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Showing 949 results for Delaware history ...
First State National Historical Park
Delaware 1st Tour
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students will develop an understanding of how certain events can lead to other events occurring starting with the Native Americans in Delaware through the beginning of the United States. This program takes place at the New Castle Court House Museum.
First State National Historical Park
A Balancing Act: Delaware and the Constitution
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will participate in and understand the legislative process through participating in an interactive program at The Old State House based on the process of passing a law though the branches of government. This program takes place around The Dover Green.
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
The Many Faces of Delaware Water Gap
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Rocks don't have to be dull! Park rangers, federal geologists, and local teachers worked together to prove it! These curriculum-based field trips explore five locations in the park in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. This two-color, 125-page binder provides background material, a glossary, directions to sites, and practical suggestions for field trips, and explores both famous and little-known evidence of the park's formation.
First State National Historical Park
The People’s House
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will explore Delaware’s historic capitol, The Old State House, and its many functions through the years including a view of Delaware governments in the past. The locations where the branches of government historically conducted business will be pointed out on the building tour. The program takes place around The Dover Green.
First State National Historical Park
Saving the Past, Shaping the Future
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will experience historic preservation through immersive digital tools to explore artifacts, read letters, hear stories, and connect with Delaware's history.
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.
First State National Historical Park
Where the State Began
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
An overview of Delaware Native Americans, European colonization, colonial settlements and hands-on exploration through art, objects, artifacts, historical documents and maps. This program takes place at the New Castle Court House Museum.
Acadia National Park
Sieur de Monts Stewards
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students explore various trails and the new Nature Center exhibit to delve into the topic of human change in the environment. This program takes place along easy to moderate hiking paths with some uneven terrain.
Saint Croix Island International Historic Site
Sieur de Mad-Lib
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Use our words and your own silly words to fill in the blanks in Pierra Dugua's story of how and why he came to North America.
Acadia National Park
Sieur de Monts Scavenger Hunt
- Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Sieur de Monts has limited accessibility in the winter but can offer great flat locations to explore. Use this scavenger hunt to guide your experience. Fill out at least 3 activities to print the scavenger hunt certificate.
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Geology Lesson 3. Where did the oceans go?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The learner will: • Understand the external forces that aid landscape evolution. • Apply this understanding to the Guadalupe Mountains, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, the Delaware basin area, or your local geography.
First State National Historical Park
The 1787 Manslaughter Trial of William White
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students role-play an historic adaptation of the Delaware manslaughter trial of William White. After hearing the witnesses, the jury will have to determine the guilt or innocence of Mr. White remembering that they do not have the benefits of modern forensics. This program takes place at the New Castle Court House Museum.
First State National Historical Park
A World Apart
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
School tours complement Delaware’s Social Studies Standards. A special thematic demonstration (weaving, hearth cooking, etc.) can be scheduled for tours. This field trip takes place at the John Dickinson Plantation.
President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site
Why Visit His Home?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Using a four square graphic organizer, draft, edit and publish a persuasive essay OR draft a speech to persuade OR create a Prezi to persuade the observer to visit the birthplace home of President Clinton.
First State National Historical Park
Flight to Freedom on the Underground Railroad: Emeline’s Journey
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
An interactive overview of slavery and abolition in Delaware told through the compelling story of enslaved Emeline Hawkins and her family, and their escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad. This program takes place at the New Castle Court House Museum.
Thomas Stone National Historic Site
History on Trial
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will search for clues to his innocence or guilt and in a mock trial to determine if Thomas Stone was a traitor to Great Britain or an American Patriot for signing the Declaration of Independence. Will your class find him guilty or innocent?
Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park
History Hunters
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This activity trunk is designed to introduce learners to the ways that historians, archeologists, and anthropologists use primary resources to learn about the past. Students will role-play by wearing costumes identifying each as an anthropologist, archeologist, or historian.
Cowpens National Battlefield
History and Technology
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
Historical Characters
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this activity, students will learn about nine key participants in the Battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma and the Siege of Fort Brown. They will discover how the personalities of these key leaders helped them during these clashes and influenced their outcome. Students them compare their own personality traits to discover how they are like or different from these leaders.
Lowell National Historical Park
Do History and Science at the Tsongas Industrial History Center
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Science, History and many more field trip opportunities for your students at Lowell National Historical Park!