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New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
Lesson 2 - THE SOCIAL CATEGORIES OF RACE
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
One of the main conversations in Talk That Music Talk is around race and music. This lesson is designed to be able to prepare students to participate in the experiences that the activists and musicians share with them. Physical anthropologist Ashley Montague called race “man’s most dangerous myth.”
Zion National Park
Bird Beak Adaptaions
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
A ‘bird beak relay’ race using different objects to represent the beaks and food sources of 3 different birds will demonstrate to students that animals are specifically adapted for the food they eat and their surrounding environment.
Natchez Trace Parkway
Read with a Ranger Saltypie
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
As one of the contributing creators of the Natchez Trace, the Choctaw Nation played a pivotal role in Mississippi. They initially occupied the bottom third of the state, before their staged removal to Oklahoma. This program discusses the concepts of family, strength, and resiliency in terminology appropriate for elementary-aged children, while staying true to the concepts of race and removal along the Natchez Trace.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Both France and Spain raced to settle and control the southern coast of North America. On a small island off the coast of present-day South Carolina lie the ruins of Charlesfort, the French outpost for a year, which later became Santa Elena, a Spanish colonial town from 1566 to 1587. The site has been abandoned now for more than 400 years.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The New Deal reform, recovery, and relief programs changed the relationship between American’s and their government in revolutionary ways. The Resettlement Administration (RA), Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), and the Farm Security Administration (FSA) were programs to get displaced families off relief. More than eighty years after the Matanuska Colony was established much of it remains to tell the story of the New Deal resettlement program in Alaska.
Booker T Washington National Monument
War on the Home Front: Civil War Reading Passage with Graphic Organizer
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Civil War and its outcomes were life-changing events for all the people, both free and enslaved, who were associated with the Burroughs Plantation from 1850 – 1865. Students will learn about: •Life on a piedmont Virginia, slaveholding tobacco farm •National debate on slavery/Differences between North and South •Why the war was fought •How the enslaved and their owners reacted to the war •How each group was affected after the war
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
Lesson 6 - THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERGENERATIONAL DIALOGUE
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
When you take the time to sit down and learn from someone who is of a different age with different experiences, the teaching and the learning experiences go both ways. For this lesson, students will read Ray Lambert’s chapter where he discusses growing up before and after segregation with a young musician named Xavier Michel.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Meet Dr. Manassa T. Pope, an African-American doctor and entrepreneur in the early 20th century, and learn about his efforts to gain civil rights well before the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Moores Creek National Battlefield
Virtual Field Trip - Revolutionary War National Parks
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Take your students on a virtual field trips throughout national parks that tell the story of the American Revoultion.
George Washington Carver National Monument
Overcoming Obstacles: George Washington Carver’s Pathway to Education
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
At about 10-12 years of age, George Washington Carver left Diamond, Missouri to pursue an education. This photo was taken around the time he set out on his own.