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Santa Fe National Historic Trail

Trading on the Santa Fe Trail

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

Overview: Kansas Historical Society offers a highly interactive exploration of life and culture on the trail through the use of a traveling resource trunk. The trunk provides educators with a variety of primary source documents, historical artifacts and photographs. The lessons focus on Kansas and United States history; Most lessons require the physical use of the trunk items.

Traveling the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails

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

This lesson is designed to review the purpose of the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails. The students will also expand their knowledge of each trail and put a plan together for a trip on each trail. This plan will include a packing list for their wagons. The students will use primary sources to help form their plans and packing list.

Fort Larned National Historic Site

A Long Way to Santa Fe

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

What's it like to travel the Santa Fe Trail on a wagon train? Robert Earl would say it's long periods of boredom with a few moments of excitement. Follow his story to find out about his adventures traveling with his father on the Santa Fe Trail.

Santa Fe National Historic Trail

Santafetrail.org Activities and Lessons

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

The Santa Fe Trail Association, the official partner of the Santa Fe National Historic Trail, offers a plethora of activities and packets for grades K-8. This site also offers a number of additional resources, including an interactive trail map with detailed explanations of each stop on the trail. Resources could easily be adapted to fit any curriculum!

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.

Pathways and Perspectives: National Historic Trails Multiday Lesson Plan

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

STUDENT OBJECTIVES 1. Collaborate with peers by synthesizing and analyzing research on the National Historic Trails 2. Design effective presentation using appropriate gestures and speaking skills 3. Discuss the pathways and perspectives of traders, emigrants, Spanish and Indian Americans 4. Examine the stories of nine national historic trails 5. Create a presentation that demonstrates synthesis and higher level analysis 6. Present findings about the trails to the rest of the class

Old Spanish National Historic Trail

Old Spanish Trail Road Trip

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

We’re off on a grand adventure: a road trip across the famous Old Spanish Trail! The Old Spanish Trail was an arduous 1,200 mile route between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Los Angeles, California, which served traders who loaded their pack mules with woolen goods from Santa Fe each fall and returned from California each spring with goods, mules, and horses. The Old Spanish Trail linked two provinces of Mexico separated by difficult topography and climatic extremes.

Fort Larned National Historic Site

Fort Larned Around the Room Scavenger Hunt

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

In this lesson, students will learn about Fort Larned and its impact on people and lands around it. Students will take part in an around the room scavenger hunt as they read and answer questions.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Introduction to Bent's Old Fort PowerPoint Presentation

• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

A preliminary summary presentation of the people, events, cultures, and commercial significance of Bent's Fort trading post back in the 1830's and 1840's. The outline for the presentation is as follows: I. Geography II. Historical Context III. People of the Plains IV. Fur Trade Era V. Santa Fe Trail VI. After Bent's Fort

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Cultural Dress

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

Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail put him in contact with a variety of southwestern cultures. This lesson offers insight into how cultural dress differed during the 1840s and was used to understand the wearer's society, class, occupation, and access to materials.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Intercultural Kinship

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

Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail put him in contact with a variety of southwestern cultures. This lesson offers a chance to reflect on how family unions across cultures both helped and hindered successful operation of the Bent, St. Vrain, & Co. during the 1840s.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Trade Goods

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

Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail alongside traders and merchants gave him a firsthand perspective of how trade was conducted during the 1840s in the southern Great Plains. This lesson gives students a chance to practice trading goods and consider historical forms of commerce.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Trading Post Labor

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

Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail produced a collection of observations that include the multicultural nature of labor in the southwestern borderlands in the 1840s. This lesson offers an opportunity to analyze the Bent, St. Vrain, & Company's dependence on skilled labor from various classes, ethnicities, and national origins.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Architecture

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

Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail gave him exposure to southwestern lifestyles and trading in the 1840s. This lesson offers an opportunity to analyze how architecture is determined from a business perspective as well as identify the factors and consequences that the Bent, St. Vrain, and Company considered while building Bent's Fort.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Business Ventures

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

Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail put him in contact with merchants and traders during the 1840s when the political climate was shifting with Mexico. This lesson explores the risks, decision-making factors, and consequences of doing business in this region during the fur trade era.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Fauna: Draft Animals, Buffalo, and Rattlesnakes

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

If you had to travel over 2 months to reach your destination, which animal would you depend on to get you there? In this lesson and activity, students will predict and experience the three common modes of transportation along the Santa Fe Trail as a relay. They will consider the role of animals in commerce and Westward expansion during the fur trade era.

Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail

The Anza Trail: An Educational Discovery Trunk for Santa Barbara

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

Serving classrooms in Santa Barbara, the "Following the Anza Trail" Traveling Trunk is a teachers' resource offered by the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation's Education Department and the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Climate: Drought, Seasons, and Health

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

Is climate change new? Josiah Gregg, as a firsthand observer, offers a snapshot of ecological shifts taking place in the 1830s and 1840s within the southern Great Plains. In this lesson students will compare weather averages for cities along the Santa Fe Trail and consider how seasonal patterns affect the migration and survival of human and animal species.

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

Riverways: Sustenance and Safety

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

Which route would you take? Would it be the shorter Cimarron with multiple river crossings and no trading post or the longer Mountain route that travels beside the Arkansas past Bent's Fort? Josiah Gregg's journal describes the dangers faced on the Santa Fe Trail due to the presence or absence of water in the region's rivers. This lesson challenges learners to consider how proximity to water presented benefits and dangers during the fur trade era.