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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.
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.
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.
Camp Nelson National Monument
Seeking Freedom in The Bluegrass
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
test test
- 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.
Olympic National Park
Freeing the Elwha: "Hatcheries - Saviors or Scourge for Wild Salmon?"
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This activity helps students understand the history and roles that hatcheries serve in sustaining commercial fisheries, native fish populations, and saving endangered fish stocks. They will also do their own research on the pros and cons of hatcheries.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The two main shoulder-fired weapons of the revolution are the musket and rifle. They both have their pros and cons in battle. Students will analyze and compare the parabolic shape of each weapon. They will try and determine which weapon they would wield.
- 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.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Juan's Draft Pick Lesson Plan
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Whether by pulling a wagon, cart, or saddle bag, animals powered the goods to be traded and transferred to their destination. The fur trade era simply could not have taken place without the aid of horses, mules, and oxen. The lesson examines the pros and cons of using these animals as transportation based on their characteristics and biological needs.
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
Fort Necessity National Battlefield
The French and Indian War 1754-1763: How Did The War End? - Unit 5
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This unit teaches the students about how the war ended with the Treaty of Paris, and what the consequences were to the different groups who were involved. Both the American colonists and the American Indians were not involved in the peace treaty. The lesson includes background information and one student activity, “Making Peace.”
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.
George Washington Carver National Monument
George Washington Carver - An Original Conservationist: Alternative Uses for Everyday Materials
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This topic is a focus on alternative uses for source materials and products that can be made with alternative materials. Students will make peanut milk in an effort to understand how foods can be used in different ways to increase nutrition to the consumer. Students will create a pros/cons poster researching products (such as fuel) and comparing traditional source materials (crude oil) with alternative materials (corn or soy-based ethanol).
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
Incident at Harpers Ferry: Slavery and John Brown
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this lesson, students will share their thoughts on slavery, examine how our country dealt with this institution, consider how both pro-slavery elements and abolitionists looked at slavery and why, and learn a little about John Brown’s early life - in particular, his activities out in Kansas in the years 1855 – 1857. Students will then be able to answer the following essential question: What was slavery like in the antebellum United States?
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.