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Cowpens National Battlefield

The Battle of Cowpens: The Journal of James Collins
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

To help students gain skills in understanding a primary (original) historical source, i.e., a journal as it relates to the Battle of Cowpens.

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.

Glacier National Park

Listening to Birds
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will use the sense of hearing to explore bird sounds.

Catoctin Mountain Park

The Blacksmith in Society: Lesson 4 - The Price of Freedom
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

To show students how slaves were utilized and marketed to meet the economic needs of the slave owner. To acquaint students with strategies slaves utilized to gain freedom, i.e., purchase of their time, purchase of family members or self, escape or manumission. To demonstrate the earning potential of a typical 19th century blacksmith. To introduce documentation, written by slaves, describing the working conditions and life-styles of slaves.

Catoctin Mountain Park

The Blacksmith in Society: Lesson 4 - The Price of Freedom Grades 6-8
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

To show students how slaves were utilized and marketed to meet the economic needs of the slave owner. To acquaint students with strategies slaves utilized to gain freedom, i.e., purchase of their time, purchase of family members or self, escape or manumission. To demonstrate the earning potential of a typical 19th century blacksmith. To introduce documentation, written by slaves, describing the working conditions and life-styles of slaves.