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Gettysburg National Military Park
Artillery & Teamwork: The 9th Massachusetts Battery AND The Round Tops: A Critical Look
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Battlefield Footsteps is a program that focuses on character traits that can be learned from the Battle of Gettysburg. Teachers select one of three traits to focus on: leadership, courage, or determination. Students will then "walk in the footsteps" of one of three different units while discovering their roles and action in the battle. The units can be either the 9th Massachusetts Battery (Courage); the 15th Alabama (Determination); or 6th Wisconsin (Leadership)
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn about the Boott Cotton Mills complex in Massachusetts, which contains mills built from the mid-1830s to the early 20th century.
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
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.
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Black Resistance through Election Day
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson, students analyze primary sources to learn about the history of Black Election Day and the ways enslaved people resisted their enslavement in Massachusetts.
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In 1847, Massachusetts Senator Edward Keyes called to end the U.S.-Mexican War. Keyes claimed it was an unjust war with a “darker shadow . . . the extension of slavery.”
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Freedom for All?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson, students analyze primary sources to learn about the lives of two people who were part of the first generation of freed people in Massachusetts.
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Salem, Slavery, and the Sacred Cod
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
New England has deep historic connections to the slave societies in the West Indies (Caribbean). This lesson explores primary sources that implicate Massachusetts merchant families in the Atlantic slave economy.
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Freedom for All? (High School)
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
In this lesson, high school students analyze primary sources to learn about the lives of two formerly enslaved people who were part of the first generation of freed people in Massachusetts.
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Essex County Educator Webinar (Outdated)
- Type: Teacher Workshops & Other Programs
- Grade Levels: Adult Education
Join us on Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 7:00pm to 8:30pm (EST) for a virtual webinar highlighting new digital resources for educators on the history of slavery and freedom in Salem, Massachusetts.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
A three-touch model field trip where students will investigate the reasons that Springfield Massachusetts was selected for the nation’s first armory. Students will create their own maps and explore primary sources to learn about what this area would have looked like in 1777 prior to the founding of the armory.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Parts of the country opposed the U.S.-Mexican War and viewed it as an unjust war fought to extend slavery. Students divided into groups to review one of three documents from Massachusetts written about the War. One document is Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience. Next, they present the document to the class. At the end, students discuss what actions they would take to stand up for their beliefs.
Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
Peace Picnics and Community in Hopedale
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
In 1842, a group of like-minded individuals created a commune called Hopedale. Under the leadership of minister Adin Ballou, people came to Hopedale to live out their values, which included Christian non-resistance and abolition. In this lesson, students will read primary source accounts about anti-slavery meetings and celebrations independence in Hopedale, MA and consider how people use speeches and print to make persuasive arguments.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson is based on the National Register of Historic Places registration files for Wye House, Nathan and Polly Johnson House (and photographs), and Frederick Douglass National Historic Site (and photographs), as well as other source materials on the life of Frederick Douglass.
Lowell National Historical Park
Waterpower: Powering a Revolution Virtual Field Trip
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Explore how Lowell's many integrated systems, including waterwheels and turbines, transformed the potential energy of the Merrimack River into kinetic energy that ran the machines. Through a series of investigations led by one of our educators, students generate hypotheses and analyze data to determine the most efficient ways to distribute energy to all the mills' machines.
Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
Conflicting Values: John Brown and Adin Ballou
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This lesson plan invites students to consider the conflicting views of leading abolitionists in the years leading to the Civil War. There is a special focus on Adin Ballou, a Practical Christian who advocated for non-resistance, and leaders who supported violent tactics.
Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
Looming and Learning: Threading the Past and Present
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
How many clothes do you own? Are any of them handmade? Why don't people tend to hand make their clothing at home anymore? This lesson will investigate our complicated relationship with something as simple as thread. Old Slater Mill was the first successful water-powered cotton spinning mill in North America. This place transformed the relationship US citizens had with their clothing. This hands-on activity investigates how our relationship with clothing has changed over the past 230 years.
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Declaration of Independence Remix
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson, students examine primary source documents and discuss ideas and beliefs in the Declaration of Independence and who was included and excluded.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn how this American Revolution battle spurred colonial unity and sparked the formation of the Continental Army. What were the motivations and consequences of the Battle of Bunker Hill?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Walk the road where the “shot heard ‘round the world” sparked the American Revolution, and investigate how works of art both depicted and shaped our memory of these dramatic battles.