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Herbert Hoover: Iowa Farm Boy and World Humanitarian

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

Consider the impact of Hoover's boyhood years on his desire to help starving children as the administrator of the Belgian Relief Commission during World War I.

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

What Is That Used For?

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

Students form discussion groups and study images of everyday household items found in the Herbert Hoover Birthplace Cottage.

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

Hoover-Ball

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Hooverball is a strenuous team sport and a great addition to a physical education curriculum or as an extra-curricular club activity.

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

From Iowa To The World

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

How did daily life of a rural community in the 1870s and 1880s compare to our own daily lives? Did events of Herbert Hoover's childhood motivate his career in public service? What did Herbert Hoover do to be recognized as a good citizen of the world? A visit to historic buildings from President Hoover's childhood helps answer these questions.

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

Lessons Learned In West Branch

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

How did Herbert Hoover’s early years in 19th century West Branch influence his character? Which character traits did he learn that made him a leader? Where do we get our own skills for success? A visit to historic buildings from President Hoover's childhood helps answer these questions.

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

Tallgrass Prairie: A Multidisciplinary Curriculum

• Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Prepare students for a visit to the 81-acre tallgrass prairie at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site. Activities strenghten skills in observation, analysis, and interpretation in the field and in the classroom. Activities are written with middle school students in mind, but may be appropriate for other ages.

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

Wants Versus Needs in a Changing World

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

As they tour Herbert Hoover's tiny birthplace, students make a list of the Hoover’s material possessions and compare the family’s wants and needs with their own.

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

Sound Intensity & Loudness

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students learn how to measure intensity and loudness, the difference between sound and noise, and when a sound is considered noise pollution.

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

Investigating Tallgrass Prairie Plants

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

By growing and comparing plants, students discover how prairie plants differ from other plants and how prairie plants and the environment benefit from these differences.

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

National Park Fair: Kids Teaching Kids about Our National Parks

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

Inspire students and their families to discover America's best idea: our national parks. Students research a national park and create a visitor center display with souvenir items to share with their classmates.

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

Chemistry of the Blacksmith's Forge

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students research four questions and present their findings to each other. One class is needed for the research and one to two classes are needed for the presentations. Students can do additional research as homework, so allow a couple days between the initial research and presentations.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Herbs and Medicinals in the Backcountry

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

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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

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.

"The Greatest Dam in the World": Building Hoover Dam (Teaching with Historic Places)

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

Learn about the Hoover Dam, located where the Colorado River forms the boundary between the states of Nevada and Arizona,

Shenandoah National Park

A Retreat Fit for a President

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This interactive program uses Rapidan Camp, President Herbert Hoover’s summer retreat, to explore the events leading up to the Great Depression and how President Hoover's personal and political philosophies defined his approach to the crisis.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site

"The Measure of a Man's Success in Life is Not the Money He's Made. It's the Kind of Family He Has Raised.": Separating the Myth from Reality in the Life and Times of Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr.

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

This lesson plan allows high school students to identify who Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. was and his role in United States history. Students will examine Kennedy family photographs, letters from Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. to his family, and quotes from Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., to form their understanding of his influence. Students will evaluate the ways in which historians form complex understandings of controversial historical figures.

Fort Larned National Historic Site

No Pot of Gold

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Journey downt he Santa Fe Trail with seven-year-old Marion Sloan as she, her mother and her brother head to California.

Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site

First Lady of the World: Eleanor Roosevelt at Val-Kill

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

Examine how Roosevelt's use of her at home reflected her interest in human rights and her leadership in creating the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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.