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Showing 13 results for Inaugural ball ...
- 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
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.
- 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
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.
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
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
Victorian Architecture Trunk
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Recommended for sixth grade and up. This trunk contains samples of architectural features found in many 19th century homes. Plaster models, textured wallpaper, mounted pictures; slides, games and other activities are included in the trunk along with a teachers' guide.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
Victorian Clothing Trunks
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Actually two trunks, one for boys and one for girls, these trunks contain clothing made to fit approximately fourth and fifth graders. Items are reproduction clothing and accessories from the late 19th and early 20th centuries fit for dress-up or trying on, and each trunk contains at least one complete outfit with several extra accessories or variety. Texts are included that outline clothing styles during the Victorian Era.
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
Sitka National Historical Park
Exploring Conflict and Colonization: The Sitka Battles of 1802 and 1804
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
For nearly 70 years, the Russian American company oversaw a colonial empire from their seat of power in the Russian colony of New Archangel- but founding a colony on the native land of the Tlingit people was no simple task. In this robust, place-based distance learning program, come the Battles of 1802 and 1804 that occurred right here in Sitka, while discussing important historical themes like conflict, colonization, and the rights of indigenous peoples.
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
Owl Pellets from the Past
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The students will develop an understanding of animal identification through bones and bone fragments found in their owl pellets and how they are connected to fossils found at the Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument.
Cowpens National Battlefield
Unsung Patriots: African-Americans at the Battle of Cowpens
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
What important role did African-Americans have in the Battle of Cowpens?