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Andersonville National Historic Site
Contributions relating to the causation and prevention of disease, and to camp diseases; together with a report of the diseases, etc., among the prisoners at Andersonville, Ga
- Type: Primary Sources
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This report by the non-governmental U.S Sanitary Commission is devoted to a series of medical issues pertaining to the Civil War. A third of the book is devoted to Andersonville, written by Confederate surgeon Joseph Jones, M.D. Portions of his essay are derived from the report he attempted to suppress at the end of the war.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Today the cotton gin is quiet. The commissary, where sharecroppers could buy supplies, looks as if someone just closed and locked the door. Hoes, oxen yoke, and ploughs rust in the blacksmith's shop. What froze this place in time? What clues tell the history of this place? Let's begin the story.
Acadia National Park
Poetry in Nature
- Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Once students have made their observations, instruct them to write a poem about them. You can have them use any form of poetry, or you can instruct them to focus on a specific form (haiku, five senses, etc.) or element (sound device, imagery, etc.).
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
How can sports and popular culture influence public opinion? Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball to changes hearts, minds, and American law.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Follow Frederick Douglass on his journey from life as a slave to that of a respected statesman and investigate how three homes reflect the different phases of his life.
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.
Glacier National Park
Model Glaciers
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Using river trough from Unit 2, students place/move frozen ice blocks with gravel/rocks in them through the sand to form glacially carved valleys, cirques, tarn lakes, etc.
Andrew Johnson National Historic Site
Andrew Johnson Homestead Virtual Field Trip
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Welcome to Andrew Johnson National Historic Site’s virtual field trip! When students visit the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site, they encounter hundreds of 19th-Century artifacts that once belonged to Andrew Johnson and his family. This program was designed for teachers and students who are unable to visit the site in person. We want to provide this virtual opportunity to see and learn about the home of the 17th President in Greeneville, Tennessee as you would on a field trip to the site.
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
“It’s Up, and It’s Good!” Negro League Baseball and its Connection to Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson will explore the powerful relationship between the National Council of Negro Women and Negro League Baseball. Students will discuss the important contributions, struggles and triumphs players experienced. Students will also understand the meaning of patriotism, and observe documented oral histories while using multi-media devices (Photo Story, PowerPoint, VoiceThread etc.) to demonstrate learning.
African Burial Ground National Monument
Discover the African Burial Ground National Monument: A Lightning Lesson from Teaching with Historic Places
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Identify ways people memorialized the dead at the “Negros Buriel Ground” in colonial New York and ways people memorialized the African Burial Ground National Monument.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn how people in Selma, Alabama, and national civil rights organizations worked together to end the unconstitutional denial of voting rights to African Americans in the South.
Haleakalā National Park
Who Needs Who?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this activity students will become a piece of the environment (nectar, bird, insect, plant, etc.). Through a game, they will come to understand how everything in nature is interconnected, and how changes in the physical environment can have either a negative or positive impact on the survival of a species. It also illustrates that an effect on one factor can influence all the others. The activity concludes with a message of hope and how people can help to protect biodiversity.
George Washington Carver National Monument
George Washington Carver - An Original Conservationist: Sharing the Soil
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
For this activity students will create a brochure for farmers. The brochure will describe the needs each crop has (soil type, weather, etc.), the impact of the crop on the soil and the different ways the crop can be used. Students will focus on cotton, tobacco, peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes. The goal is for students to understand the impact cash crops may have on soil quality and how farmers can replenish their soil through crop rotation.
Grand Teton National Park
Mountain Weather
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Mountain weather is a force that climbers and outdoor enthusiasts need to understand and predict in order to plan safely and make good decisions in the backcountry. Use this lesson to help students understand weather patterns and processes and learn field prediction.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Trading Post Labor
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail produced a collection of observations that include the multicultural nature of labor in the southwestern borderlands in the 1840s. This lesson offers an opportunity to analyze the Bent, St. Vrain, & Company's dependence on skilled labor from various classes, ethnicities, and national origins.
Martin Van Buren National Historic Site
"Temperature, Clouds and Sun is Weather - Oh, My!"
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
The program consists of videos, hands-on projects, and observation-based activites. The participant will: Create a cloud headband. Learn about the job of a Meteorologist. Predict tomorrow’s weather. Learn about Martin Van Buren’s year without a Summer. Conduct an experiment to create a cloud in a jar and document the type of cloud by comparing it to a cloud chart. Enjoy some En Plein Air drawing or painting of cloud formations.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Flora on the Plains: Grasses, Trees, and Agriculture
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Follow alongside a trading caravan with Josiah Gregg to observe how plant life contributed to and threatened survival in the southern Great Plains. Consider how human impact and responsible management of natural resources was necessary during the fur trade era just as it is today.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This virtual field trip can be completed as a whole class or individual if your school has student devices (Google Earth can be used on most devices, including cellphones). The information can be found on the attached Google Slides and Microsoft PowerPoint Slides. The presentation will explore the biomes and climates that the Lewis and Clark expedition traveled through during their exploration of the North American Interior. The slides include short videos (Hyperlinked to YouTube), Google Earth
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Optical Illusions and Mirage on the Great Plains
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Are your eyes playing tricks on you or is it the light? This lesson explores the properties of light and the environmental conditions which cause mirages. Students will examine some famous optical illusions before reading Josiah Gregg's experience with them when traveling across the Great Plains in the 1830s and 1840s.