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Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Transportation

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

For the Hidatsa, transportation provided a means of moving from place to place as necessary, and a way to gather the resources needed for trade and community well-being.

Innovation in Transportation

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

In this lesson, students will create a timeline showing Rhode Island’s changes in transportation over time.

Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Transportation and the Manhattan Project at Hanford, Washington

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Lesson Plan: Students learn about transportation methods used during the Manhattan Project to move materials around the globe and through the Hanford Site.

Allegheny Portage Railroad: Developing Transportation Technology

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

Follow 19th-century travelers as they cross the treacherous Allegheny Mountains using an innovative inclined railway.

Santa Fe National Historic Trail

Riding the Rails and Traveling the Trails: Grades 4, 7, 12

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

Overview: A comprehensive education guide for 4th, 7th and 12th grade lessons about the Santa Fe Trail by Museum Education Consultant Beth Maloney. While these lessons are ideally used in conjunction with the Van of Enchantment Exhibit, the field trip is not a requirement. These lessons can be used separately and work well on their own.

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.

Shiloh National Military Park

Shiloh: Place of Peace to Bloody Battlefield (A Lesson Plan)

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

This teacher’s packet contains brief historic information, lesson plans and activities for use in the classroom. Information on planning a field classroom trip to Shiloh and Corinth Battlefields is also included in the packet.

Mount Rainier National Park

Volcano Fan Club

• Type: Science Labs
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students simulate tephra transport by placing ingredients in front of running fan, and mapping the resultant layers.

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

Buffalo Soldiers on the Move! How New Technologies Led to New Opportunities!

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Adult Education

As new modes of transportation were developed; they were adapted for military use. These new modes of transportation created new opportunities for soldiers to step into roles of leadership or be part of new regiments. African Americans took advantage of these new opportunities and combated the negative perception of their leadership abilities in the Army.

Gateway Arch National Park

Cowboys Traveling Trunk

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

In this traveling trunk, students will learn about the experiences of nineteenth century cowboys and the story of Nat Love, a famous cowboy who had many adventures on the trails and rails of the American West.

Reasons for the Blackstone Canal

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

Why was the Blackstone Canal built and why did it ultimately fail? How can we apply this historical understanding to current policy decisions on transportation?

Olympic National Park

Sediment Effects of Elwha Dams

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Through this activity, students will learn about the effects that building the Elwha River dams had on the natural sediment transport and deposition mechanisms in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

Mississippi National River & Recreation Area

Working River Online

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This program engages students with four topics deeply associated with the upper Mississippi River: its geology, its role as a transportation corridor, its waterpower, and continual stewardship efforts.

At a Crossroads: The King of Prussia Inn

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

Learn how transportation routes affected a local inn, how archaeology revealed the inn's use over time, and how preservation efforts saved the historic site from suburban sprawl.

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.

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.

Plan a Field Trip in the Southern Campaign

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students will be prompted to plan a field trip of the southern campaign. They will need to select four locations and research the who, what, when and where. They will need to plan some of the logistics like transportation and activities. Finally they will use the distance formula to estimate the distance of their trip.

Fort Stanwix National Monument

21 Days On-Site Education Program

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

How did the 21-day siege of Fort Stanwix in 1777 affect the Mohawk Valley…and the War? During this 90 minute program, take a closer look at how the successful defense of a valuable transportation route affected the lives of the Native Americans, Rebellious Americans, and Loyalist Americans!

Shaping the Future

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

How does flight impact your life today? In this in-classroom lesson plan, students will explore the impacts the Wright brothers' invention had on transportation, communication, and business in the United States as well as how it continues to impact us today. Subject: Social Studies. Grades: 6th-8th.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Juan's Draft Pick Lesson Plan

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

Whether by pulling a wagon, cart, or saddle bag, animals powered the goods to be traded and transferred to their destination. The fur trade era simply could not have taken place without the aid of horses, mules, and oxen. The lesson examines the pros and cons of using these animals as transportation based on their characteristics and biological needs.