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Fort Scott National Historic Site
Bleeding Kansas
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Travel trunk containing math activities, music activities, and science activities relating to the Bleeding Kansas period.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Bleeding Kansas - Sparks of War
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The Bleeding Kansas era was a chaotic era of Fort Scott history. Passions flared on all sides of the political spectrum.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Chaos in Early Kansas Elections
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
People of Kansas Territory could decide by popular vote whether or not to have slavery or not when they entered the Union. Both sides sent settlers to Kansas to sway the outcome of this decision. Chaos ensued.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Your Day in Court: Bleeding Kansas Courtroom Program
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Is it fair to make decisions based on biased laws? This program recreates a court case that was tried at Fort Scott in the 1850s, The issue involved a land squabble between two men on opposite sides of the political spectrum. The court was left to decide the issue based on territorial law that favored the proslavery side based on the fact that proslavery men held the majority in the territorial legislature and decided territorial law in their favor.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
1st Kansas Colored Infantry 5th & 6th Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Statue of African American Civil War Soldier
Fort Scott National Historic Site
1st Kansas Colored Infantry, 3rd & 4th Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Statue of African American soldier in Civil War uniform.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
1st Kansas Colored Infantry 7th & 8th Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Statue of African American Civil War soldier
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Scenes from 1858: Fort Scott's Role in Bleeding Kansas
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In 1858, Fort Scott was the scene of threats, drama, and violence as feuding parties clashed over the issues of freedom, slavery and property rights. People with strong views from all perspectives on the slavery issues clashed at Fort Scott. in many cases, people weren't fighting about slavery, but for their own freedom, as rights, in some cases, were limited by the side in power. In this lesson, students will examine how tensions escalated and discuss what can be done to prevent violence.
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Ko Kākou Mau Hoaloha i ka Ulu Lā‘au: “Our Friends in the Forest”
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Using the powers of observation, students learn the importance of our native forest and trees to humans in every day life.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Border Conflict 7th & 8th Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Bleeding Kansas political cartoon.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Border Conflict 5th & 6th grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Bleeding Kansas political cartoon.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Border Conflict 3rd & 4th Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Bleeding Kansas political cartoon.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Democracy Run Wild: Distance Learning Program
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
During Bleeding Kansas, conflicts at the ballot box, in the courts, and in the halls of government divided a town, a territory and an entire nation as people from all sides of the spectrum joined in a struggle for freedom in Kansas Territory.
Fort Larned National Historic Site
El Hombre
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Juan travels with his father from Santa Fe to Hays, Kansas, helping with the trade caravan along the way.
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
Santa Fe National Historic Trail
Trading on the Santa Fe Trail
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Overview: Kansas Historical Society offers a highly interactive exploration of life and culture on the trail through the use of a traveling resource trunk. The trunk provides educators with a variety of primary source documents, historical artifacts and photographs. The lessons focus on Kansas and United States history; Most lessons require the physical use of the trunk items.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Sweep Through History
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The purpose of this program is to acquaint the students with life at Fort Scott during the primary eras during the site's history: Westward Expansion, Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War.
Haleakalā National Park
ʻĀhinahina Haleakalā
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Eia ihola ke kiʻi o nā ʻĀhinahina ma Haleakalā. Akāka ke kiʻi o ka ʻĀhinahina mākua.
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
Incident at Harpers Ferry: Slavery and John Brown
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this lesson, students will share their thoughts on slavery, examine how our country dealt with this institution, consider how both pro-slavery elements and abolitionists looked at slavery and why, and learn a little about John Brown’s early life - in particular, his activities out in Kansas in the years 1855 – 1857. Students will then be able to answer the following essential question: What was slavery like in the antebellum United States?