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Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site

North American Indian Migration into North Dakota
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This lesson plan compares and contrasts the Great Plains and the Central Lowlands, identifying different tribes territories on maps, and explaining the ways the climate regions influenced Upper Missouri Plains Indian culture in North Dakota.

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site

North American Indian Migration into North Dakota
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this lesson, students will compare and contrast the Great Plains and the Central Lowlands. Then, students will identify different tribal territories on maps. By the end of the lesson, students will answer the following essential question: How did the different climate regions of North Dakota influence Indian cultures in those regions?

Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park

History and Memory: Contrasting the Civil War South in Film and Primary Documents
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

How do different forms of media impact our understanding of slavery and the Civil War?

Slavery in the American South
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

What was life and work like for enslaved people on Southern plantations?

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

Why Visit His Home?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Using a four square graphic organizer, draft, edit and publish a persuasive essay OR draft a speech to persuade OR create a Prezi to persuade the observer to visit the birthplace home of President Clinton.

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

So You Wanna Be a Paleontologist?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will become familiarized with fossils that have been uncovered in Florissant Fossil Beds from the Eocene and Quaternary. They will select a certain extinct species and make a sketch on a Popsicle stick canvas. After shuffling their Popsicle stick fossil, they will then hide the sticks around a room and have someone else find and "excavate" the Popsicle stick fossil and attempt to put it back together. Best done with a partner to exchange fossils to find and put together.

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

So You Wanna Be a Paleobotanist?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will re-create scientific studies done by paleobotanists analyzing data from fossil plants found at Florissant Fossil Beds to draw conclusions about the paleoclimate 34 million years ago. In this activity, students will identify fossil plant species by their leaves, review data on the growing conditions of their nearest modern plant relatives, and compare as many species as possible to determine the range of temperature and precipitation that the fossil plant community can live in.

Thomas Stone National Historic Site

History on Trial
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will search for clues to his innocence or guilt and in a mock trial to determine if Thomas Stone was a traitor to Great Britain or an American Patriot for signing the Declaration of Independence. Will your class find him guilty or innocent?

Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park

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

This activity trunk is designed to introduce learners to the ways that historians, archeologists, and anthropologists use primary resources to learn about the past. Students will role-play by wearing costumes identifying each as an anthropologist, archeologist, or historian.

Cowpens National Battlefield

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

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Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park

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

In this activity, students will learn about nine key participants in the Battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma and the Siege of Fort Brown. They will discover how the personalities of these key leaders helped them during these clashes and influenced their outcome. Students them compare their own personality traits to discover how they are like or different from these leaders.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

So you want to be an American President
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This lesson is opened with a discussion, followed by the reading of Judith St. George and David Small's book, "So you want to be President", then progress into assignments, presentations, gallery walk and awards as applicable to the teacher.

Lowell National Historical Park

Do History and Science at the Tsongas Industrial History Center
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Science, History and many more field trip opportunities for your students at Lowell National Historical Park!

George Washington Carver National Monument

George Washington Carver - The Artist: Resource to His People
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Focusing on Carver's fiber art, this lesson concludes with student creating woven bracelets.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Symbols of America
  • Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will learn what a symbol is and why symbols are used. They will learn symbols of both America and of South Dakota, as well as the significance behind these symbols.

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

A Tale of Two Men
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Theodore Roosevelt and the Marquis de Mores were wealthy young men brought to Dakota Territory by the allure of the ranching industry. Although their paths crossed only briefly, they would each leave behind a legacy preserved today in western North Dakota. Bring history to life in your classroom as your students compare and contrast these prominent figures of North Dakota history.

Prince William Forest Park

Park History Talk
  • Type: Field Trips ... Guest Speakers
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Discover the rich history of Prince William Forest Park. This 30 minute to one hour overview program offers information covering various time periods from Native American history to the Great Depression and World War II.

Fort Scott National Historic Site

Sweep Through History
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The purpose of this program is to acquaint the students with life at Fort Scott during the primary eras during the site's history: Westward Expansion, Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War.

Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve

History of Kingsley Plantation
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will develop an understanding of the history of Kingsley Plantation.

Acadia National Park

"Historic" Journal Activity
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students are able to explore life in an 1800’s homestead. They will write narratives to explain their understanding of life at an 1800’s homestead.