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Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

Civilian War Experience: The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain

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

How did the experience of the Civil War differ from multiple perspectives, including that of women, children, and other civilians? Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park is a 2,923 acre site that saw some of the fiercest fighting of the Atlanta Campaign of the Civil War. While the site is best known for the battle that took place there, it is often forgotten that there was a thriving community surrounding the Mountain.

Richmond National Battlefield Park

Neither Cold Nor A Harbor: Archeology and a Civil War Soldier’s Experience at the Battle of Cold Harbor

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

In June of 1864, the soldiers at Cold Harbor had to make use of the limited resources they had to survive. They used repurposed materials and their own hands to dig trenches and earthenwork mounds that would protect them from gunfire and mortar shells. This lesson plan combines artifact and map inquiry to learn about the Civil War landscape. Este plan de clase con actividades incluido también está disponible en español.

Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site

Experience Grant-Kohrs Ranch

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

Programs may be available on topics such as pioneer life, the Open Range cattle era, the cowboy, the chuck wagon, blacksmithing, livestock and much more.

George Washington Memorial Parkway

Meaningful Watershed Education Experience

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

This Meaningful Watershed Education Experience is a three and a half hour program that gives students hands-on experience exploring the biotic and abiotic components that make up a freshwater marsh biome.

Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site

Mary McLeod Bethune Virtual Experience

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The Mary McLeod Bethune Virtual Exhibit highlights some of the significant achievements in her life of leadership and service.

Arthurdale: A New Deal Community Experiment

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

Welcome to historic Arthurdale, West Virginia, a New Deal village built from the ground-up for coal miners and their families during the Great Depression.

Fort Larned National Historic Site

Dwellings of Fort Larned: An Earthy Experience

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

Fort Larned was established on the Santa Fe Trail in 1859. The soldiers built crude dugouts, sod and adobe shelters, and a picket stockade fencing for the animals. Students will explore the construction and the living conditions of the fort dwellings.

Log Cabins in America: The Finnish Experience

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

Consider how simple, functional cabins, like those built by the Finns in Idaho, became symbols in American politics and folklore.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

High School Winter Experience Field Trips

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

The application period for the Winter 2024/25 Winter Exp programming season is open as of September 1, 2024. Students will be guided through age-appropriate programming related to watersheds, climate change, and winter ecology. Funds for busing reimbursements may be available. See grant information below.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Middle School Winter Experience Field Trips

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

The application period for the Winter 2024/25 Winter Exp programming season is open as of September 1, 2024. Students will be guided through age-appropriate programming related to watersheds, climate change, and winter ecology. Funds for busing reimbursements are available, and will be considered on a first come, first served basis.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

3rd - 5th Grade Winter Experience Field Trips

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

The application period for the Winter 2024/25 Winter Exp programming season is open as of September 1, 2024. Students will be guided through age-appropriate programming related to watersheds, climate change, and winter ecology. Funds for busing reimbursements may be available. See grant information below.

Andersonville National Historic Site

Libby life: experiences of a prisoner of war in Richmond, Va., 1863-64

• Type: Primary Sources
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

As a lieutenant colonel of the 114th Pennsylvania volunteers, Cavada was captured at Gettysburg, July, 1863. His journal extends from that date to March, 1864. The appendix (p. 205-221) contains a list of Libby prisoners who requested its publication (Dec. 1863)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.