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Showing 848 results for Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor ...
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.
- 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.
Whitman Mission National Historic Site
Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla Homeland Heritage Corridor
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Explore Cayuse culture by listening to primary sources from the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla Homeland Heritage Corridor audio. The CD is currently available through the Tamastslikt Cultural Institute. Hear stories and history from modern day Cayuse people while considering the values that have guided Cayuse people through millennia. Students will need to practice critical listening skills and form their own analysis based on what they hear.
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.
Mesa Verde National Park
Understanding World Heritage
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
What is a world heritage site, why are they selected, and what can my community and I do to help preserve heritage sites in my community and globally?
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.
Gateway Arch National Park
American Heritage Merit Badge
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Explore the history of St. Louis and learn about the important role this river city played in the development of our nation. Afterwards, take a cruise on the Mississippi River, aboard the Gateway Arch Riverboats, and experience the river first-hand. Presentation will take place at the Museum at Gateway Arch National Park and the Gateway Arch Riverboats. The workshop is free. The cost for the Gateway Arch River Cruise TBD.
Gateway Arch National Park
Heritage of the Southwest Traveling Trunk
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Pueblo and Navajo Nations, alongside Spanish settlers, have all greatly influenced the culture and economic development of the Southwest. Experience these three different cultures through the travels of Susan Magoffin, who was one of the first Anglo women on the Santa Fe Trail in the 1800s.
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.
Haleakalā National Park
He Aha Lā He Kūkulu?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Kekahi hale Hawaiʻi ma kahi o Ka Pāka Aupuni Ma Ka Moku O Kīpahulu
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!
Rock Creek Park
Herring Highway
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Visit Rock Creek Park to explore a new fish passage for River Herring.
- 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?
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.