particularly what was perceived as appropriate choices for their education or careers. It was acceptable by 1860 for women to become teachers, but not so for women who wanted to serve as doctors or nurses. Through her efforts and struggles as a volunteer, Mary Ann Newcomb became recognized as a nurse in the United States Military, achieving a pension for her four-year service.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The peaceful surroundings--white sugar-sand beaches, clumps of golden sea oats, and the soothing sounds of coastal waves pounding on the shores of a long barrier island--belie the serious purpose of Fort Pickens, located on Santa Rosa Island in Florida. One of the largest brick forts built in the United States, Fort Pickens provided the setting for a serious effort by a small group of men to avert or at least postpone the outbreak of the Civil War.
Cane River Creole National Historical Park
Educator Workshops
- Type: Teacher Workshops & Other Programs
- Grade Levels: Graduate Level (Masters, PhD)
Educators can receive instruction in conducting hands-on activities that can be immediately incorporated into the classroom. Workshops bring you useful, and powerful teaching tools for Creole Culture, Place Based Learning, Teaching about Water, Climate Change, Environmental Education Certifications, and more!
Fort Donelson National Battlefield
Life as a Civil War Sailor in the US Navy
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Life of a Civil War Sailor on the City-Series Ironclads
Gettysburg National Military Park
Join the Army: The Life of a Civil War Soldier
- Type: Field Trips ... Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Civil War soldier’s life was full of hardships, sacrifices, and challenges. This student education program offers a ninety-minute long hands-on program especially for school-age children in Grades 3-6 that will encourage further study of American history and the Civil War.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
(1860s) Saws and Scalpels: Civil War Medicine
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
During the program, students volunteers discuss symptoms, diagnose illnesses, and determine treatments. The Civil War Medical program can be presented any time of year, except during Life on the Frontier programs and special events, providing that staffing is available. Program time runs from fifteen to forty-five minutes. This version is designed for middle school level.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Supplies, Survival, and Success: Civil War Quartermaster
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In our modern world, many of us have come to rely on transportation systems and the operation of stores and warehouses in order to provide us with food, clothing, and other essentials for survival. During the Civil War, Fort Scott played a similar role as a supply depot that was critical to the survival and success of Union soldiers in the area.
Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site
Citizenship and Voting During the Civil War Era
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
During Ulysses S. Grant's lifetime, the United States transitioned from a country where only a small number of wealthy white elites had full citizenship and voting rights to one in which men and women, white and black, were guaranteed citizenship and all men could vote. "Citizenship and Voting during the Civil War Era" examines these dramatic changes to America's political institutions.
Booker T Washington National Monument
War on the Home Front: Civil War Reading Passage with Graphic Organizer
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Civil War and its outcomes were life-changing events for all the people, both free and enslaved, who were associated with the Burroughs Plantation from 1850 – 1865. Students will learn about: •Life on a piedmont Virginia, slaveholding tobacco farm •National debate on slavery/Differences between North and South •Why the war was fought •How the enslaved and their owners reacted to the war •How each group was affected after the war
Fort Scott National Historic Site
(1860s) Supplies, Survival and Success: Civil War Quartermaster
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
During this program, students will have the opportunity to gain insight and appreciation of the critical role of supply functions in both historic and modern times.
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
African Americans During the Civil War: A Compressed History
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Lesson Plan detailing African American involvement during the American Civil War in both combatant and noncombatant roles. Lesson also highlights individual involvement and contributions to the war effort as well as document analysis.