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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.

Levitating Ping Pong Balls
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

How does an airplane get in the air? In this in-classroom lesson plan, students will explore one of forces of flight by constructing and using a simple device to demonstrate lift. Subject: Science. Grades: 3rd-5th.

Cowpens National Battlefield

STEM Musket Ball Challenge
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

lead musket ball

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.

"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,

"The Honor of Your Company is Requested": Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Ball at the Patent Office (Teaching with Historic Places)
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This lesson plan explores the Patent Office building, the site of President Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural ball.

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

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.

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.

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.

Glacier National Park

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

The classic “Ball of yarn” web activity, combined with a “Who am I?” quiz game – about the alpine and subalpine prime-time players. Grades: 7 – 12

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.

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site

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

Ideal for grades pre-K through six. This trunk contains various toys popular in the late 19th century. These include: marbles, tops, ball-in-cup games, slates, hoop and stick and many others. A teachers' guide provides more information and instructions.

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

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.

Fort Stanwix National Monument

My New Home On-Site Education Program
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Hands-on learning stations will introduce students to the lives of the children who followed their soldier fathers during the war.

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

Problems and Perspectives (Grades 9-12) Carl Sandburg Home NHS
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students will look at a social issue (child labor) from multiple perspectives, research points of view, and then present that perspective through a “town hall’ type meeting with classmates