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Money, Money, Money!

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

Students will be able to describe the basic monetary system in use in American leading up to, and to a degree during, the Revolutionary War and solve simple math problems using this system.

Gateway Arch National Park

MO Outdoor Rangers

• Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Splash your way through a week of water fun. Paddle your way through our great Missouri waterways, build a creek dam and explore nature’s water creatures, and catch a big one fishing the shores of Missouri’s parks and public lands.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site

"The Measure of a Man's Success in Life is Not the Money He's Made. It's the Kind of Family He Has Raised.": Separating the Myth from Reality in the Life and Times of Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr.

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

This lesson plan allows high school students to identify who Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. was and his role in United States history. Students will examine Kennedy family photographs, letters from Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. to his family, and quotes from Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., to form their understanding of his influence. Students will evaluate the ways in which historians form complex understandings of controversial historical figures.

Tuzigoot National Monument

Trading to Survive at Tuzigoot

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

What goods were traded and exchanged by Native American peoples near Casa Grande and Tuzigoot? What kind of economy existed in this region before money? How did people work and trade in order to survive?

Saratoga National Historical Park

Traveling Haversack

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

The Traveling Haversack Kit contains a Teacher's Guide and six different "Discovery Bag" activities. Each small group bag contains a reproduced artifact as a manipulative to introduce a particular theme for participants in the Revolutionary War: food, drink, cleanliness, entertainment, women's roles, and money.

Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site

Replace or Repurpose?

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

The ability to work metal was a critical skill in the late 1800s American West. Local blacksmiths provided the metal tools and objects people used every day. But this skill became more important among cowboys during the Great Depression of the 1930s. As ranches struggled to earn money to survive, metal’s ability to be repaired and reshaped into new tools gained importance. This lesson invites students to step into the minds of cowboys living during the Great Depression and repurposing items.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Economy and Trade: Pre 1845

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

In Economy and Trade: Pre 1845, students will learn about trade relations between tribes prior to European contact and how their experience prepared them for success in dealing with explorers and traders after European contact by re-enacting trading as it was practiced at Knife River Villages.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

As Time Goes By

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

Introduce timeline concept using the website on President Clinton. Give examples of an elapsed timeline from the site. Model creating a question and answer then discuss the assignment using example questions (feel free to create others at your discretion): 1. How much time elapsed between when President Clinton became Governor and then President? 2. How old was Bill Clinton when he became Governor of Arkansas? 3. How old was Bill Clinton when he became President of the United States?

César E. Chávez National Monument

César’s Road, Rangers in the Classroom Program

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

Many people have heard of César Chávez and how he fought for rights and justice for agricultural workers, but what were the conditions that nurtured his activism? Our education rangers guide students in a math activity that puts them in César's shoes, showing how difficult it was for migrant farmworkers to have stable housing. Finally, they learn how César Chávez fought for better conditions for farmworkers.

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

Slatersville, Slave Cloth, and the Slater Fund

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

One member of the Slater family, John Fox Slater, became an outspoken abolitionist and gave a considerable amount of his fortune to a fund that paid for schools and the education of Black leaders. A historian in this series asks: “Why did he do it?” Consider this question and the interconnectedness of the economies in the North and the South as you complete the activities in this lesson plan.

Friendship Hill National Historic Site

Albert Gallatin: A Most Astonishing Man - Gallatin as Secretary of the Treasury - Lesson 6

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

Gallatin moved into the political spotlight when he became Secretary of the Treasury. Students will read about this part of Gallatin’s career. Then using an activity sheet the students will have to make some tough choices to develop the United States budget.