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Cowpens National Battlefield
This Land is Your Land
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This Land is Your Land is an interesting and aggressive lesson that incorporates research, hands on activities and on-site learning to illustrate and reinforce how the geographic features of Upstate South Carolina contributed to the Patriot strategy in their ultimate success at the Battle of Cowpens, 1781
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
Virtual Tour of Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Welcome to Bering Land Bridge National Preserve! Join us from the comfort of your own classroom as we explore one of the nation’s most remote national park units. Learn about the rugged and wild landscape of the tundra and what it takes for plants and animals to survive in this challenging environment.
Weir Farm National Historical Park
Virtual Field Trip to Weir Farm National Historical Park
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Through videos and 3-D virtual tours, students are introduced to the artists who lived and created art at Weir Farm. They are encouraged to look closely at paintings and painting sites to discover artistic inspiration.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
STUDENT OBJECTIVES 1. Collaborate with peers by synthesizing and analyzing research on the National Historic Trails 2. Design effective presentation using appropriate gestures and speaking skills 3. Discuss the pathways and perspectives of traders, emigrants, Spanish and Indian Americans 4. Examine the stories of nine national historic trails 5. Create a presentation that demonstrates synthesis and higher level analysis 6. Present findings about the trails to the rest of the class
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park
Exploring Habitats at Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Discover the many places that animals live at within the park! Students will explore habitats, and the animals that call them home. Meets Kentucky 2nd grade science standards. This lesson was created by Kentucky teachers as a part of the History and Science Explore Project.
Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site
Teacher Workshops at Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site
- Type: Teacher Workshops & Other Programs
- Grade Levels: Adult Education
Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site hosts at least two teacher workshops every year. Learn more about past workshops and topics for upcoming events.
Fort Necessity National Battlefield
Traveling the National Road: Unit 9 Historic Site Cards
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This unit introduces the students to seven bridges, buildings and other historic structures that were associated with the National Road in Pennsylvania and are still standing. The historic site cards are for the students to read. These cards allow the students to discover traces of the historic National Road that are still present in the community.
Homestead National Historical Park
Land Use
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In "Land Use," students discuss how people live and survive in their environments. The Homesteaders, Immigrants, and Native Americans unit is broken up into five lesson plans, taking 45-120 minutes to complete, targeting sixth through eighth grade students. A class does not have to complete every lesson in the unit - each lesson comes with its own set of objectives and resources. This is lesson 3 of the unit.
Glacier National Park
Stewards of the Land
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students learn about the four main tribes associated with the Glacier area. Then watch videos with tribal leaders and elders talking about their tribe’s relationship to Glacier National Park and why they feel it’s important to take care of the park. Students will reflect/discuss messages in the videos and write a contemporary story that teaches about caring for the Earth. Homework: Student Reading 1: People and Glacier National Park.
Glacier National Park
Oral Histories and Glacier National Park
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students read and compare/contrast the cultural stories about creation of land formations with “A Geological Story of Glacier National Park.” The teacher will lead a discussion about story telling, oral history, and different explanations for the same phenomena.
Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical Park
Nature, Art and Conservation at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School, stated “The ravages of the axe are daily increasing desecration by what is called improvement; which as yet generally destroys Nature’s beauty without substituting that of Art.” This unit, Nature, Art and Conservation at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park, will explore this very issue through on-site visits, school based lessons and independent research. For this unit students will begin by reading Marsh’s Man and Nature...
Eisenhower National Historic Site
Virtual Visit to Eisenhower National Historic Site (Grades 5-12)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Join a park ranger to explore the 1950s and 1960s and visit the only home that Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower ever owned! The Eisenhowers used their Gettysburg farm during their years in the White House, as well as in retirement. This virtual program explores the Eisenhower home and story.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn about the Dayton National Cemetery and the soldiers buried there.
Stones River National Battlefield
Stones River National Battlefield History Hike
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Forward March! Join a park ranger for half-mile walk through the battlefield and learn about the Battle of Stones River on the ground where men in blue and gray struggled decades ago.
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
Historical Characters
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this activity, students will learn about nine key participants in the Battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma and the Siege of Fort Brown. They will discover how the personalities of these key leaders helped them during these clashes and influenced their outcome. Students them compare their own personality traits to discover how they are like or different from these leaders.
Denali National Park & Preserve
Lessons from the Land
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
How have Alaska Natives, gold rush prospectors, hunter-naturalists, and visitors to Denali National Park and Preserve made use of this land through time? Find out in this fun, history-rich program, where we explore multiple land-use perspectives from past to present, and ultimately look forward into the future.
Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve
Land of Many Opportunists
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Through this activity, students will learn how aggressive exotic species take advantage of a wide range of resources in order to expand their range and compete in a nonnative habitat.
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Want to learn about President Dwight D. Eisenhower? Curious about the National Park Service and what a ranger does? Schedule a time for one of our NPS rangers to join you and your students for a fun conversation about the National Park Service, Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, and the field of history! This program can accommodate numerous age levels and is designed to give your students a chance to explore presidential history, the NPS, and more with a park ranger!
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.
Acadia National Park
"Historic" Journal Activity
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students are able to explore life in an 1800’s homestead. They will write narratives to explain their understanding of life at an 1800’s homestead.