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Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 1 Overview of the National Road
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This unit gives an overview of the National Road, teaching the students where it was located and its importance to transportation and commerce. It includes background information for the teacher, a student reading and two student activities; Map of the National Road and the National Road in Pennsylvania.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 2 Construction of the National Road
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This unit covers the construction of the National Road, teaching the students how it was constructed and what types of work was needed to build the road. It includes background information for the teacher, a student reading and two student activities: Road Building Tools and Workers Building the National Road.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 4 Accommodations on the National Road
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This unit covers accommodations on the National Road, teaching the students what type of food and places to stay travelers would have found along the road. It includes background information for the teacher, a student reading and two student activities: Food Along the National Road and Objects Now and Then.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 3 Travelers and Transportation on the National Road
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This unit covers travelers and transportation on the National Road, teaching the students what types of vehicles traveled the road and what it was like to travel. It includes background information for the teacher, two student reading and two student activities: Stagecoach and Conestoga Wagon Coloring Sheet and Traveler’s Tools. One of the student readings is a journal of an emigrant family.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 6 Decline and Rebirth of the National Road
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This unit covers the decline and rebirth the National Road, teaching the students about how railroads ended the National Road and how bicycles and cars helped it come back. It includes background information for the teacher, a student reading and two student activities: A Poem and a Riddle About the National Road and Picture Matching on the National Road.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 5 Workers Along the National Road
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This unit covers workers along the National Road, teaching the students what types of work people preformed to help the travelers. It includes background information for the teacher, a student reading and two student activities: Traffic on the National Road and Jobs Along the National Road.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 10 Artifact Activities
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This unit has students reenact a tollhouse on the National Road where the students are required to calculate the toll rates charged and use coins to pay the correct toll. The students also use their math skills while participating in two different activities to calculate distances using the miles listed on the mile markers.

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Traveling the National Road: Unit 8 Occupation Cards
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This unit introduces the students to 14 people in occupations associated with the National Road through occupation cards that are for the students to read. Many people worked along the National Road, transporting, feeding and caring for travelers. The reason for travel also varied. These occupation cards allow the students to discover what types of people worked and traveled the National Road. Each National Road occupation is associated with a biography card from the previous section.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 7 Biography Cards
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This unit introduces the students to 14 people who were associated with the National Road through biography cards that are for the students to read. Over time people have remained the same, but society and technology have changed. These biography cards allow the students to find a human element in the National Road history. Each person on a biography card is associated with an occupation that is listed in the next section.

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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.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

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

Working independently or as a group, students will be given a list of resources, a map of the United States depicting the locations of all National Park Service sites (as of 2016), a math compass, Internet access (for a Web quest), a graphic organizer (for optional use) and scratch paper for computations.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

Road to the White House
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students have to sequence pictures of Bill Clinton in order on a timeline. Students work in groups to organize the pictures in chronological order.

Ninety Six National Historic Site

Traveling the Great Wagon Road
  • Type: Traveling Trunk
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Educational board game to teach about migration along the Great Wagon Road during the 1700s.

Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site

Ranching, Roads and Rivers, Then and Now
  • Type: Teacher Workshops & Other Programs
  • Grade Levels: Graduate Level (Masters, PhD)

Join the staff at Grant-Kohrs Ranch for a five-day Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics (STEAM) continuing education workshop for teachers. Gain an in-depth understanding of the natural and cultural resources at GRKO and incorporate that information into educational curricula. Explore new ideas and strategies on best practices for cross-curricular design, incorporate Art into STEM lessons and add to your collection of ready to use lessons.

Yellowstone National Park

Imaginary Yellowstone Road Trip
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

In this activity, students will learn about symbols and use them to express themselves in the form of a personalized license plate. With a brief introduction to Yellowstone National Park and its most popular attractions, students can explore the park on a virtual Yellowstone National Park road trip.

Acadia National Park

Carriage Road Explorers Post Activities
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Content is a post assessment, wrap up activity for the students who attend the Carriage Road Explorers in Acadia National Park. Students will describe the characters who were essential for the creation of the carriage roads.

Old Spanish National Historic Trail

Old Spanish Trail Road Trip
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

We’re off on a grand adventure: a road trip across the famous Old Spanish Trail! The Old Spanish Trail was an arduous 1,200 mile route between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Los Angeles, California, which served traders who loaded their pack mules with woolen goods from Santa Fe each fall and returned from California each spring with goods, mules, and horses. The Old Spanish Trail linked two provinces of Mexico separated by difficult topography and climatic extremes.

Acadia National Park

Carriage Road Explorers 3rd Grade
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Carriage road signs are designed to guide visitors around the carriage roads.

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.

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.