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Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Ohio & Erie Canal: Teacher Resources

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Materials for educators who teach about Ohio history or canals.

Women's Rights National Historical Park

Opening the Gates to Change: the Erie Canal and Woman’s Suffrage

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

In this lesson from the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor, students will analyze the impacts of the Erie Canal on development of 19th century social reform movements, particularly women’s rights. Students will examine historic examples of groups who struggled for equality and will compare past movements to contemporary issues. Students will consider their own capacities as change-makers.

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.

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.

Women's Rights National Historical Park

Women’s Rights are Human Rights

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

In this series of four lesson plans from the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor, students will be able to explore the development and growth of the American women's rights movement. This includes lessons about the Seneca Falls Convention, the Erie Canal, and the later women's rights movement. Developed by educator Lynn Girven of the Rochester City School District.

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.

Women's Rights National Historical Park

Revolutionary Roots: the First Women’s Rights Convention held at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, NY

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

How does a social movement grow? Join a ranger to meet the five organizers of the 1848 Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention and learn more about the Wesleyan Chapel in which it was held. Discover how Faith, Fortune and Fate combined to ignite a movement.

Fort Stanwix National Monument

Through the Oneida Carrying Place: Travel, Trade, and Conflict

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

How did European/Native contact on the New York frontier influence the development of early America? When this virtual tour is complete, students will have a brief overview of European/Native relations in early American history. Including how trade, war, and politics on the New York frontier affected both sides.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Low Bridge, Everybody Down

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Explore the Canal Exploration Center to learn about the history and economic importance of the Ohio & Erie Canal. Learn about this time period as you view a historic canal lock, hike on the Towpath Trail and discover primary sources that provide narratives of life during the canal era.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

How Devastating Can It Be?

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The often dramatic and voluminous eruptions that occur on Kīlauea volcano can wipe out forest far from the actual eruption site. Using this field trip guide, students examine the aftermath of one such eruption on location; using scientific practice and historical evidence to understand the changes caused by the eruption, and how the land in the area is still changing today.

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park

Home on the Canal

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students explore the past during a "Home on the Canal" field trip.

Lake Clark National Park & Preserve

Can You Identify Me?

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

Students will have the opportunity to study and identify fish as really wildlife biologists. They will watch clips taken of salmon swimming up stream through the Silver Salmon Weir in Lake Clark National Park. Their job will be to use their identification cards and see how many salmon they can identify as they swim past. Be careful -- some salmon look awfully similar!

Reasons for the Blackstone Canal

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

Why was the Blackstone Canal built and why did it ultimately fail? How can we apply this historical understanding to current policy decisions on transportation?

Can You Outrun the Wright Flyer?

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

The Wright Flying Machine

Mesa Verde National Park

Can You Solve It? A Scavenger Hunt

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

“Can You Solve It?” is a FIELD TRIP activity designed to engage students in an active exploration of the Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum. It complements a self-guided visit to Spruce Tree House nearby. Activity cards describe fictional scenarios that depict the life of Ancestral Pueblo people in A.D. 1200 to A.D 1275. Much like a scavenger hunt, students must locate objects, solve problems, and answer questions by examining exhibits, making observations, and recording what they find.

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park

A Journey on the C&O Canal

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

Students will read and discuss A Journey on the C&O Canal in order to: 1) Learn why the C&O Canal is an amazing accomplishment in Maryland's history; 2) Learn why the C&O Canal is especially important to Washington County, Maryland; 3) Understand more about the genre of historical fiction and how it can teach us real information with characters who didn't actually live but could have; and 4) Describe what a typical nine-year old canal boy and family were like in the late 1800's.

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park

Reader's Theatre: Challenges on the Canal

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Poor Captain Meyers certainly had a bad day today! NPS/CHOH collection

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

Historical Math and the Blackstone Canal

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

How can math be used to explore the impact of the Blackstone Canal on Worcester?

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Self-Guided Field Trip to Cuyahoga Valley's Station Road Bridge Area

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The Station Road Bridge area is a great place to bring students to see and learn more about Ohio's only national park. From this location, students can see the Cuyahoga River, walk on the historic Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail, and maybe even spot a bald eagle, which are known to nest nearby. Introduce your students to the Cuyahoga Valley through this self-guided field trip.