Educator Resources

Search:

Searching...

No results match your search query. Please try again.

Filter Your Results

Type

X

• Lesson Plan (20)
• Field Trips (9)
• Student Activities (8)
• Teacher Reference Materials (4)
• Traveling Trunk (4)
• Media for Loan (3)
• Other Education Materials (3)
• Distance Learning (2)
• Guest Speakers (1)
• Primary Sources (1)

Location

X

• Gateway Arch National Park (6)
• Wright Brothers National Memorial (4)
• Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park (3)
• Walnut Canyon National Monument (3)
• Andersonville National Historic Site (2)
• George Washington Carver National Monument (2)
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site (2)
• Lava Beds National Monument (2)
• Montezuma Castle National Monument (2)
• Mount Rushmore National Memorial (2)
• Statue Of Liberty National Monument (2)
• Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument (2)
• White Sands National Park (2)
• Wupatki National Monument (2)
• African Burial Ground National Monument (1)
• California National Historic Trail (1)
• Cedar Breaks National Monument (1)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park (1)
• Colorado National Monument (1)
• Cowpens National Battlefield (1)
• Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve (1)
• Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument (1)
• George Washington Memorial Parkway (1)
• Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail (1)
• Petroglyph National Monument (1)
• Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument (1)
• Scotts Bluff National Monument (1)
• Tonto National Monument (1)
• Tuzigoot National Monument (1)
• Show More ...

Subject

• Social Studies (36)
• Science (17)
• Literacy and Language Arts (16)
• Math (7)

Grade Range

• Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade (33)
• Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade (10)
• High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade (4)
• Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade (2)

