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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.
Natchez Trace Parkway
Read with a Ranger Saltypie
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
As one of the contributing creators of the Natchez Trace, the Choctaw Nation played a pivotal role in Mississippi. They initially occupied the bottom third of the state, before their staged removal to Oklahoma. This program discusses the concepts of family, strength, and resiliency in terminology appropriate for elementary-aged children, while staying true to the concepts of race and removal along the Natchez Trace.
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
LESSON 9- LANGUAGES OF POWER
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will read the text and engage in discussion to examine how language can be a source of power and resistance. They will fill in a summary sheet on the reading.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson introduces students to the Kecoughtan people, an Indigenous Tribe that was located in what is now Hampton, Virginia. Students will examine the idea of "home" by learning about different aspects of life in the Kecoughtan's town.
Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
Culture and Community
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson, students will look at reasons why people immigrate and settle in new places and how that is oftentimes connected to the need for jobs. Students will choose an ethnic community whose members either came to work in and around Rhode Island mills (or a modern-day culture in their town) and create a poster honoring that community's impact using Adobe Spark (if looking for a digital option) or on a piece of paper (if looking for a hands-on option).
Glacier National Park
Stewards of the Land
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students learn about the four main tribes associated with the Glacier area. Then watch videos with tribal leaders and elders talking about their tribe’s relationship to Glacier National Park and why they feel it’s important to take care of the park. Students will reflect/discuss messages in the videos and write a contemporary story that teaches about caring for the Earth. Homework: Student Reading 1: People and Glacier National Park.
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Holiday Treasures — Field Trip Lesson Plans
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
People of many different cultures lived at and around the historic Fort Stanwix. During a Holiday Treasures field trip, your class will become world travelers and meet them as they adventure around the fort. To ensure your the onsite program provides the most enriching experience possible, the park has provided this pre-visit lesson and resource materials for your use in the classroom.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Culture: Languages, Food, and Stereotyping
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Are you animated when you talk? The way we express ourselves is often a combination of culture, family, and individual personality. In this lesson, students will practice reading non-verbal communication cues with peers before reading Josiah Gregg's account of multicultural immersion during the fur trade era. Students will examine his descriptions for cultural stereotype.
Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument
Finding a Home Lesson Plan
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will: describe some of the feelings immigrants faced when deciding on a new settlement in the United States; contrast the benefits and drawbacks of living in a new location when determining a place to live and compare that to the choices immigrants make past and present; and formulate several reasons why immigrants elected to live in selected areas.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson provides a case study of an immigrant community of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and offers a contrast to the typical textbook coverage that emphasizes immigration from eastern and southern Europe to the big cities of the north.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
How did Chinese and Japanese immigrants develop California's industry and culture?