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Colonial National Historical Park

Civilian Conservation Corps

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

By completing a Break Out Edu type activity, students will discover what the Civilian Conservation Corps contributed to Colonial National Historic Park during the Neal Deal by deciphering clues that require students to read articles, encyclopedia entries, and a map.

Grand Canyon National Park

Company 818 and Segregation in the Civilian Conservation Corps

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

Learn the Civilian Conservation Corps at Grand Canyon and the ways in which the 1935 segregation orders changed Black enrollees experience.

Gateway National Recreation Area

Clean Shore Corps

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will perform a trash survey in their own neighborhood, then one at the beach at Gateway. After comparing the results of the two surveys, students will identify which trash is the most prevalent, and come up with ways to reduce the trash. Rangers will provide lesson plans and equipment for the beach pick up. Please note that this program requires transportation between two points within the park.

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

Cookie Conservation

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

Students will mine chocolate chips out of chocolate chip cookies as a proxy for fossil collecting. The point of this activity is to get students to think about how fossil collecting can make a public land site much less appealing to visit and eventually leave no fossils for future generations to see.

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

25th Infantry Bicycle Corps

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Adult Education

In the late 1890s, the bicycle grew in popularity as a mode of transportation. This sparked a curiosity for their use in the military. Lieutenant James A. Moss of the 25th Infantry volunteered to test this idea. Learn how the newly formed 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps journeyed over 2000 miles across the varied American landscape from Fort Missoula Montana to St. Louis Missouri. Discover the challenges and triumphs faced by the Buffalo Soldiers on their ride into history.

Wind Cave National Park

Chocolate Chip Conservation

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

A delicious activity to teach kids about the importance of conservation.

Civil War to Civil Rights Trading Cards

• 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.

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park

Conservation vs Preservation and the National Park Service

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

Discover the difference between conservation and preservation and learn how the National Park Service plays a role in each.

Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park

The "Five Civilized Tribes"

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

village of the Mississippian culture ancestors of the Five Civilized Tribes

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.

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

Breaking into the Army Nurse Corps: How Black Nurses Demanded to Serve

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Adult Education

How did African American women break into the Army Nurse Corps? The nurses of the Army Nurse Corps were an essential part of the war effort. The African American nurses fought to serve their country and to be there for the Black soldiers they treated. Though hurdles were laid in their way, these women succeeded in enlisting in the Army. Many Black nurses went on to serve around the world and perform ground-breaking research.

Shenandoah National Park

CCC: A New Deal to Rebuild a Nation

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This interactive program tells the story of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the context of the social, political, and economic history of the 1920s and 1930s using real places, real people, and real stories in Shenandoah National Park.

Prince William Forest Park

Cabin Camp History Talk

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Take a one to two hour tour of a historic cabin camp built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in Prince William Forest Park. Learn about the how the Great Depression and New Deal contributed to the creation of the park.

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...

The Forgotten Warriors of the Civil War

• 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

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.

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.

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

National Park Legacy - Battle the Bully Plants and Conserve Water! Grades 5 - 6

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

SMMNRA Nature Neighbor Project suggests native plant options for landscapes near natural areas. Native plants can generally resist weather challenges, require no fertilizer or pesticide and attract wildlife. Most importantly, plants native to Southern California are adapted to drought conditions and water is California’s most prized natural resource.

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.

Chatham Plantation: Witness to the Civil War

• 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.