Common Core

X

• 9-10.RH.1 (6)
• 9-10.RH.2 (6)
• 9-10.RH.3 (6)
• 9-10.RH.4 (6)
• 9-10.RH.5 (6)
• 9-10.RH.7 (6)
• 6-8.RH.10 (5)
• 6-8.RH.2 (5)
• 6-8.RH.4 (5)
• 6-8.RH.5 (5)
• 6-8.RH.7 (5)
• 6-8.RH.9 (5)
• 9-10.RH.10 (5)
• 9-10.RH.8 (5)
• 9-10.RH.9 (5)
• 3.RI.3 (4)
• 3.RI.7 (4)
• 3.SL.1 (4)
• 3.SL.3 (4)
• 4.RI.3 (4)
• 4.RI.7 (4)
• 4.SL.1 (4)
• 4.SL.3 (4)
• 5.RI.3 (4)
• 5.RI.7 (4)
• 5.SL.1 (4)
• 5.SL.3 (4)
• 6-8.RH.3 (4)
• 6-8.RH.6 (4)
• 6-8.RH.8 (4)
• 9-10.RH.6 (4)
• 3.L.1 (3)
• 3.RI.1 (3)
• 3.SL.1.c (3)
• 3.SL.1.d (3)
• 3.SL.6 (3)
• 4.L.1 (3)
• 4.RI.1 (3)
• 4.SL.1.c (3)
• 4.SL.1.d (3)
• 4.SL.6 (3)
• 5.RI.1 (3)
• 5.SL.1.c (3)
• 5.SL.1.d (3)
• 5.SL.6 (3)
• 1.RI.3 (2)
• 1.SL.1 (2)
• 1.SL.3 (2)
• 11-12.RH.1 (2)
• 11-12.RH.10 (2)
• 11-12.RH.2 (2)
• 11-12.RH.4 (2)
• 11-12.RH.5 (2)
• 11-12.RH.8 (2)
• 2.RI.1 (2)
• 2.RI.3 (2)
• 2.RI.7 (2)
• 2.SL.1 (2)
• 2.SL.3 (2)
• 3.RI.2 (2)
• 3.RI.6 (2)
• 3.SL.1.b (2)
• 3.SL.4 (2)
• 4.RI.2 (2)
• 4.RI.6 (2)
• 4.SL.1.b (2)
• 4.SL.4 (2)
• 5.L.1 (2)
• 5.RI.2 (2)
• 5.RI.6 (2)
• 5.SL.1.b (2)
• 5.SL.4 (2)
• 6-8.RH.1 (2)
• 1.L.1 (1)
• 1.RF.1 (1)
• 1.RF.3 (1)
• 1.RF.4 (1)
• 1.RF.4.c (1)
• 1.RI.1 (1)
• 1.RI.2 (1)
• 1.RI.6 (1)
• 1.RI.7 (1)
• 1.RI.9 (1)
• 1.RL.2 (1)
• 1.RL.6 (1)
• 1.RL.7 (1)
• 1.SL.1.a (1)
• 1.SL.1.b (1)
• 1.SL.1.c (1)
• 1.SL.4 (1)
• 1.SL.5 (1)
• 1.SL.6 (1)
• 1.W.3 (1)
• 11-12.RH.3 (1)
• 11-12.RH.6 (1)
• 11-12.RH.7 (1)
• 11-12.RH.9 (1)
• 2.L.1 (1)
• 2.RF.3 (1)
• 2.RF.4 (1)
• 2.RF.4.c (1)
• 2.RI.2 (1)
• 2.RI.6 (1)
• 2.RI.9 (1)
• 2.RL.2 (1)
• 2.RL.6 (1)
• 2.RL.7 (1)
• 2.SL.1.a (1)
• 2.SL.1.b (1)
• 2.SL.1.c (1)
• 2.SL.4 (1)
• 2.SL.5 (1)
• 2.SL.6 (1)
• 3.L.2.a (1)
• 3.L.3 (1)
• 3.RF.3 (1)
• 3.RF.4 (1)
• 3.RF.4.c (1)
• 3.RI.9 (1)
• 3.RL.2 (1)
• 3.RL.6 (1)
• 3.RL.7 (1)
• 3.SL.1.a (1)
• 3.SL.5 (1)
• 4.L.2 (1)
• 4.L.3 (1)
• 4.RF.3 (1)
• 4.RF.4 (1)
• 4.RF.4.c (1)
• 4.RI.10 (1)
• 4.RI.9 (1)
• 4.RL.2 (1)
• 4.RL.6 (1)
• 4.RL.7 (1)
• 4.SL.1.a (1)
• 4.SL.5 (1)
• 4.W.3 (1)
• 5.RF.3 (1)
• 5.RF.4 (1)
• 5.RF.4.c (1)
• 5.RI.10 (1)
• 5.RI.9 (1)
• 5.RL.2 (1)
• 5.RL.6 (1)
• 5.RL.7 (1)
• 5.SL.1.a (1)
• 5.SL.5 (1)
• 5.W.3 (1)
• 6.SL.1 (1)
• 6.SL.1.a (1)
• 6.SL.1.b (1)
• 6.SL.3 (1)
• 6.SL.4 (1)
• 6.SL.5 (1)
• 7.SL.1 (1)
• 7.SL.1.a (1)
• 7.SL.1.b (1)
• 7.SL.3 (1)
• 7.SL.4 (1)
• 7.SL.5 (1)
• K.L.1 (1)
• K.RF.1 (1)
• K.RF.3 (1)
• K.RF.4 (1)
• K.RI.1 (1)
• K.RI.2 (1)
• K.RI.3 (1)
• K.RI.6 (1)
• K.RI.7 (1)
• K.RI.9 (1)
• K.RL.2 (1)
• K.RL.6 (1)
• K.RL.7 (1)
• K.SL.1 (1)
• K.SL.3 (1)
• K.SL.6 (1)
• Show More ...

Showing 49 results for Monuments ...

Sort by: Relevance Recently Updated

Gateway Arch National Park

Monumental Reflection

• Type: Media for Loan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This documentary reflects on the Gateway Arch as a memorial and what it means to people who visit it.

