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Showing 980 results for Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine ...
Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
Fort McHenry as a Prison: A Soldier's Life
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will use primary source documents to understand the activities and living conditions of soldiers garrisoned at Fort McHenry during the Civil War.
Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
Long May It Wave
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
To support teachers in Maryland and across the United States as they commemorate the Bicentennial of the War of 1812 in their classrooms, the Friends of Fort McHenry developed a national curriculum on the War of 1812 and Fort McHenry for grades 4 through 8 in partnership with the National Park Service.
Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
Fort McHenry Scavenger Hunt| K-12
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This self-guided activity helps students to explore Fort McHenry NM&HS and learn about its stories and resources by completing a scavenger hunt.
Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
Maryland's Role
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The guide was developed by the City of Baltimore's War of 1812 Bicentennial Education Committee with the financial and production support of the American Flag Foundation, the Baltimore National Heritage Area, the National Park Service's Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail, the Friends of Fort McHenry, the Maryland Historical Society, and the Maryland Humanities Council.
Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
“The Rockets’ Red Glare”: Francis Scott Key and the Bombardment of Fort McHenry
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Few people remember the War of 1812 today, but the poem it inspired, almost immediately set to music as "The Star Spangled Banner," has become the national anthem of the United States and a potent source of inspiration and community for Americans in times of crisis.
Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
The War of 1812 - Baltimore's Role
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will read primary and secondary source documents to identify the actions of the citizens in the defense of Baltimore during the War of 1812.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn about Fort McHenry during the War of 1812.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson offers students the opportunity to explore different perspectives on the decision to declare war in 1812, consider the issues at hand, and formulate their own position on what they have learned.
Governors Island National Monument
Fort Jay Historic Structure Report
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This Historic Structure Report, prepared by Barbara Yocum for the National Park Service's Historic Architecture program, provides a comprehensive timeline of the structures of Fort Jay. Please contact the park to obtain a copy of the report.
Tuzigoot National Monument
History Detective Scavenger Hunt at Tuzigoot National Monument
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
When you bring your students to Tuzigoot National Monument for a field trip, engage them on the main Pueblo trail with this guidebook. They'll be History Detectives as they are guided along the trail, learning about the prehistoric Sinagua who lived here 600 years ago.
Montezuma Castle National Monument
A Past Preserved in Stone: A History of Montezuma Castle National Monument
- Type: Primary Sources ... Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Want to know the indepth story of Montezuma Castle over the last 100 years? This is the book for you!
African Burial Ground National Monument
Discover the African Burial Ground National Monument: A Lightning Lesson from Teaching with Historic Places
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Identify ways people memorialized the dead at the “Negros Buriel Ground” in colonial New York and ways people memorialized the African Burial Ground National Monument.
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
On this field trip to either C&O Canal National Historical Park or the George Washington Memorial Parkway, students will conduct a field study activity, to identify some of the ways human impacts affect organisms that live in the Potomac and assess the human impact on a 20-meter stretch of trail in the park.
Andersonville National Historic Site
Interview a Monument: Exploring the Monuments of Andersonville National Cemetery
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will learn how survivors of Andersonville and other groups memorialized Andersonville after the Civil War. Students will examine how the development of monuments in Andersonville National Cemetery reflected the development of the United States from 1890-1920.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn about one of the nation's most important conservation laws--the Antiquities Act of 1906--and how its passage preserved important cultural sites such as Tonto National Monument, which preserves remnants of the Salado culture prior to European contact.
Fort Donelson National Battlefield
Fortifications
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Earthen fortifications offered protection from enemy forces. This watercolor shows both the size of Fort Donelson NB and its proximity to the Cumberland River.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Library of Congress collection, soldier rendition of Fort Donelson, watercolor
Petroglyph National Monument
Traveling Trunks at Petroglyph National Monument
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Bring the park into your classroom today!! Petroglyph National Monument offers FIVE traveling trunks for your convenience. These trunks can be adapted for various grade levels.
Timpanogos Cave National Monument
Utah History in National Parks
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
How do National Parks reflect the history of Utah? Students will discuss the roles of National Parks both in the United States of America and Utah. They will then explore various parks in Utah to discover how they tell our state’s history.
Weir Farm National Historical Park
Virtual Field Trip to Weir Farm National Historical Park
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Through videos and 3-D virtual tours, students are introduced to the artists who lived and created art at Weir Farm. They are encouraged to look closely at paintings and painting sites to discover artistic inspiration.