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Showing 1,889 results for Elections in early America ...
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Chaos in Early Kansas Elections
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
People of Kansas Territory could decide by popular vote whether or not to have slavery or not when they entered the Union. Both sides sent settlers to Kansas to sway the outcome of this decision. Chaos ensued.
Lincoln Home National Historic Site
Election Year 1860
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
How can artifacts help us understand a person or time period? Join us from your home or classroom to learn how artifacts help keep the Lincolns story alive!
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this program, students learn how the 1844 Presidential election influenced the U.S.-Mexican War. In addition, students will better understand the importance of voting.
Fort Larned National Historic Site
El Hombre
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Juan travels with his father from Santa Fe to Hays, Kansas, helping with the trade caravan along the way.
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Black Resistance through Election Day
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson, students analyze primary sources to learn about the history of Black Election Day and the ways enslaved people resisted their enslavement in Massachusetts.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Understand the "servant" experience in early 20th-century America, as well as the pros and cons for women working in factories versus domestic service.
Niobrara National Scenic River
Early Birding
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson is designed to introduce Middle School level students to basic bird identification to some of the common, and a few rare but easily identified,birds and waterfowl found along and around the Niobrara National Scenic River.
Flight 93 National Memorial
America Attacked
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Program Objectives: Students will be able to: 1. Name three terrorist and their role in the September 11, 2001, attack 2. List two events leading up to the attacks on September 11 that had an impact on national security 3. Name the four targets and potential targets selected by the terrorist on September 11
Flight 93 National Memorial
Attack on America
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students visit the Memorial Plaza and learn of the events of September 11, 2001
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Symbols of America
- Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students will learn what a symbol is and why symbols are used. They will learn symbols of both America and of South Dakota, as well as the significance behind these symbols.
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
When War Hits Home: The Ohio & Erie Canal Town of Peninsula, and the Civil War Election of 1864
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
By investigating how the Civil War impacted one small canal town in Ohio, students find connections to the history of their own hometown, which may help them look to the future.
Weir Farm National Historical Park
Weir Am I? (Grades 1-4)
- Type: Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
A variety of classroom activities that can be done as stand-alone lessons or as a Pre-Visit/ Post-Visit lessons with a visit to Weir Farm.
Yellowstone National Park
Who Am I? (A lesson on animals and their habitats)
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Each student researches an animal that inhabits Yellowstone National Park and prepares an Animal Profile Card with ten facts about each animal. Students share Profile Cards and attempt to identify the unidentified animals.
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
Housing: Early Homes
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will gain deeper understanding about earth lodge construction by visualizing life in a Hidatsa village through guided imagery and by viewing the building an earth lodge video. They will have an opportunity to design and build their own replica earth lodge.
Cowpens National Battlefield
Early American Activities
- Type: Science Labs
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Roger Williams National Memorial
A Key Into the Language Of America
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson plan introduces students to "A Key into the Language of America" and provides a glimpse into the complex relationship Williams had with the Narragansett and gives a first-hand account of 17th-century native culture. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to answer the question: How did Roger Williams’ A Key into the Language of America foster understanding of daily life, work, and relationships between the Native Americans and colonists?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This lesson will present the diversity of animals found along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, and will help students understand what we can learn about animals from the way they live and move.
Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve
Slavery Systems in America, a classroom lesson
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will use Kingsley Plantation as a setting to explore how slave systems in Florida varied under the Spanish, British, and American rule.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Consider how simple, functional cabins, like those built by the Finns in Idaho, became symbols in American politics and folklore.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Have students describe the life of the Hidatsa and Mandan groups in the early 19th century and explain how the villagers shaped their environment and adapted to it; and discover American Indian groups who once lived in their region and compare their cultures to the Hidatsa and Mandan peoples.