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Acadia National Park
Virtual: Acadia's Top Ten
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
What makes Acadia… Acadia? Invite a ranger to your virtual space to present a slideshow showcasing the resources protected here. This overview acts as a great overview of the Park. 3rd-12th grade.
New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park
Top Ten Field Trip Tips
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Top Ten Field Trip Tips for visiting the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park!
Cowpens National Battlefield
Revolutionary War Timeline Activity
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will construct an accurate timeline of ten Revolutionary War battles.
Natchez Trace Parkway
Traces Through Time: A General History of the Natchez Trace
- Type: Distance Learning ... Field Trips ... Field Schools & Institutes
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Are you a person who likes history or national parks? Join us for 45-minutes and learn the history of the Parkway, going back thousands of years when bison roamed through today. Learn about the people, explorations and stories held along this special place.
Mammoth Cave National Park
Tasty Trees
- 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 5 of that set.
Yellowstone National Park
Who Am I? (A lesson on animals and their habitats)
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Each student researches an animal that inhabits Yellowstone National Park and prepares an Animal Profile Card with ten facts about each animal. Students share Profile Cards and attempt to identify the unidentified animals.
Mammoth Cave National Park
Clay Caves
- 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 8 of that set. Students can watch a cave form in their model landform.
Mammoth Cave National Park
Squirrels Need A Home - or - Bats Need A Cave
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This lesson plan is a part of "Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3", produced by the park's Environmental Education program. The GrK-3 Guide comprises ten lessons; this is lesson 6 of the set.
Mammoth Cave National Park
Webbing The Wonders
- 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 9 of that set. This web illustrates the way individual parts connect to form the world's longest cave.
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.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Business Ventures
- 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 merchants and traders during the 1840s when the political climate was shifting with Mexico. This lesson explores the risks, decision-making factors, and consequences of doing business in this region during the fur trade era.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Intercultural Kinship
- 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 a chance to reflect on how family unions across cultures both helped and hindered successful operation of the Bent, St. Vrain, & Co. during the 1840s.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Trade Goods
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail alongside traders and merchants gave him a firsthand perspective of how trade was conducted during the 1840s in the southern Great Plains. This lesson gives students a chance to practice trading goods and consider historical forms of commerce.
Mammoth Cave National Park
Mammoth Cave Mobile
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This lesson plan is a part of "Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3", produced by the park's Environmental Education program. The GrK-3 Guide comprises ten lessons; this is lesson 2 of the set. Students will discover the components that make up a National Park
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Trading Post Labor
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail produced a collection of observations that include the multicultural nature of labor in the southwestern borderlands in the 1840s. This lesson offers an opportunity to analyze the Bent, St. Vrain, & Company's dependence on skilled labor from various classes, ethnicities, and national origins.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Flags and National Identity
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The records Lewis Garrard kept during his ten-month journey along the Santa Fe Trail provide an outsider's view into intercultural interactions in the 1840s. This lesson features how national identity and sovereignty have been communicated through dress, color, and symbols in early American history as well as today.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Architecture
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail gave him exposure to southwestern lifestyles and trading in the 1840s. This lesson offers an opportunity to analyze how architecture is determined from a business perspective as well as identify the factors and consequences that the Bent, St. Vrain, and Company considered while building Bent's Fort.
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.
Mammoth Cave National Park
Park Puzzle
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This lesson plan is a part of Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3, produced by the park's Environmental Education program. The GrK-3 Guide comprises ten lessons; this is lesson 1 of the set. After being introduced to symbols and grouping, students will assemble two puzzles symbolic of our national parks - a ranger hat and the arrowhead patch.