Gateway Arch National Park

Monument to the Dream

• Type: Media for Loan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This classic documentary by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Charles Guggenheim captures the drama of the Gateway Arch's progress from Eero Saarinan's daring design to its dramatic completion with the fitting of the last section.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Designing a Monument

• Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students utilize resources available in the art classroom to recreate the Mount Rushmore Sculpture, or design their own version, where they choose the four figures from history they feel should be represented by the monumental sculpture. Students will present their final art piece to the classroom with a persuasive argument for their choices of the figures.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Monuments at the Battlefield

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

To have students recognize how people and events are represented by monuments.

Potomac Gorge: A Natural Monument in the Shadow of National Monuments

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

On this field trip to either C&O Canal National Historical Park or the George Washington Memorial Parkway, students will conduct a field study activity, to identify some of the ways human impacts affect organisms that live in the Potomac and assess the human impact on a 20-meter stretch of trail in the park.

Andersonville National Historic Site

Interview a Monument: Exploring the Monuments of Andersonville National Cemetery

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

Students will learn how survivors of Andersonville and other groups memorialized Andersonville after the Civil War. Students will examine how the development of monuments in Andersonville National Cemetery reflected the development of the United States from 1890-1920.

Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park

Make Your Own Monument!

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

Students will be able to interpret and develop visual symbols to celebrate personal and public achievements.

The Washington Monument: Tribute in Stone

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

Understand why George Washington was so revered during his lifetime and beyond, and learn why it took 100 years to complete this famous monument in his honor.

Petroglyph National Monument

Traveling Trunks at Petroglyph National Monument

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

Bring the park into your classroom today!! Petroglyph National Monument offers FIVE traveling trunks for your convenience. These trunks can be adapted for various grade levels.

Tonto National Monument

The FIRST Field Trip to Tonto National Monument

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

Students will be able to state the differences between primary and secondary sources; students will be able to give examples of each type of source. After reading a primary source, students will be able to retell the story of the first field trip to Tonto National Monument.

Tonto National Monument: Saving a National Treasure

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

Learn about one of the nation's most important conservation laws--the Antiquities Act of 1906--and how its passage preserved important cultural sites such as Tonto National Monument, which preserves remnants of the Salado culture prior to European contact.

Tuzigoot National Monument

History Detective Scavenger Hunt at Tuzigoot National Monument

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

When you bring your students to Tuzigoot National Monument for a field trip, engage them on the main Pueblo trail with this guidebook. They'll be History Detectives as they are guided along the trail, learning about the prehistoric Sinagua who lived here 600 years ago.

Montezuma Castle National Monument

Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot National Monuments Educator's Guide

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

This Educator's Guide is intended to provide assistance in preparing for a visit to Montezuma Castle, Montezuma Well and/or Tuzigoot. However, it can be used independently of field trips to the monuments. All activities meet State of Arizona standards.

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.

Montezuma Castle National Monument

A Past Preserved in Stone: A History of Montezuma Castle National Monument

• Type: Primary Sources ... Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Want to know the indepth story of Montezuma Castle over the last 100 years? This is the book for you!

Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument

Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument Past vs. Present

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Independent reading comprehension. Students will describe the past species and climate of Tule Springs. Students will research the modern species and climate of Tule Springs. Students will theorize the effects climate change could have today at Tule Springs.

George Washington Carver National Monument

George Washington Carver National Monument 3rd & 4th Grade Art and Essay Contest

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

George Washington Carver National Monument preserves the birthplace and childhood home of George Washington Carver, renowned scientist, educator, and humanitarian. Carver was a prolific writer and artist. This contest strengthens writing skills and encourages artistic expression.

African Burial Ground National Monument

Discover the African Burial Ground National Monument: A Lightning Lesson from Teaching with Historic Places

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

Identify ways people memorialized the dead at the “Negros Buriel Ground” in colonial New York and ways people memorialized the African Burial Ground National Monument.

Wright Brothers National Memorial

Location, Location, Location.

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

The Wright Brothers National Monument

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!