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Lesson 3 - PHOTO ANALYSIS
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This lesson introduces students to the Civil Rights Movement’s direct-actions against segregation. In the 1960s, the New Orleans chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality participated in the Freedom Rides throughout the South. Students will examine a collection of photographs that includes four mug shots of C.O.R.E. activists and a Mississippi cotton field.
Conococheague Aqueduct Breach Historical Photos
Photo Explorer: The Past comes to Life: 2nd - 3rd grade
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
What can you learn by looking at photos from the past? What will photos from today tell people in the future? By exploring photos from the Grant-Kohrs Ranch NHS photo collection, students will learn about what life was like for the people who lived on the ranch in the past and connect the past to their modern lives.
Exploring Climate Science (Watershed)
Activities for Home - Dark Skies
What's That Green Stuff In The Cave?
Cottonwood Trail Post Visit
Illustrate Your Service Learning Project
Overcoming Obstacles: George Washington Carver’s Pathway to Education
Family Ties (Pre Visit)
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Formation of Mountains and Faults
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Eisenhower and Little Rock: A Civil Rights Lesson
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Self-Guided Gallery Tours
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Photos, exhibits and interpretive media are combined to offer a summary of hardships due to racial injustice. Explore interactive exhibits relating to the Civil Rights Movement that followed in the wake of the decision in the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education gallery. Appropriate for ages 12 and up only.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The Homestead Act of 1862 (K-2)
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
The trunk includes curriculum materials, books, and photos that can be integrated into history, social studies, art, reading, and language arts curriculum. Additionally, the curriculum materials include student station sheets, so students can rotate stations without the teacher having to repeat instructions.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade