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Cane River Creole National Historical Park

Shapes in the Landscape

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

Students will review geometric and abstract shapes, and utilize them in creating a piece of artwork. From this exercise, students will be able to explore the idea of the natural world around them being comprised of shapes.

First State National Historical Park

Politics and Plantation

Type: Field Trips
Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Explore the life of John Dickinson and the people whom he interacted with (tenants, enslaved individuals, tradesmen, merchants) by utilizing the mansion, outbuildings and primary resources. This program takes place at the John Dickinson Plantation.

Shaping Landscapes Over Time & Space

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

This lesson gives students time to observe the Cedar Breaks amphitheater within a structured context. Students can participate in a ranger led interactive, presentation where they learn about the geological processes including deposition, uplift, weathering and erosion that formed the Claron Formation and our Cedar Breaks amphitheater.

Friendship Hill National Historic Site

The Whiskey Rebellion - A Political Opinion Survey

Type: Distance Learning
Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Would you have been a rebel , a moderate or a federalist? Students are introduced to the Whiskey Rebellion before the park ranger will ask nine multiple choice questions. Each one of the three answers represents either the rebel, moderate or federalist opinion. So if you were a farmer would you have pay the Whiskey Tax? Choose A) Heck No, B) Well let’s protest, or C) Definitely YES! Find out where you would have stood during this first test of the federal government

John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site

Political Parenthood: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Remembers

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

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy possessed an acumen for people and the world which she utilized throughout her life. She fostered this passion devotedly in her children, including future president John F. Kennedy. In this lesson, students read her recollections of parenthood, hear her tour of the family home, and compare and contrast her to her husband, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. Students will learn how she shaped her son’s image and examine how historians form multidimensional views of historical figures.

Independence National Historical Park

"Join, or Die" Political Cartoon Activity for Grades 4-6

Type: Student Activities
Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this activity, upper elementary students will analyze the "Join, or Die" political cartoon before constructing their own political cartoon.

Lobbying for Equality: Examining the "Deadly Political Index" of the National Woman's Party

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

Students examine a primary source document from the National Woman's Party lobbying records and identify differing perspectives on a political issue, the Equal Rights Amendment. They plan their own lobbying approach based on what they learned. Students then identify an issue and design their own campaign for change.

Friendship Hill National Historic Site

Albert Gallatin: A Most Astonishing Man - Gallatin’s Start in Politics - Lesson 1

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

Albert Gallatin: A Most Astonishing Man is a teacher’s guide with seven lessons. In this first lesson students are introduced to Gallatin’s political beliefs through a student reading. The student activity has students match words to their definition.

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.

Mammoth Cave National Park

Shapes Of The Season

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

This lesson plan is from "Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3", which comprises ten lessons. This is lesson 4 of that set. Students collect and classify leaves. This art project then re-creates their favorite leaf shape in the colors of fall - ready to hang in the window as a sun-catcher.

Cowpens National Battlefield

This Land is Your Land

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

This Land is Your Land is an interesting and aggressive lesson that incorporates research, hands on activities and on-site learning to illustrate and reinforce how the geographic features of Upstate South Carolina contributed to the Patriot strategy in their ultimate success at the Battle of Cowpens, 1781

Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park

Printmaking - Landscapes

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

Students will become familiar with the printmaking process, and be able to recognize and create landscapes and seascapes.

Homestead National Historical Park

Land Use

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

In "Land Use," students discuss how people live and survive in their environments. The Homesteaders, Immigrants, and Native Americans unit is broken up into five lesson plans, taking 45-120 minutes to complete, targeting sixth through eighth grade students. A class does not have to complete every lesson in the unit - each lesson comes with its own set of objectives and resources. This is lesson 3 of the unit.

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.

First State National Historical Park

Saving the Past, Shaping the Future

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

Students will experience historic preservation through immersive digital tools to explore artifacts, read letters, hear stories, and connect with Delaware's history.

Denali National Park & Preserve

Lessons from the Land

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

How have Alaska Natives, gold rush prospectors, hunter-naturalists, and visitors to Denali National Park and Preserve made use of this land through time? Find out in this fun, history-rich program, where we explore multiple land-use perspectives from past to present, and ultimately look forward into the future.

Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve

Land of Many Opportunists

Type: Student Activities
Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Through this activity, students will learn how aggressive exotic species take advantage of a wide range of resources in order to expand their range and compete in a nonnative habitat.

Yellowstone National Park

Landscaping with Wind and Water

Type: Student Activities
Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this activity, students will demonstrate the destructive forces of erosion on small “mountains” and survey an area to identify evidence of erosion.