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First State National Historical Park

Growing up in the 18th Century

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

Discover what it was like to be a child in the 18th century. This field trip takes place around The Dover Green.

Frederica: An 18th-Century Planned Community

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

Discover why this British settlement was built and how it functioned as Great Britain and Spain each struggled to control land from Charleston to St. Augustine.

George Washington Carver National Monument

George Washington Carver - An Original Conservationist: Welcome to the 21st Century

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

This activity will serve as the culmination to an ecological unit, especially those on current environmental problems. Students will take the role of George Washington Carver from 100 years ago. They will evaluate current ecological problems as if they were George Washington Carver. Their goal is to understand how the world has changed in the last century but also to recognize how solutions for today’s problems may have been around for decades and just need to be implemented.

Back Stairs at Brucemore: Life as Servants in Early 20th-Century America

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

Understand the "servant" experience in early 20th-century America, as well as the pros and cons for women working in factories versus domestic service.

Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail

The Biggest and Best Flag that Ever Flew

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Objectives: Students will be able to… describe the contributions of Mary Pickersgill to Maryland history. describe the goods and services available in early 19th Century Baltimore. analyze the interdependence of early 19th Century Baltimore.

Johnstown Flood National Memorial

Media Representations of the 1889 Johnstown Flood

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

For students to learn about media coverage at the time of the flood and the 19th century.

New Philadelphia: A Multiracial Town on the Illinois Frontier

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

Who were the Americans that settled the United States' 19th century frontier?

Martin Van Buren's "Return to the Soil"

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

Follow this president to the White House and Lindenwald in the rough-and-tumble world of early 19th century politics.

Allegheny Portage Railroad: Developing Transportation Technology

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

Follow 19th-century travelers as they cross the treacherous Allegheny Mountains using an innovative inclined railway.

Digging into the Colonial Past: Archeology and the 16th-Century Spanish Settlements at Charlesfort-Santa Elena

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

Both France and Spain raced to settle and control the southern coast of North America. On a small island off the coast of present-day South Carolina lie the ruins of Charlesfort, the French outpost for a year, which later became Santa Elena, a Spanish colonial town from 1566 to 1587. The site has been abandoned now for more than 400 years.

Building America's Industrial Revolution: The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts (Teaching with Historic Places)

• 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.

Andrew Johnson National Historic Site

Calling Andrew Johnson using Morse Code

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

The students will analyze the impact of the transatlantic telegraph on worldwide communications. The students will compare and contrast current technology to that of the 19th century.

Keweenaw National Historical Park

Commercial and Non-Industrial Occupations Post-Visit 2: Research Careers of Entrepreneurs

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

Students will be able to describe at least one entrepreneur or businessman/woman from the local area in the 19th and 20th century.

Minuteman Missile National Historic Site

Minuteman Missile Field Trip - Class sizes of 19 students or more

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

Minuteman Missile National Historic Site welcomes school groups for ranger-guided tours. Depending on group size, students may tour the visitor center and/or the Delta-09 missile silo.

"The Great Chief Justice" at Home

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

Meet John Marshall, who led the U.S. Supreme Court from obscurity and weakness to prominence and power in the early 19th century.

"The Honor of Your Company is Requested": Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Ball at the Patent Office (Teaching with Historic Places)

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

This lesson plan explores the Patent Office building, the site of President Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural ball.

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.

Gold Fever! Seattle Outfits the Klondike Gold Rush

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

The lesson will help students understand how Seattle exemplified the prosperity of the Klondike Gold Rush. It can be used in units on western expansion, late 19th-century commerce, and urban history.

"Comfortable Camps?" Archeology of the Confederate Guard Camp at the Florence Stockade (Teaching with Historic Places)

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

This lesson is based on the National Register of Historic Places documentation for “The Stockade” and “Florence National Cemetery,” part of the “Civil War Era National Cemeteries MPS;" and on archival and archeological research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Cemetery Administration (NCA), conducted by archeologists with MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Inc. (MACTEC).

Ybor City: Cigar Capital of the World

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

This lesson provides a case study of an immigrant community of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and offers a contrast to the typical textbook coverage that emphasizes immigration from eastern and southern Europe to the big cities of the north.