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Showing 948 results for Spanish Colonial History ...
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Are you teaching your students to identify cultural contributions and perspectives? Are you looking for an opportunity to share how the age of exploration and European colonialism influenced early America? Invite Park Rangers from Castillo de San Marcos and Fort Matanzas into your classroom through live video conferencing!
Cowpens National Battlefield
Colonial Games
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
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Cowpens National Battlefield
Kids in Colonial Times
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The New Deal reform, recovery, and relief programs changed the relationship between American’s and their government in revolutionary ways. The Resettlement Administration (RA), Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), and the Farm Security Administration (FSA) were programs to get displaced families off relief. More than eighty years after the Matanuska Colony was established much of it remains to tell the story of the New Deal resettlement program in Alaska.
Cowpens National Battlefield
Colonial Correspondence Material
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Both France and Spain raced to settle and control the southern coast of North America. On a small island off the coast of present-day South Carolina lie the ruins of Charlesfort, the French outpost for a year, which later became Santa Elena, a Spanish colonial town from 1566 to 1587. The site has been abandoned now for more than 400 years.
Cowpens National Battlefield
Then and Now (Colonial Comparison Student Activity)
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Using replicas of common items, students try to identify the objects and determine the purpose.
Cowpens National Battlefield
Colonial Games 2nd and 3rd Grade
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
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- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn why Moravians immigrated to the New World and how the towns they established embodied their religious beliefs.
Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve
What is Spanish Moss?
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
People living along the St. John's River have used Spanish Moss is many ways. Students will identify uses of Spanish moss from the time of the Timucua Indians to the present.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will learn what life was like in Colonial Florida as a Spanish Soldier from the 1720's -1760's. Students will practice using historical documents and video interpretation to summarize and synthesize information.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will interpret the meaning of documents and write an essay that demonstrates their understanding of the effects of Spanish colonial rule in Florida.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to understand the role of Fort Matanzas in relation to Spanish colonial history and how Fort Matanzas played an integral role in protecting the city of St. Augustine, FL.
Assateague Island National Seashore
Learning from Spanish Coins
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson, students learn about 18th-century Spanish currency. Teachers can use the lesson plan to help their students investigate how archeologists use artifacts like coins to come up with a relative date for an archeological site. Students will understand how archeologists use newer technologies, such as 3D modeling and Virtual Reality, in order to analyze and interpret artifacts and objects.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
How can art help you understand history? Use this lesson plan to help your students connect the idea of significance and memorial.
Colonial National Historical Park
Civilian Conservation Corps
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
By completing a Break Out Edu type activity, students will discover what the Civilian Conservation Corps contributed to Colonial National Historic Park during the Neal Deal by deciphering clues that require students to read articles, encyclopedia entries, and a map.
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.
Sitka National Historical Park
Exploring Conflict and Colonization: The Sitka Battles of 1802 and 1804
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
For nearly 70 years, the Russian American company oversaw a colonial empire from their seat of power in the Russian colony of New Archangel- but founding a colony on the native land of the Tlingit people was no simple task. In this robust, place-based distance learning program, come the Battles of 1802 and 1804 that occurred right here in Sitka, while discussing important historical themes like conflict, colonization, and the rights of indigenous peoples.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn how public opinion influences the way historic events are remembered via music. Study several historic songs and why and how they changed over time. Rewrite a modern song to reflect recent history.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
An American Indian man observes English ships on the Chesapeake Bay.