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Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Cultural Dress

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

Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail put him in contact with a variety of southwestern cultures. This lesson offers insight into how cultural dress differed during the 1840s and was used to understand the wearer's society, class, occupation, and access to materials.

Arches National Park

Cultural Contributions

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

In the classroom, students observe artifacts and discuss clues artifacts provide about the lives of people who lived near Moab in the past. On the field trip, students make their own pottery, cordage, and petroglyph replicas.

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

Culture and Community

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

In this lesson, students will look at reasons why people immigrate and settle in new places and how that is oftentimes connected to the need for jobs. Students will choose an ethnic community whose members either came to work in and around Rhode Island mills (or a modern-day culture in their town) and create a poster honoring that community's impact using Adobe Spark (if looking for a digital option) or on a piece of paper (if looking for a hands-on option).

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

Me and My Park

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

A shorter ranger-conducted program for Pre-K. Designed for this age group's attention span. Includes science, a walk, and a fort program with a ranger and age appropriate activities.

Mississippi National River & Recreation Area

Take Me to the River

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

Take Me to the River is a hands-on educational program designed for fourth graders run out of Hidden Falls Regional Park each fall. The program focuses primarily on the cultural history of the river, but also addresses geography, geology, and physical science through hands-on activities. Students rotate through three activity stations led by National Park Service rangers including orienteering, geocaching, shelter-building, and fire-building.

"The Culture of Scotts Bluff"

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Invite a park ranger from Scotts Bluff National Monument into your classroom for a fun, curriculum-based, social studies lesson on culture. Teams of students will look at packages of "culture clues" to determine which culture of people who have passed near Scotts Bluff they represent. In addition, students will develop a definition of what "culture" is.

Lava Beds National Monument

Cultural Traveling Trunk

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Check out a Cultural Traveling Trunk from Lava Beds National Monument!

Olympic National Park

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.

Lake Clark National Park & Preserve

Can You Identify Me?

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

Students will have the opportunity to study and identify fish as really wildlife biologists. They will watch clips taken of salmon swimming up stream through the Silver Salmon Weir in Lake Clark National Park. Their job will be to use their identification cards and see how many salmon they can identify as they swim past. Be careful -- some salmon look awfully similar!

Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve

You Can't See Me

• Type: Field Trips ... Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

On this field trip, students will understand the importance of natural coloration and camouflage in survival, considering the colors of various animals found at the park. They will look for colored items placed in a wooded or grassy area. This outdoor activity could also be done in another natural area or on school grounds.

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

Lesson 1 - THE CULTURE CONCEPT

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

This curriculum is based on the collaborative ethnography Talk That Music Talk: Passing on Brass Band Music in New Orleans the Traditional Way, by Bruce Sunpie Barnes and Rachel Breunlin, published by UNO Press in 2014. Visit https://www.neighborhoodstoryproject.org/talk-that-music-talk for information on obtaining the book and a full book of lesson plans.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Material Culture: the Fife and Drum

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

How does music from the Battle of Cowpens help us understand this historical event?

Cowpens National Battlefield

Material Culture: The Powder Horn

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

To introduce to students material culture related to the Battle of Cowpens.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Culture: Languages, Food, and Stereotyping

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

Are you animated when you talk? The way we express ourselves is often a combination of culture, family, and individual personality. In this lesson, students will practice reading non-verbal communication cues with peers before reading Josiah Gregg's account of multicultural immersion during the fur trade era. Students will examine his descriptions for cultural stereotype.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Cultural Contact Lesson Plan

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

This lesson examines the origin of trade goods during the fur trade era and how commerce in early Colorado history served to increase settlement and westward expansion. It demonstrates how international markets have been and continue to be essential to the success of a nation’s economy.

Cultural Legacy of Spanish Colonialism

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Are you teaching your students to identify cultural contributions and perspectives? Are you looking for an opportunity to share how the age of exploration and European colonialism influenced early America? Invite Park Rangers from Castillo de San Marcos and Fort Matanzas into your classroom through live video conferencing!

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

Cultural Uses of Native Plants

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this field trip through Kīpuka Puaulu students will discover the importance of biodiversity, the traditional Hawaiian uses of native plants, the continued value of these plants into the modern era and an appreciation for the ongoing need to protect Hawai‘i's natural resources.

Hopewell Culture National Historical Park

Today and Yesterday: Comparing Cultures

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

In this lesson we will compare some of the tools that the Hopewell used to satisfy their basic human needs to the ones we use for our needs today. We will talk briefly about why the tools in past might serve the same function as present day tools but are made from different materials. In the end we will learn that people in the past were not too different than we are now they had the same basic needs in life but were living in a different time and environment.

Castolon: A Meeting Place of Two Cultures

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

White and yellow soils lie open to the southern sun, woody vegetation is sparse and stunted, and turkey vultures soar overhead. Yet Castolon offers more than severity: its history includes a harmonious mixing of the people along the United States-Mexico border.

The Battle of Horseshoe Bend: Collision of Cultures

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

Consider the complex political and cultural differences that existed between European Americans and American Indians during the early 19th century and learn how these conflicting views ultimately affected the Creeks.