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First State National Historical Park
Politics and Plantation
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Explore the life of John Dickinson and the people whom he interacted with (tenants, enslaved individuals, tradesmen, merchants) by utilizing the mansion, outbuildings and primary resources. This program takes place at the John Dickinson Plantation.
Friendship Hill National Historic Site
The Whiskey Rebellion - A Political Opinion Survey
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Would you have been a rebel , a moderate or a federalist? Students are introduced to the Whiskey Rebellion before the park ranger will ask nine multiple choice questions. Each one of the three answers represents either the rebel, moderate or federalist opinion. So if you were a farmer would you have pay the Whiskey Tax? Choose A) Heck No, B) Well let’s protest, or C) Definitely YES! Find out where you would have stood during this first test of the federal government
John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site
Political Parenthood: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Remembers
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy possessed an acumen for people and the world which she utilized throughout her life. She fostered this passion devotedly in her children, including future president John F. Kennedy. In this lesson, students read her recollections of parenthood, hear her tour of the family home, and compare and contrast her to her husband, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. Students will learn how she shaped her son’s image and examine how historians form multidimensional views of historical figures.
Independence National Historical Park
"Join, or Die" Political Cartoon Activity for Grades 4-6
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this activity, upper elementary students will analyze the "Join, or Die" political cartoon before constructing their own political cartoon.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students examine a primary source document from the National Woman's Party lobbying records and identify differing perspectives on a political issue, the Equal Rights Amendment. They plan their own lobbying approach based on what they learned. Students then identify an issue and design their own campaign for change.
Friendship Hill National Historic Site
Albert Gallatin: A Most Astonishing Man - Gallatin’s Start in Politics - Lesson 1
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Albert Gallatin: A Most Astonishing Man is a teacher’s guide with seven lessons. In this first lesson students are introduced to Gallatin’s political beliefs through a student reading. The student activity has students match words to their definition.
Gateway Arch National Park
Inside Government
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Old Courthouse serves as the backdrop for this program where scouts will learn about local government, past and present, and how they can be active citizens today.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this lesson, students will answer the following essential question: What combination of factors, both natural and manmade, is necessary for healthy river restoration and how does this enhance the sustainability of natural and human communities?
Everglades National Park
“Going… Going… Gone!” Water: 4-6 Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The students will be able to: a) list two of the factors involved in the extinction of small populations, and b) differentiate between an individual organism, a species, and a population.
Everglades National Park
"Going, Going, Gone" Don't Let It Loose: 5-8th Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The students will be able to define the terms native, alien, endangered and extinct; explain the impact of exotic vegetation to natural communities; name at least three native and three exotic species found in South Florida.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
There are many different and varied invasive species, but for this lesson the key points are that the species is (1) not native and (2) causes harm to either the economy or the environment. This activity will allow students to focus on one invasive species and present the information that they find about their species to classmates in a classroom go-around at the end of their research.
Hamilton Grange National Memorial
Go exploring with Flat Ranger
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to: research facts about National Parks present information to the class participate in an individual or group project
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site
Go Underground with Cold War history
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Your class will join a ranger at Launch Control Center Delta-01, 31 feet underground, to explore the Minuteman II system's role as a nuclear deterrent during the Cold War and visit sites rarely seen by civilians while in use, but that nevertheless loomed large on the geo-political landscape.
Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve
Let's Go Whale Watching in Glacier Bay!
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Glacier Bay is home to one of the world's most intriguing marine mammals - the endangered Humpback Whale. Come join a Glacier Bay Park Ranger on an interactive journey to learn more about this endangered species. Students will take a look at how Humpback Whales interact with their environment and what Park Researchers are doing to protect them.
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Geology Lesson 3. Where did the oceans go?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The learner will: • Understand the external forces that aid landscape evolution. • Apply this understanding to the Guadalupe Mountains, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, the Delaware basin area, or your local geography.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. federal housing project, caused by white neighbors' attempt to prevent Black tenants from moving in. American flag next to a sign that reads: "We want white tenants in our white community," directly opposite the housing project. Courtesy of Library of Congress.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Young civil rights demonstrators speaking at a press conference at the Gaston Motel during the Children's Crusade in Birmingham, Alabama. Andrew Young (dressed in overalls) is standing behind them. Photo taken 5/8/1963. Copyright, Alabama Department of Archives and History. Donated by the Alabama Media Group, http://www.alabamamediagroup.com
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Zora Neale Hurston, U.S. Library of Congress, Reproduction number LC-USZ62-62394 (b&w film copy neg.). Card #2004672085. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004672085/
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
A picture of a statue at Kelly Ingram Park called The Four Spirits. This statue honors the lives of the 4 girls who died in the dynamite blast at 16th Street Baptist Church on September 15, 1963. Photo courtesy of the Alabama Tourism Department, Chris Granger (photographer).
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students hold a sleep-in as a form of protest in Flint, Michigan in 1967.