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The Ohio & Erie Canal: Catalyst of Economic Development for Ohio

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

Assess the importance of America's early canal system and its economic and social effects.

Catoctin Mountain Park

The Blacksmith in Society: Lesson 1- Economic Incentives for Industrial Development

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

After comparing incentives offered to an 18th century blacksmith with incentives offered to modern corporations, students will understand how economic strategies are used to encourage industrial and community growth.

Glacier National Park

Eco-enrichers

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

Students evaluate the importance of soil as well as plant and animal matter as contributors to soil through observing earthworms decompose composting materials.

Maggie L Walker National Historic Site

“Nickels to Dollars”: Maggie L. Walker's Quest for African American Economic Empowerment

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

Students will pretend to go back in time to 1903 when Maggie Walker chartered the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank. They will use a 3D replica of, or the computer aided models of, the 1927 Maggie Walker collection bank to learn about the economic tools African Americans used to resist discrimination and uplift their communities during the Jim Crow era. Este plan de clase con actividades incluido también está disponible en español.

Gateway Arch National Park

ECO Rangers Summer Camp

• Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Explore what lives in our lakes, ponds, streams, forests, and prairie lands. Do the same macros live in the creeks and ponds? What birds and animals live in the prairie lands vs woodlands? Fish the lakes and rivers, fine tune your archery marksmanship, net for macros in ponds, and search for the birds in our Missouri’s public lands.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Economy and Trade: Pre 1845

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

In Economy and Trade: Pre 1845, students will learn about trade relations between tribes prior to European contact and how their experience prepared them for success in dealing with explorers and traders after European contact by re-enacting trading as it was practiced at Knife River Villages.

Salem Maritime National Historic Site

How did slavery connect Salem to a global economy?

• Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students examine two primary source documents connected to Salem merchant, Richard Derby, to explore connections between slavery in Salem, maritime trade, and a global economy.

Everglades National Park

"Alligator Hole Eco-Drama" Wildlife: 4-6th Grade

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

Our "Wildlife" unit is broken into 16 lesson plans, each taking from 20 minutes to several class periods to complete, and targeted mainly at 4th-6th grade students. A class needn't complete every lesson in the unit, though some lessons do refer to one another and are better done in sequence. However, each lesson comes with its own set of objectives and resources.

Salem Maritime National Historic Site

How did the slavery economy contribute to the American Revolution in Salem?

• Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students examine two primary source documents connected to Richard Derby of Salem and complete a graphic organizer to explore the economic forces that contributed to the American Revolution in Essex County.

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

Girl Scouts Cadette Eco Trekker at Carl Sandburg Home NHS

• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Follow this Girl Scouts Cadette "Eco Trekker" badge lesson to plan a visit with your scouts at Carl Sandburg Home NHS. Girls will learn about invasive species, leave no trace and how to practice eco friendly trekking while enjoying the outdoors.

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park

The Building of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

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

Assess the importance of America's early canal system and its economic and social effects

Petroglyph National Monument

How the Early Railroads Changed New Mexico

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

This is a lesson that can be used to teach geography, history and economics using pictures, maps and scale models.

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha: "Salmon Farming - A Potential but Not Ideal Solution"

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

In this activity, students will learn about the economic and ecological values and costs of salmon farming, and draft a paper addressing the decline of the Pacific Salmon.

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.

Shenandoah National Park

The Spirit of the Mountain

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

This interactive program connects the social, economic, geographic, and political history of the 1920s and 1930s with the establishment of Shenandoah National Park and the people whose lives were impacted.

Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site

Waste Not: 4th - 5th Grade

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Bison were an essential animal for many plains tribes. This lesson explores the many uses tribal people had for the bison as well as economic and cultural significance.

Shenandoah National Park

CCC: A New Deal to Rebuild a Nation

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

This interactive program tells the story of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the context of the social, political, and economic history of the 1920s and 1930s using real places, real people, and real stories in Shenandoah National Park.

Catoctin Mountain Park

The Blacksmith in Society Lesson Plan #5 - Revitalizing the Spirit

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

To illustrate how the use, conservation or depletion of natural resources affects an area. To show how people "return to nature" hoping to find inspiration that will help them cope with the stresses of their everyday lives. To tell how Franklin Roosevelt's economic recovery programs jumpstarted the American economy and left a legacy for future generations.

Catoctin Mountain Park

The Blacksmith in Society Lesson Plan #5 - Revitalizing the Spirit

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

To illustrate how the use, conservation or depletion of natural resources affects an area. To show how people "return to nature" hoping to find inspiration that will help them cope with the stresses of their everyday lives. To tell how Franklin Roosevelt's economic recovery programs jumpstarted the American economy and left a legacy for future generations.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Ohio & Erie Canal Virtual Program - Grades 3-5

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

This program explores Ohio’s canal era. Students will learn about the history and economic importance of the Ohio & Erie Canal. Through primary and secondary sources, they will learn how and why the canal was used and why it eventually became obsolete.