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Andersonville National Historic Site

Literature of the Andersonville Prison

• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This lesson plan does not develop specific activities for these works of fiction. Rather it is to provide you with suggestions of grade level appropriate books to recommend for your students and to provide you with copies of little published prisoner poetry for use in your literature class.

Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site

Victorians and Monsters: High School

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Art reflects society and culture. Some of the most famous pieces of literature written during the Victorian Era involved ghosts and monster stories. What was going on in Victorian society that led to the writing of some of the classic Gothic horror stories and how do these stories help us better understand life during the Victorian Era?

Keys Ranch: Where Time Stood Still

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

The lesson could be used in U.S. history, social studies, and geography courses in units on western expansion and settlement, or desert environments. It also could be used in an American Literature course in a unit on the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, particularly his concept of self-reliance. The lesson will help students understand why desert regions were among the last areas settled under the Homestead Act and how settlers in these places survived in a remote environment.

Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site

Field Trip: Longfellow Poetry Workshop

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

As a writer, famous poet Henry Longfellow took inspiration from many things – his children, people who lived in the house before him, his community, and his travels. During this creative 90-minute program, 3rd-5th grade students will explore literary history and use poetry as a tool to express their experiences and inspirations.

Roadside Attractions

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

In this lesson, students will examine five examples of roadside architecture built in the 1920s and 1930s and designed to catch the eye of passing motorists—three represented literalism in advertising, one was intended as a political joke, and one was designed to lure the traveler into spending the night in an "exotic" setting.

Shenandoah National Park

6th Grade | Virtual Shenandoah Watersheds

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Shenandoah National Park lies at the headwaters for three of Virginia’s watersheds. Through virtual exploration and observation of a mountain stream, students will connect local water sources with larger watersheds and better understand the dynamics of stream life and the extensive impacts of water management and usage. 60 minutes

Chapter 13 Lesson Plan: The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963

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

Zora Neale Hurston, U.S. Library of Congress, Reproduction number LC-USZ62-62394 (b&w film copy neg.). Card #2004672085. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004672085/

Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site

Two Poems on the Charles River: Sensory Poetry About Place

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this 2-part activity, 3rd-5th grade students will explore the use of descriptive sensory language to convey a sense of place through poetry. After watching a short video featuring Longfellow’s “To the River Charles” and Yolanda Oliveira’s “Clockwork Stream,” students will analyze descriptive language in poem excerpts, then brainstorm and write their own place-based poem.

Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail

Defending the Chesapeake Region!

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will begin by exploring the definitions of physical features found in the mid-Atlantic region. Students will then identify these features using maps of Baltimore and Washington D.C. After literally tracing the interaction of the geographic characteristics and the Washington, DC conflict on a map, students will be able to make supported predictions about how Baltimore was successfully defended. They will be able to confirm or refute their predictio

Stones River National Battlefield

The Trail of Tears in Middle Tennessee

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

This program will provide a first-hand opportunity for students to walk the original Trail of Tears at Stones River National Battlefield, learn why the Indian Removal Act of 1830 was passed, and the role native Tennessean Andrew Jackson played in the brutal relocation of over 15,000 people.

Martin Van Buren National Historic Site

‘Henry ‘Box’ Brown: An Extraordinary Journey to Freedom’

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

‘Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad,’ is a Caldecott Honor children’s book that sensitively introduces the experience of enslavement through the personal story of Henry ‘Box’ Brown whom successfully obtained his freedom by mailing himself to Philadelphia. The program consists of reading a book and completing thematic activities designed to fulfil national as well as New York State curriculum standards.

Temperature, Clouds and Sun is Weather - oh, my!

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

The program consists of videos, hands-on projects, and observation-based activites. The participant will: Create a cloud headband. Learn about the job of a Meteorologist. Predict tomorrow’s weather. Learn about Martin Van Buren’s year without a Summer. Conduct an experiment to create a cloud in a jar and document the type of cloud by comparing it to a cloud chart. Enjoy some En Plein Air drawing or painting of cloud formations.

Tumacácori National Historical Park

Pancho's Scrapbook

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

Hear the entire story of Tumacácori from someone who witnessed it first hand (or is it "first wing?").