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Cowpens National Battlefield

Colonial Games

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

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Cowpens National Battlefield

Kids in Colonial Times

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

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Alaska’s Matanuska Colony

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

The New Deal reform, recovery, and relief programs changed the relationship between American’s and their government in revolutionary ways. The Resettlement Administration (RA), Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), and the Farm Security Administration (FSA) were programs to get displaced families off relief. More than eighty years after the Matanuska Colony was established much of it remains to tell the story of the New Deal resettlement program in Alaska.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Colonial Correspondence Material

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

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Colorado National Monument

Four for Fourth: Comprehensive 4th Grade Science (Every Kid Outdoors)

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

Topics: Adaptations, Weathering/Erosion/Deposition, Structure/Function, Force/Energy/Motion | This 4th grade stations program combines four subjects (Animals, Geology, Plants, and Water), where learners in small groups investigate each component of the ecosystem.

Colorado National Monument

Illustrating Life in Canyon Country

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Rangers will lead your students through a short tour of a natural history museum, followed by a step-by-step live drawing tutorial that highlights the unique desert adaptations of wildlife at Colorado National Monument.

Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park

TX Tortoise Coloring Page

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Simple, fun coloring page activity.

Cultural Legacy of Spanish Colonialism

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

Are you teaching your students to identify cultural contributions and perspectives? Are you looking for an opportunity to share how the age of exploration and European colonialism influenced early America? Invite Park Rangers from Castillo de San Marcos and Fort Matanzas into your classroom through live video conferencing!

White Sands National Park

Leapin' Lizards Coloring Sheet

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Through many years of changing habitats and adapting to their surroundings, most of our lizards are white in coloration. Use this coloring sheet to invent your own lizard with colors that would help it hide in your choice of environment!

Colorado National Monument

Little Explorers: A Nature Adventure for K-2 Learners

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Topics: Plants & Animals, Explorer Skills, Using Senses | This program for lower elementary engages natural interests in discovery and adventure on a small scale through a guided scavenger hunt, a coloring activity, acting as local animals, and dancing out the needs of plants.

Colorado National Monument

Roca, Roca, Roca

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

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to identify and list characteristics of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks and will be able to describe how each rock is formed.

Colorado National Monument

Ciclo de Rocas

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

At the completion of this lesson, students will be able to identify one or two ways that rocks can be broken down and/or combined and students will be able to describe the rock cycle of the sandstone.

Colorado National Monument

Tiny & Mighty: Elementary Life Science

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

Topics: Life Cycles, Adaptations, Structure/Function, Seasonal Change, Habitats/Ecosystems | Students use lenses (binoculars, field microscopes, magnifying lenses) to explore basic life science principles in the local environment.

Colorado National Monument

Rocky Rangers: Elementary Earth Science

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

Topics: Erosion & Natural Disasters, Fossils, Rock Cycle, Rock Types | This program explores elementary earth science standards through four station rotation activities that model the rock cycle.

Colorado National Monument

How Rock Layers Work: Middle School Earth Science

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

Topics: Stratigraphy (Rock Layers), Mapping, Rock Cycle, Geologic Time | Students will explore why rocks form layers, investigate how they're arranged across a landscape, navigate the rock cycle's role, and start to comprehend deep time.

Hard Core Rock

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

Students are introduced to the study of geology. They will learn about what is hidden beneath the surface of the Earth and how the geology of the Earth gives shape to the landscape. They will learn about the theory of plate tectonics and how the movement of these plates affects the world around us.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Then and Now (Colonial Comparison Student Activity)

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Using replicas of common items, students try to identify the objects and determine the purpose.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Colonial Games 2nd and 3rd Grade

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

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Adeline Hornbek and the Homestead Act: A Colorado Success Story

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

In the center of this lush valley stands the Hornbek homestead complex, the home of a strong, determined woman who came to the area with her four children in the 1870s. Claiming land under the Homestead Act, Adeline Hornbek defied traditional gender roles to become the owner of a prosperous ranch.

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: A Moravian Settlement in Colonial America

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

Learn why Moravians immigrated to the New World and how the towns they established embodied their religious beliefs.