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Thomas Jefferson: The Versatile Founding Father
- Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Writing Prompts derived from a visit to President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home NHS
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The 1848 Federal Trial of Thomas Garrett
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students role-play the 1848 federal trial of Thomas Garrett, accused of helping the Hawkins family escape slavery on the Underground Railroad. This program takes place at the New Castle Court House Museum.
The Invention Factory: Thomas Edison's Laboratories
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The lesson could be used in teaching units on the industrialization of the United States, the development of science and technology, or social change in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Students will discover how Edison systematized the process of inventing, allowing for the rapid development and production of inventions that improved the lives of millions of people.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Fort Clatsop Explorers Traveling Trunk 6-8th Grade
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Fort Clatsop Explorers provides objects and activities about the Lewis and Clark Expedition and their winter stay at Fort Clatsop in 1805-06. A few of the objects included are: buckskin clothing, candle mold, flint-n-steel fire starting kit, powder horn, trade items, Jefferson Peace Medal, examples of furs and a housewife (sewing kit).
Fort Clatsop Explorers Traveling Trunk 3rd-5th Grade
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Fort Clatsop Explorers provides objects and activities about the Lewis and Clark Expedition and their winter stay at Fort Clatsop in 1805-06. A few of the objects included are: buckskin clothing, candle mold, flint-n-steel fire starting kit, powder horn, trade items, Jefferson Peace Medal, examples of furs and a housewife (sewing kit). An educators guide contains hands-on activity ideas and descriptions of some of the essential articles carried by the Lewis & Clark Expedition
Missouri Capital Mural 5th & 6th Grade
Missouri Capitol Mural 3rd & 4th Grade
Missouri Capital Mural 7th & 8th Grade
Painting 1000 Words
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
History on Trial
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Using the Webquest Slides, students will explore and learn about the important members and contributors to the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Each slide will have links) to National Park web pages with information about each member or group. For each member, students find four facts and write a sentence about their role (contribution) to the expedition. This activity can be done in a handful of ways, with the suggested method being a Jigsaw.
Discover Urban Insects!
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Families of the Past
- Type: Field Trips ... Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students step into the past as theybecome familiar with daily life in a Maryland home in the late 1700s and learnabout Thomas Stone as a husband, father, farmer, lawyer and signer of theDeclaration of Independence. Students will compare life in the 18th century totheir lives today. Students will enjoy interactive tours of the house, groundsand Visitor Center as well as hands-on activities.
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- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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