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Klondike Gold Rush - Seattle Unit National Historical Park
Seattle, Gateway to the Gold Fields
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Contact us for information to plan your field trip!
Gateway Arch National Park
Fun and Games at the Gateway Arch
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Learn about the lives and pastimes of nineteenth century boys and girls. Takes place at the Museum at the Gateway Arch.
Gateway Arch National Park
Architecture of the Gateway Arch Traveling Trunk
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Gateway Arch is the nation's tallest monument. Completed in 1965, it commemorates the history of westward expansion and the people who traveled to, lived in, and experienced life in the American West. Students will explore the design, materials, and people involved in the construction of the 630-foot, stainless steel monument.
Gateway Arch National Park
Building the Dream: Constructing the Gateway Arch
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Why is the Gateway Arch here? What does this landmark represent? Step back in time and learn how the tallest national monument in the United States was conceived, designed, and built.
Gateway Arch National Park
General Museum Tour at the Gateway Arch
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The general tour of the museum at the Gateway Arch introduces students to the larger themes of westward expansion and the growth of the United States. Students work with a park ranger who guides them through selected galleries which tell the story of westward expansion and the building of the Gateway Arch.
Gateway Arch National Park
A Virtual Tour of the Gateway Arch Museum
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Have your class meet virtually with a park ranger to take a tour of the museum at the Gateway Arch and learn about the ways the museum provides a nuanced interpretation of westward expansion and U.S. history.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn how these remote passes in the mountains influenced the course of the westward expansion of the United States.
Chaco Culture National Historical Park
Scouts and Shovels: “Crashing the Gates” with Bertha Dutton
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Bertha Dutton was one of the first female archeologists who worked with the National Park Service. This lesson plan emphasizes her original methodologies and why her work was so important to both women’s history and cultural resource preservation. Este plan de clase con actividades incluido también está disponible en español.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Ann Axtell was a prominent archeologist, artist, and author. Ann spent much of her time recording and painting architecture, petroglyphs and pictographs, landscapes, and expedition work. Many of her recording methods are still in use today by modern archeologists. Este plan de clase con actividades incluido también está disponible en español.
Gateway Arch National Park
Building the Dream: Constructing the Gateway Arch (Distance Learning)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The process of creating the Gateway Arch took many, many years before its completion in 1966. Today, the National Park Service manages the Gateway Arch and educates people about the architectural significance of this structure. In this program, students will be taken back to the 1960s to learn about the process of conceiving, designing, and building the tallest national monument in the United States.
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
Students will learn about the challenges that 19th- and 20th-century women faced when choosing a career path. They will then read a biography of Florence Hawley Ellis, one of the earliest American women to break into the male-dominated field of archeology. Este plan de clase con actividades incluido también está disponible en español.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The lesson can be used in teaching units on late 19th-century urban expansion, especially as influenced by immigration and the Industrial Revolution. It also could form the core of an interdisciplinary unit when used in conjunction with lessons on the Romantic and Transcendentalist movements and lessons on botany.
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 National Recreation Area
History of Floyd Bennett Field
- Type: Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This guide will help teachers introduce the ways in which technology and time affect an area (i.e. a neighborhood), using Floyd Bennett Field as an example.
Gateway National Recreation Area
Diverse Contributors to the Legacy of Floyd Bennett Field
- Type: Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This Teacher's Guide explores the little-known stories of the African American and Latino pilots who were stationed at Floyd Bennett Field during WWII.
Gateway National Recreation Area
Clean Shore Corps
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will perform a trash survey in their own neighborhood, then one at the beach at Gateway. After comparing the results of the two surveys, students will identify which trash is the most prevalent, and come up with ways to reduce the trash. Rangers will provide lesson plans and equipment for the beach pick up. Please note that this program requires transportation between two points within the park.
Gateway Arch National Park
ArtCH Camp Summer Camp
- Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Explore the Gateway Arch National Park like never before! Students will visit the Gateway Arch learn how to draw, paint, sculpt, and build with professional artists to create their own masterpieces.
Gateway National Recreation Area
Commercial Travel: Then and Now
- Type: Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Teachers can use this reference guide to help students evaluate sources and develop a hypothesis about flying as well as its technology and effect on Floyd Bennett Field. A field trip to Floyd Bennett Field would be an extension to the lessons and bring into focus the present.
Gateway Arch National Park
Bear Cubs: Paws for Action
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Learn about the history and culture of the Osage Indians of the woodland areas of the Mississippi Valley in the Museum at Gateway Arch National Park Fulfills requirements 1, 2, and 4