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Glacier National Park
Forest Poetry
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students highlight their forest experience through poetry
Acadia National Park
Poetry in Nature
- Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Once students have made their observations, instruct them to write a poem about them. You can have them use any form of poetry, or you can instruct them to focus on a specific form (haiku, five senses, etc.) or element (sound device, imagery, etc.).
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Do you think you can fly?
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
Carl Sandburg's Performance Poetry
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Performance Poetry The purpose of this lesson is for students to understand that poetry must be expressed to be understood well. The students will view performance poetry and then select a poem to act out for their class.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson plan students will interact with Yorktown Historical documents to obtain a better understanding of the history of Yorktown and aspect free verse poetry.
Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
Field Trip: Longfellow Poetry Workshop
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
As a writer, famous poet Henry Longfellow took inspiration from many things – his children, people who lived in the house before him, his community, and his travels. During this creative 90-minute program, 3rd-5th grade students will explore literary history and use poetry as a tool to express their experiences and inspirations.
Everglades National Park
"Water Poetry" Water: 4-6 Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will learn the importance of the water cycle to the Everglades watershed. They will also be able to describe ways in which they use and conserve water, after which they will write a poem about water.
Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
Two Poems on the Charles River: Sensory Poetry About Place
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this 2-part activity, 3rd-5th grade students will explore the use of descriptive sensory language to convey a sense of place through poetry. After watching a short video featuring Longfellow’s “To the River Charles” and Yolanda Oliveira’s “Clockwork Stream,” students will analyze descriptive language in poem excerpts, then brainstorm and write their own place-based poem.
Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park
Paterson & American Industry
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Explore Paterson's role in the Industrial Revolution and discover how the natural world inspired a founding father, entrepreneurs, immigrants, poets and artists to build the nation's first industrial city and changed the world.
Andersonville National Historic Site
Literature of the Andersonville Prison
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson plan does not develop specific activities for these works of fiction. Rather it is to provide you with suggestions of grade level appropriate books to recommend for your students and to provide you with copies of little published prisoner poetry for use in your literature class.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will understand how Sandburg used poetry to express his opinion on important events of his time such as labor rights and child labor laws. The students will use historic photographs to analyze some of Sandburg’s Chicago poems. Students will answer questions about the poems to demonstrate their understanding. (This lesson could also be used for high school.)
Niobrara National Scenic River
Ever-Changing Currents Mini-Lesson
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
10 minutes classroom time https://youtu.be/vHwgJKtEuxs Students will discover what makes the Niobrara National Scenic River unique and examine a river from their own life following the model of Langston Hughes, a 20th century poet, and create a river poem themselves.
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
Let Your Voice be Heard (Grades 6-8) Carl Sandburg Home NHS
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This writing activity allows students to reflect on the insights gained through the “Eyes of a Poet”. By reading and watching a video of one of his poems, students can reflect on Sandburg’s values and apply those insights to their daily lives. This lesson plan is compatible for use with Google Classroom.
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
The Cuyahoga Valley National Park Poetic Toolkit
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
We invite teachers, students, writers, and community members to craft poems based on the stories of Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Themes include the first people in the valley, the park’s geologic history, and the Ohio & Erie Canal. Learn more about this powerful tool for creative expression developed by the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University.
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
Carl Sandburg Through Time (Grades 3-5)
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The purpose of this lesson is for students to learn about Sandburg’s life through his writing. Students will analyze one of Sandburg’s poems and explain what his poetry tells us about his family and his life. Students will think about their own families and will write an autobiographical poem about themselves.
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
"Fog" by Carl Sandburg (Grades 3-5)
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students identify how Sandburg used figurative language in one of his poems. Students will then write their own poem in a similar style.
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
Goats at Connemara Farm (Grades K-2) Carl Sandburg Home NHS
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
The purpose of this lesson is for students to understand the connection between Mrs. Sandburg’s dairy barn and how the goats are cared for by park rangers today. The students will write both a descriptive poem about goats and an opinion piece about whether or not they would want a pet goat.