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Showing 1,113 results for Living History ...
Nocturnal Lives
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will understand the difficulty nocturnal creatures have and the reasons they come out at night.
Live from 1812!
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will act out newscasts taking place in different parts of the country during the War of 1812. Four groups will portray four unique experiences using primary and secondary source readings to prepare for the role-play. At the end of the lesson,students will share what they learned in a “Letter to the Producer" to answer the question: How did the War of 1812 impact the daily life of citizens economically and socially?
Living River Online
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This online program helps kids understand how organisms live within an ecosystem. Three interactive stations feature exciting videos and fun learning modules about floodplains, mussels, pike and the Mississippi River! The course explores different ways to look at the river to determine its vitality.
How the Native Americans Lived
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will travel back in time to gain an understanding of how people can survive off the land. This program takes place at the New Castle Court House Museum.
What's Living Around Me?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students will explore and investigate 4 different areas around campus (mud puddle, rocky parking lot, grass field, tree base) to determine other living things in those areas and what they might need from those areas.
Why Visit His Home?
Lives of Backcountry Children Traveling Trunk
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
The Lives of Backcountry Children trunk is designed to enrich your students' studies of the daily life of frontier boys and girls in the 18th century. Along with a variety of artifacts the trunk also includes various lessons and activities. Just a few examples of lesions and activities included are Colonial Clothing, Colonial Children’s Chores, and Colonial Games and Music.
History on Trial
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
History Hunters
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This activity trunk is designed to introduce learners to the ways that historians, archeologists, and anthropologists use primary resources to learn about the past. Students will role-play by wearing costumes identifying each as an anthropologist, archeologist, or historian.
History and Technology
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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Historical Characters
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this activity, students will learn about nine key participants in the Battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma and the Siege of Fort Brown. They will discover how the personalities of these key leaders helped them during these clashes and influenced their outcome. Students them compare their own personality traits to discover how they are like or different from these leaders.
Channel Islands Live Dive: 4th Grade
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students explore the kelp forest with a park ranger-diver through an interactive distance learning program. As kelp forest inhabitants are encountered, fourth grade students identify their roles as producers or consumers. Food chains are constructed. What if one organism in a food chain disappears? What if some condition in the kelp forest changes?
Channel Islands Live Dive: 5th Grade
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Channel Islands Live Dive: 6th Grade
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students explore the kelp forest with a park ranger-diver through an interactive distance learning program. As kelp forest inhabitants are encountered, students identify their roles as producers or consumers. Food chains are constructed and the transfer of energy is discussed. Affects of human activities on kelp forests are also explored.
Channel Islands Live Dive: High School
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students explore the kelp forest with a park ranger-diver through an interactive distance learning program. Program emphasis is on the park's kelp forest inventory and monitoring program and the rationale for creation of marine protected areas (MPAs). Affects of human activities on kelp forests are also explored.
Living with a Volcano in Your Backyard - Teacher Workshop
- Type: Teacher Workshops & Other Programs
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade