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Cowpens National Battlefield

Colonial Correspondence Material

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

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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.

Fort Pulaski National Monument

Fort Pulaski Pre-Visit Materials

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

These materials provide pre-visit information for teachers and students who are planning a field trip to Fort Pulaski. There is a fact sheet and timeline for teachers and worksheet for students.

Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical Park

Creating Sculptures from Natural Materials

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students will address real world issues through considering their impact on the environment, creating public site-specific art for a national historical park, integrating interdisciplinary understandings, and collaborating with a diverse group.

What is that Gray Hair-like Material in the Trees?

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

Students will identify uses of Spanish moss from the time of the Timucua Indians to the present.

George Washington Carver National Monument

George Washington Carver - An Original Conservationist: Alternative Uses for Everyday Materials

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

This topic is a focus on alternative uses for source materials and products that can be made with alternative materials. Students will make peanut milk in an effort to understand how foods can be used in different ways to increase nutrition to the consumer. Students will create a pros/cons poster researching products (such as fuel) and comparing traditional source materials (crude oil) with alternative materials (corn or soy-based ethanol).

Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site

Teaching With Historic Places Curriculum

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This lesson is based on the Historic Resources Study for Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, as well as other materials on Bethune and the National Council of Negro Women.

Acadia National Park

Passamaquoddy History & Culture: A Traveling Teaching Kit

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

The National Park Service and the Abbe Museum collaborated to create this traveling kit. This hands-on kit uses student-centered activities and tactile elements to introduce students to the richness of Passamaquoddy culture and history. This kit does not attempt to fully teach all of Passamaquoddy history. Rather, these lessons and activities should be used as an introduction that will hopefully inspire you and your students.

"The Great Chief Justice" at Home (Teaching with Historic Places)

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

This lesson plan examines the home of US Supreme Court Justice John Marshall and his public and private roles.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Tea Bag Challenge

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

Line drawing of a tea bag with red tag

Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail

TEACHING WITH PRIMARY SOURCES—MTSU, Lesson Plan: The Trail of Tears

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

Students will understand the background of the Trail of Tears, the different views of the Indian Removal Act, and how the Trail of Tears affected the American Indians who participated in it.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Ohio & Erie Canal: Teacher Resources

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Materials for educators who teach about Ohio history or canals.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Wetlands: Teacher Resources

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Materials for educators who teach about wetlands or associated wildlife.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Prehistoric Native Americans: Teacher Resources

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Materials for educators who teach about prehistoric Native Americans in Ohio.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Northeast Ohio Geology: Teacher Resources

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Materials for educators who teach about northeast Ohio geology or earth science.

"The Greatest Dam in the World": Building Hoover Dam (Teaching with Historic Places)

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

Learn about the Hoover Dam, located where the Colorado River forms the boundary between the states of Nevada and Arizona,

Brown v. Board: Five Communities That Changed America (Teaching with Historic Places)

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

Learn about the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down "separate but equal".

African Americans and the War of 1812: A Lightning Lesson from Teaching with Historic Places

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

The War of 1812, which pitted the United States, Great Britain and their allies against each over the course of three years, turned into an opportunity for enslaved African Americans to advocate for their freedom. Between the summers of 1813 and 1814, 4,000-5,000 fled to the side of the British, in the hopes of securing freedom and safe passage for themselves and their families.

Discover the Jackie Robinson Ballpark: A Lightning Lesson from Teaching with Historic Places

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

How can sports and popular culture change public opinion? What historic place might you study to answer this question? Jackie Robinson and his Florida namesake hold clues.