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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.
Arches National Park
Cultural Contributions
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In the classroom, students observe artifacts and discuss clues artifacts provide about the lives of people who lived near Moab in the past. On the field trip, students make their own pottery, cordage, and petroglyph replicas.
Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
Culture and Community
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson, students will look at reasons why people immigrate and settle in new places and how that is oftentimes connected to the need for jobs. Students will choose an ethnic community whose members either came to work in and around Rhode Island mills (or a modern-day culture in their town) and create a poster honoring that community's impact using Adobe Spark (if looking for a digital option) or on a piece of paper (if looking for a hands-on option).
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Invite a park ranger from Scotts Bluff National Monument into your classroom for a fun, curriculum-based, social studies lesson on culture. Teams of students will look at packages of "culture clues" to determine which culture of people who have passed near Scotts Bluff they represent. In addition, students will develop a definition of what "culture" is.
Lava Beds National Monument
Cultural Traveling Trunk
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Check out a Cultural Traveling Trunk from Lava Beds National Monument!
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
Lesson 1 - THE CULTURE CONCEPT
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This curriculum is based on the collaborative ethnography Talk That Music Talk: Passing on Brass Band Music in New Orleans the Traditional Way, by Bruce Sunpie Barnes and Rachel Breunlin, published by UNO Press in 2014. Visit https://www.neighborhoodstoryproject.org/talk-that-music-talk for information on obtaining the book and a full book of lesson plans.
Cowpens National Battlefield
Material Culture: the Fife and Drum
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
How does music from the Battle of Cowpens help us understand this historical event?
Cowpens National Battlefield
Material Culture: The Powder Horn
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
To introduce to students material culture related to the Battle of Cowpens.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Culture: Languages, Food, and Stereotyping
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Are you animated when you talk? The way we express ourselves is often a combination of culture, family, and individual personality. In this lesson, students will practice reading non-verbal communication cues with peers before reading Josiah Gregg's account of multicultural immersion during the fur trade era. Students will examine his descriptions for cultural stereotype.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Cultural Contact Lesson Plan
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson examines the origin of trade goods during the fur trade era and how commerce in early Colorado history served to increase settlement and westward expansion. It demonstrates how international markets have been and continue to be essential to the success of a nation’s economy.
- 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!
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Cultural Uses of Native Plants
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this field trip through Kīpuka Puaulu students will discover the importance of biodiversity, the traditional Hawaiian uses of native plants, the continued value of these plants into the modern era and an appreciation for the ongoing need to protect Hawai‘i's natural resources.
Hopewell Culture National Historical Park
Today and Yesterday: Comparing Cultures
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson we will compare some of the tools that the Hopewell used to satisfy their basic human needs to the ones we use for our needs today. We will talk briefly about why the tools in past might serve the same function as present day tools but are made from different materials. In the end we will learn that people in the past were not too different than we are now they had the same basic needs in life but were living in a different time and environment.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
White and yellow soils lie open to the southern sun, woody vegetation is sparse and stunted, and turkey vultures soar overhead. Yet Castolon offers more than severity: its history includes a harmonious mixing of the people along the United States-Mexico border.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Consider the complex political and cultural differences that existed between European Americans and American Indians during the early 19th century and learn how these conflicting views ultimately affected the Creeks.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The lesson can be used in units on the history of westward movement or multiculturalism in America. The lesson can help students understand how Americans modified the Californio building style, at the same time adopting aspects of that style and way of life.
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
Lesson 7 - BECOMING A CULTURAL INVESTOR
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
In this unit, students will move beyond the days of the classic Civil Rights Movement and into contemporary times. Reading Jerome Smith’s chapter in Talk That Music Talk, they will learn how Civil Rights and music were combined together in a youth organization in New Orleans called Tambourine and Fan. Using the concept of a “cultural investment,” students will then create a presentation about their own community.
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
LESSON 3 - CREOLIZATION: THE CREATION OF CULTURE
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The lesson examines the process of cultural mixing and evolution through the lens of creolization.
Lowell National Historical Park
Immigration, Culture, and Community Virtual Field Trip
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Discover the stories of people who came from all over the world to Lowell and who now make up the city’s diverse community. By investigating primary sources, oral histories, and objects, students learn about the immigrant groups who arrived in the U.S. in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, including why they came, how they met the challenges of settling in a different environment, and how they contributed to their new community.
Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument
Southern Paiute Cultural History Curriculum Guide
- Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The purpose of the Southern Paiute Cultural History supplemental curriculum lessons is to provide opportunities for students to learn about the region’s cultural history. Studying about past cultures and traditions provide a context for deeper understanding that links today’s Southern Paiute people with their rich cultural legacy. Archeology helps to provide a better understanding of these connections.