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Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Flags and National Identity
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The records Lewis Garrard kept during his ten-month journey along the Santa Fe Trail provide an outsider's view into intercultural interactions in the 1840s. This lesson features how national identity and sovereignty have been communicated through dress, color, and symbols in early American history as well as today.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

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

This 8th grade lesson compares political maps of Native American homelands before and after westward expansion. It traces the cause factors leading to the cession of original Cheyenne and Arapaho lands prior to relocation in Oklahoma.

Tonto National Monument: Saving a National Treasure
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Learn about one of the nation's most important conservation laws--the Antiquities Act of 1906--and how its passage preserved important cultural sites such as Tonto National Monument, which preserves remnants of the Salado culture prior to European contact.

Scotts Bluff National Monument

"Symbols of Our Nation"
  • Type: Guest Speakers
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

This fun lesson is appropriate for kindergarten and first grade.

Rocky Mountain National Park

What are National Parks?
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

What is a National Park and what were they created to protect? Meet with a ranger to investigate the meaning behind each symbol within the National Park Service emblem and explore various NPS sites across the country.

What is a National Park?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will analyze the arrowhead logo as an introduction to the National Park Service. Students learn how the design of the National Park Service arrowhead is made up of symbols, and then have a chance to create their own design specific to Hawai‘i. We will then be introducing ways that we can help care for our parks through the 7 Leave No Trace principles, and help students to understand that the National Parks belong to each and every one of us!

National Park of American Samoa

What is a National Park?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The National Park of American Samoa is one of over 400 units of the National Park Service. This activity helps students explore and understand the various units in the system.

Haleakalā National Park

What is a National Park?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will analyze the arrowhead logo as an introduction to the National Park Service, an agency whose mission is to protect and preserve natural and cultural resources for future generations and provide visitors with opportunities for recreation and learning. Students learn how the design of the National Park Service arrowhead is made up of symbols, and then have a chance to create their own design specific to Hawai‘i.

Haleakalā National Park

What Is A National Park?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to determine how Haleakalā National Park protects special native habitats and how the students can help protect them too.

Haleakalā National Park

What Is A National Park?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to determine how Haleakalā National Park protects cultural and natural resources and how the students can help protect them too.

What National Park Is It?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This activity challenges students to look at different pictures of national park sites and try to guess which park the picture represents. The pictures page gives a distinguishing feature of each park and an interesting fact to help students match to the list of possible choices.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Symbolism in National Parks
  • Type: Distance Learning ... Primary Sources ... Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

History of the iconic NPS Arrowhead logo, and a dive into what symbols are, and how we use them. Students will get activities to create their own symbols about their lives.

Glacier National Park

Create a National Park
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students create a mini-national park in a specified outdoor area, marking a nature trail and providing visitors with information about the park.

Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park

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

Learn the special role played by the National Park Service in preserving our shared natural, cultural, and historical heritage through the lens of the history of Paterson, New Jersey!

Everglades National Park

"Create a National Park" National Parks: 4-6 Grade
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this activity, students will create their own national park, while learning about the value of national parks.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 1 Overview of the National Road
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This unit gives an overview of the National Road, teaching the students where it was located and its importance to transportation and commerce. It includes background information for the teacher, a student reading and two student activities; Map of the National Road and the National Road in Pennsylvania.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 2 Construction of the National Road
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This unit covers the construction of the National Road, teaching the students how it was constructed and what types of work was needed to build the road. It includes background information for the teacher, a student reading and two student activities: Road Building Tools and Workers Building the National Road.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 4 Accommodations on the National Road
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This unit covers accommodations on the National Road, teaching the students what type of food and places to stay travelers would have found along the road. It includes background information for the teacher, a student reading and two student activities: Food Along the National Road and Objects Now and Then.

Shenandoah National Park

4th-10th Grade | Shenandoah National Park: Virginia's Gift to the Nation
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Shenandoah National Park is a significant part of our nation’s history as well as Virginia’s environment and economy. In this lesson, students will explore the historical, cultural, economic, and ecological significance of the Park through classroom activities and a field trip.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 3 Travelers and Transportation on the National Road
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This unit covers travelers and transportation on the National Road, teaching the students what types of vehicles traveled the road and what it was like to travel. It includes background information for the teacher, two student reading and two student activities: Stagecoach and Conestoga Wagon Coloring Sheet and Traveler’s Tools. One of the student readings is a journal of an emigrant family.