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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.

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

Black Valor During the Spanish-American War
  • Type: Guest Speakers
  • Grade Levels: Adult Education

The Buffalo Soldiers were called to action during the Spanish-American War. At the start of the five-month war the men of these Buffalo Soldier units were labelled as heroes and praised for their sacrifices. However, at the war's end, the men's reputation had turned with negative press and gross insinuations. What changed? What happened that they were cut out of the picture with the Rough Riders?

Martin Van Buren's "Return to the Soil"
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Follow this president to the White House and Lindenwald in the rough-and-tumble world of early 19th century politics.

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

Discover Colonel Young's Protest Ride for Equality and Country: A Lightning Lesson from Teaching with Historic Places, featuring the historic Colonel Charles Young House
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

During WWI, African American Colonel Charles Young rode horseback for two weeks to protest discrimination in the U.S. Army.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Math at Mount Rushmore for Grades 9, 10, 11 and 12
  • Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students calculate an estimate the weight of Mount Rushmore by calculating the volume using cross sections of the model, then use density of stone to finally arrive at a rough estimate of the weight. Finally, students calculate when two cracks on the surface of the sculpture would intersect over time.

Chapter 1 Lesson Plan: The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

1963 Plymouth car advertisement.

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

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.

Gateway Arch National Park

Every Kid Outdoors 4th Grade program
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Gateway Arch National Park would like to invite you and your 4th grade class for a FREE visit to the park through the Every Kid Outdoors (EKO) program! Thanks to a grant from the National Park Foundation, transportation costs will be paid in full. Your visit will include a ranger-led museum program and FREE rides to the Top of the Gateway Arch.

Roger Williams National Memorial

Roger Williams and the Separation of Church and State
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Roger Williams believed in the idea that religion was a matter of individual conscience, not to be regulated or supported by a government. In this lesson students examine both sides of the issue of a proposed RI bill that would provide tax supported school vouchers for private schools. The students will research the issue using primary and secondary sources and then participate in a debate to answer the question: Do school vouchers violate the principle of the separation of church and state?

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

25th Infantry Bicycle Corps
  • Type: Guest Speakers
  • Grade Levels: Adult Education

In the late 1890s, the bicycle grew in popularity as a mode of transportation. This sparked a curiosity for their use in the military. Lieutenant James A. Moss of the 25th Infantry volunteered to test this idea. Learn how the newly formed 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps journeyed over 2000 miles across the varied American landscape from Fort Missoula Montana to St. Louis Missouri. Discover the challenges and triumphs faced by the Buffalo Soldiers on their ride into history.

How Did You Get To Hawai‘i?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Native species are those that reached the islands without the help of people. Many of our native plants and animals occur nowhere else in the world! In this activity, students learn how the different characters (species) in the story could reach the isolated Hawaiian Islands. The class is divided into the different ways that species arrived (4 groups): fly, swim, ride on the wind, and waves. As the story is read, students try to figure out how each new plant or animal reached the island.

Glacier National Park

Stewards of the Land
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students learn about the four main tribes associated with the Glacier area. Then watch videos with tribal leaders and elders talking about their tribe’s relationship to Glacier National Park and why they feel it’s important to take care of the park. Students will reflect/discuss messages in the videos and write a contemporary story that teaches about caring for the Earth. Homework: Student Reading 1: People and Glacier National Park.