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Antietam National Battlefield

The Bloodiest Day in American History -- Hope for Freedom
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will assume the role of war correspondents and gather facts about the battle and President Lincoln's issuance of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation through analysis of primary and secondary sources.

Antietam National Battlefield

Freedom at Antietam
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students will read and evaluate primary and secondary resources to learn about the impact Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation had on African-Americans both enslaved and free and on white Americans.

Discover the Mary Ann Shadd Cary House: A Lightning Lesson from Teaching with Historic Places
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Before the end of legal slavery in the United States, free African Americans migrated to Canada to find greater security and liberty. After the Civil War, some returned to the U.S. to aid emancipated people and rebuild the South. Mary Ann Shadd Cary was a business woman, abolitionist, and suffragist.

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

War Has Been Declared: Middle School Lesson Plan
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students analyze the primary document, the Emancipation Proclamation and how it affected the Civil War and southern states. They work in teams to creatively share learned information from NPS videos about one of the final pushes in the Civil War, the Atlanta Campaign through Georgia. They listen to and draw meaning from soldier and author, Ambrose Bierce.

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

Lesson 3 - RESISTANCE
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This is the third set of lessons in a multi lesson unit. In this unit students journal in the first person as if they are passing through the experience of Enslavement-Resistance-Escape/Emancipation. It is based on the two-cd set Freedom Is Coming: Songs of Freedom, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad, available from the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, 916 North Peters Street, New Orleans, La, 70116. www.nps.gov/jazz

Hampton National Historic Site

Choosing a Path in Freedom
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Sketch of Hampton Plantation.

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

Lesson 2 - HOPE
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This is the second set of lessons in a multi lesson unit. It focuses on the idea of HOPE under OPPRESSION. In this unit students journal in the first person as if they are passing through the experience of Enslavement-Resistance-Escape/Emancipation. It is based on the two-cd set Freedom Is Coming: Songs of Freedom, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad, available from the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, 916 North Peters Street, New Orleans, La, 70116. www.nps.gov/jazz

Stones River National Battlefield

Stones River National Battlefield - Interactive Artillery Program - Load, Ready, Fire!
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will get a hands-on history experience while learning the importance of teamwork.

Stones River National Battlefield

Stones River National Battlefield Museum Scavenger Hunt
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Explore the Battle of Stones River and its place in the Civil War by searching for answers in the park's museum exhibits. We have scavenger hunt quizzes suitable for 3rd through 8th grade students.

Stones River National Battlefield

Stones River National Battlefield History Hike
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Forward March! Join a park ranger for half-mile walk through the battlefield and learn about the Battle of Stones River on the ground where men in blue and gray struggled decades ago.

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park

Prized Possession: Escaping on the Underground Railroad Pre-Visit Activity
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

15 years before slavery was abolished in the United States and a little more than 100 miles from the safety of Pennsylvania, Harriet Tubman operated on the edge of freedom. Born in Dorchester County, Maryland, in 1822, Tubman emancipated herself from slavery in 1849 at age 27. She earned the nickname “Moses” for risking her own life about 13 times to guide more than 70 people—many of them family and friends she had left behind—from lives in slavery to new lives in freedom.

Booker T Washington National Monument

War on the Home Front: Post Visit Activities
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The Civil War and its outcomes were life-changing events for all the people, both free and enslaved, who were associated with the Burroughs Plantation from 1850 – 1865.

Salem Maritime National Historic Site

Enslaved Women & Revolutionary Resistance
  • Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students use primary sources and historical knowledge to explain how enslaved women resisted slavery in the Revolutionary Era.

Natchez Trace Parkway

Read with a Ranger If You Were a Kid During the Civil War
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Are your early elementary students interested in history and the Natchez Trace? This program employs a story of two friends, a boy and a girl, to teach young people about the injustices which occurred during the Civil War. This program also ties these themes to the Natchez Trace and its history during the Civil War and the role the Natchez Trace played in preserving slavery.

Salem Maritime National Historic Site

Freedom for All? (High School)
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

In this lesson, high school students analyze primary sources to learn about the lives of two formerly enslaved people who were part of the first generation of freed people in Massachusetts.

Salem Maritime National Historic Site

Quest for Omitted History: Part 2
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In part 2 of this 3-part lesson plan, students engage with sources that focus on the life of an enslaved and later freed Salem man of African descent.

Booker T Washington National Monument

War on the Home Front: Civil War Reading Passage with Graphic Organizer
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The Civil War and its outcomes were life-changing events for all the people, both free and enslaved, who were associated with the Burroughs Plantation from 1850 – 1865. Students will learn about: •Life on a piedmont Virginia, slaveholding tobacco farm •National debate on slavery/Differences between North and South •Why the war was fought •How the enslaved and their owners reacted to the war •How each group was affected after the war

Fort Raleigh National Historic Site

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

After the Civil War battle on Roanoke Island African Americans find a haven from slavery. Through education and freedom they get their first tastes of independence.

Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park

History and Memory: Contrasting the Civil War South in Film and Primary Documents
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

How do different forms of media impact our understanding of slavery and the Civil War?

Salem Maritime National Historic Site

Slavery & the Declaration of Independence
  • Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

The first printing of the Declaration of Independence in Salem appeared next to advertisements for escaped and for sale enslaved people. Students use evidence from the document and historical knowledge to explore the meaning of freedom.