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Gateway Arch National Park

Plains Indians Traveling Trunk

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

In this traveling trunk, students will explore the culture of the Plains Indians with Chief Red Cloud. Red Cloud shares his vivid memories and precious belongings, telling the stories of his people and describing the days of the great buffalo hunts and the darker days of life on the reservation.

Gateway Arch National Park

American Indians and the Great Plains

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

American Indians have lived in North America for thousands of years. All of the lands that make up the United States today were exclusively Indigenous lands long before Europeans first arrived about 500 years ago. The growth of the United States through westward expansion challenged traditional ways of life for many Indigenous tribes during the 1800s as more settlers crossed the Mississippi River for a new life in the West.

Gateway Arch National Park

Plains Indians Scout Program

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Explore the culture of the Plains Indians. Learn about their dependence on the buffalo, what they ate, what they wore, and how they had fun. Takes place at the Museum at the Gateway Arch.

Gateway Arch National Park

American Indians and the Great Plains (Distance Learning)

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

In this distance learning program, students will compare and contrast their lives with that of traditional Plains Indian tribes during the 1800s. They will learn how tribes such as the Dakota, Lakota, Osage, and others used nature and the lands around them to shape traditional tribal customs, and discuss how westward expansion changed their way of life.

Fort Larned National Historic Site

Provider of the Plains - Bison

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Bison provided almost everything the Plains Indians needed for their daily life. Learn how these animals sustained American Indians on the Great Plains.

Gateway Arch National Park

Indian Lore

• Type: Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

At the Museum at the Gateway Arch, scouts will learn about the traditions, practices, and histories of American Indian tribes in a variety of regions, but specifically about the Osage Indians who played a major role in the history of St. Louis.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Flora on the Plains: Grasses, Trees, and Agriculture

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

Follow alongside a trading caravan with Josiah Gregg to observe how plant life contributed to and threatened survival in the southern Great Plains. Consider how human impact and responsible management of natural resources was necessary during the fur trade era just as it is today.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Optical Illusions and Mirage on the Great Plains

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

Are your eyes playing tricks on you or is it the light? This lesson explores the properties of light and the environmental conditions which cause mirages. Students will examine some famous optical illusions before reading Josiah Gregg's experience with them when traveling across the Great Plains in the 1830s and 1840s.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Geography: Navigation and Isolation on the Great Plains

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

Getting lost in unfamiliar surroundings is a common human experience. In this lesson students will take on the role of navigator and mapmaker to pinpoint a location. By doing so, students will recognize that migration across the Great Plains landscape in the 1830s and 1840s required a unique set of survival skills and navigational tools.

Gateway Arch National Park

Playing the Past

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

In the nineteenth century opportunities for women were often limited, but regardless of the challenges, women made significant contributions to our history as a people. Scouts will explore the topic at the Museum at the Gateway Arch.

Knife River: Early Village Life on the Plains

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

Have students describe the life of the Hidatsa and Mandan groups in the early 19th century and explain how the villagers shaped their environment and adapted to it; and discover American Indian groups who once lived in their region and compare their cultures to the Hidatsa and Mandan peoples.

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve

French and Indian War Activity

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

Representing the competing interests of the European nations on a global scale, set in the North American contenient. These battles ultimately shaped political and cultural divisions across the world, especially here in Louisiana that are still felt today!

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

George Washington and the French and Indian War

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Talk with one of Fort Necessity National Battlefield’s park rangers via video conferencing equipment about young George Washington and the French and Indian War. Using George Washington’s actions and writings students will see how his ambition, hard work and experiences helped him mature into the famous man we all know today.

Homesteaders, Immigrants & American Indians Curriculum Unit

• Type: Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Homesteaders, Immigrants & American Indians Curriculum Unit.

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site

North American Indian Migration into North Dakota

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

This lesson plan compares and contrasts the Great Plains and the Central Lowlands, identifying different tribes territories on maps, and explaining the ways the climate regions influenced Upper Missouri Plains Indian culture in North Dakota.

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site

North American Indian Migration into North Dakota

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

In this lesson, students will compare and contrast the Great Plains and the Central Lowlands. Then, students will identify different tribal territories on maps. By the end of the lesson, students will answer the following essential question: How did the different climate regions of North Dakota influence Indian cultures in those regions?

Homestead National Historical Park

Black Homesteaders on the Great Plains: Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness (Adult)

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Adult Education

The call of free land offered Black Americans the possibilities of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness on the Great Plains. Come learn about the struggles that Black homesteaders met in building and sustaining households and communities.

Fort Scott National Historic Site

(1840s) Heartache and Tragedy: Fort Scott and Indian Removal

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

In this program, students explore various concepts related to Indian Removal-home, forced removal, prejudice. Students then participate in an activity designed to simulate the experience of the Cherokee tribe's movement westward along the Trail of Tears,

Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument

Gran Quivira: A Blending of Cultures in a Pueblo Indian Village

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

The quiet remnants of the village of Las Humanas, now called Gran Quivira, only hint at the vibrant society that thrived here until the late 17th century. Today it is one of three sites that make up Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument.

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park

Grade 3-8 Harriet Tubman, Brave Woman or Just Plain Crazy?

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

To better understand Harriet Tubman's decisions in the larger context of the institution of slavery. What led Tubman to escape slavery and to return to rescue her family and friends? What factors led other enslaved people to remain in their conditions? Was Harriet Tubman's decision a product of personal courage, her situation as an enslaved woman facing sale, or a grave risk?