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Introduction to the Kecoughtan People: "Home" in an Indigenous Tidewater Virginia Town

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

This lesson introduces students to the Kecoughtan people, an Indigenous Tribe that was located in what is now Hampton, Virginia. Students will examine the idea of "home" by learning about different aspects of life in the Kecoughtan's town.

Gettysburg National Military Park

Tide of Battle

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

There were many "turning point" moments of the Battle of Gettysburg, each critical to the battle's ultimate outcome. In three-part virtual field trip/distance learning program, students will analyze primary source documents including maps, officers' reports, and soldier accounts, from three different Union regiments and then developing their own response to the essential question of which they believed to have been the most important "turning point."

Acadia National Park

Life Between the Tides

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

What happens to marine animals when the tide goes out? Learn about the challenges that these animals face at low tide and how their adaptations help them to survive.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

Family Ties (Post Visit)

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

Teacher will lead a discussion on what aspects of President Cllinton's early years were similar or different than the student's experiences.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

Family Ties (Pre Visit)

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

Students are encouraged to bring or upload one of their baby pictures and one old family photo to Google Classroom. Teacher will organize them in Google Slides and display the images to the class to identify "who is who' in their class.

Acadia National Park

Virtual: Grades 6-8, Between the Tides

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

What happens to marine animals when the tide goes out? Learn about the challenges that these animals face at low tide and how their adaptations help them to survive. (1 hour)

Gateway Arch National Park

Trial for the Right to Vote: Virginia Minor v. Happersett

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In a room on the second floor of the St. Louis Courthouse in 1873, Virginia Louisa Minor sued a city registrar for denying her the right the register to vote. What was her argument? In this mock trial, students will reenact the 1873 trial, listen to both sides, and reach their own verdict in the case.

Shenandoah National Park

4th-10th Grade | Shenandoah National Park: Virginia's Gift to the Nation

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

Shenandoah National Park is a significant part of our nation’s history as well as Virginia’s environment and economy. In this lesson, students will explore the historical, cultural, economic, and ecological significance of the Park through classroom activities and a field trip.

Natchez Trace Parkway

Read with a Ranger Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

This program illustrates how a woman and a former enslaved person worked towards changing society. It ties women and enslaved people’s roles in the formation and continuation of the Natchez Trace.

Shenandoah National Park

5th Grade | Shenandoah National Park: Gem of the Blue Ridge

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Shenandoah National Park is an important natural and cultural resource in Virginia’s Blue Ridge geographic region. Students in the 9 Virginia counties that border this long and narrow national park will discover those resources with ranger-led in-class activities such as analyzing artifacts, investigating geologic samples, and writing creative responses while gaining classroom knowledge about Virginia’s history, geology, and geography.

Chatham Plantation: Witness to the Civil War

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

Learn why this home in Fredericksburg, Virginia, was a center of military activity, and consider the impact the war had on those whose property became part of the battlefield.

Arthurdale: A New Deal Community Experiment

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

Welcome to historic Arthurdale, West Virginia, a New Deal village built from the ground-up for coal miners and their families during the Great Depression.

Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve

The Power of Glaciers

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Glacier Bay National Park has a dynamic glacial history. Through this distance learning program, students will learn about glacial formation and its impact on the environment.

Kenai Fjords National Park

Those Fabulous Fjords!

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

Students will become fluent in the vocabulary and physical geography of fjords. They will understand where fjords occur and why.

Natchez Trace Parkway

Read with a Ranger If You Were a Kid During the Civil War

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Are your early elementary students interested in history and the Natchez Trace? This program employs a story of two friends, a boy and a girl, to teach young people about the injustices which occurred during the Civil War. This program also ties these themes to the Natchez Trace and its history during the Civil War and the role the Natchez Trace played in preserving slavery.

Appomattox Court House National Historical Park

After Appomattox: Artifacts of Slavery and Freedom

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, ending the Civil War. Use this online activity to learn about the historical events and their impacts at this small village, especially for enslaved African Americans.

Shenandoah National Park

6th Grade | Virtual Shenandoah Watersheds

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Shenandoah National Park lies at the headwaters for three of Virginia’s watersheds. Through virtual exploration and observation of a mountain stream, students will connect local water sources with larger watersheds and better understand the dynamics of stream life and the extensive impacts of water management and usage. 60 minutes

Cowpens National Battlefield

Escape the Battlefield, Win the War!

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

The Southern Campaign of the American Revolution was the catalyst for the eventual surrender of General Cornwallis and the British at Yorktown, Virginia. Students will be given an escape room mystery to solve related to certain battles of the Southern Campaign. They will have 60 minutes to solve the given mystery and get out of the escape room.

"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.

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".