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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.

Shenandoah National Park

Good Character, Good Stewards

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

This interdisciplinary curriculum supplement for grades K-5 integrates character education with science, math, language arts, and social science lessons for the classroom. The activities focus on the concept of stewardship and the ideals of the National Park Service to provide relevant educational experiences that involve students and promote an understanding of their responsibility to care for the world and its resources.

Good Vibes

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

This activity focuses on the health effects of various sounds. Participants visit any site where both natural and man-made sounds are present. The facilitator segues into a group discussion of the variety of sounds that are present. Participants consider their own perceptions of sound and learn to identify sounds that can benefit the health of humans, then investigate how noise pollution hinders communication and discuss ways to improve or preserve the natural soundscape. Requires a facilitator

Olympic National Park

Good Intentions

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this activity, students will read about the loop hole and the subsequent repeal of the 1881 law and its replacement by a 1914 law that allowed below dam hatcheries to be built instead of waterways. The students will then compare the early economic gain from the dam to the Olympic Peninsula in the form of hydropower with the loss of the salmon and write an editorial for The Port Angeles Evening News either supporting the dam or supporting the salmon.

Fort Raleigh National Historic Site

A Few Good Colonists

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

The Lost Colonists prepare to march into the unknown.

Glacier National Park

It Was a Very Good Year

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

Students learn to reconstruct history through the careful examination of tree-rings, and then construct a tree-ring representation of their own life history.

Trading Cards

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

The students will review articles and internet sites pulling important information pertaining to the Southern Campaign, concentrating on the areas in South Carolina. They will then create a set of trading cards to be used as a class set.

Gifts and Trading

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

Trading was a very important part of the Lewis and Clark expedition. In this lesson plan students will engage in trading for supplies with other students and learn what the expedition used for trading and traded for.

Hopewell Culture National Historical Park

Travel or Trade?

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

People of the Hopewell culture are known for building gigantic geometric earthworks. They also created spiritually charged artwork out of beautiful exotic materials sourced from all over the North American continent. How did these materials get to South-Central Ohio? Gather your students and plenty of supplies into your canoe and let’s explore the fascinating answer!

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha (Good Intentions)

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

Freeing the Elwha (Good Intentions)

Celebrate Good Times: Holiday Makeovers

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

Students will create holiday objects using designs relating to the Battles of the Southern Campaign that took place in South Carolina. Seasons and use is at the teacher’s discretion and must be approved.

Ninety Six National Historic Site

Trade: How much is that?

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

At the end of this activity, the student will be able to: - describe conflicts between the Native Americans and Europeans over unfair trade practices. -summarize the relationship among Native Americans and Europeans in reference to the conduct of trade.

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.

Tuzigoot National Monument

Trading to Survive at Tuzigoot

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

What goods were traded and exchanged by Native American peoples near Casa Grande and Tuzigoot? What kind of economy existed in this region before money? How did people work and trade in order to survive?

George Washington Carver National Monument

George Washington Carver - The Artist: To Be of the Greatest Good

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

Focusing on Carver's habit of finding new uses for discarded items, this lesson concludes with students creating art from recycled materials.

To Go or Not To Go (Lesson One in Elwha Unit)

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

In this lesson, students will answer the following essential question: What combination of factors, both natural and manmade, is necessary for healthy river restoration and how does this enhance the sustainability of natural and human communities?

Everglades National Park

“Going… Going… Gone!” Water: 4-6 Grade

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

The students will be able to: a) list two of the factors involved in the extinction of small populations, and b) differentiate between an individual organism, a species, and a population.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Economy and Trade: Pre 1845

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

In Economy and Trade: Pre 1845, students will learn about trade relations between tribes prior to European contact and how their experience prepared them for success in dealing with explorers and traders after European contact by re-enacting trading as it was practiced at Knife River Villages.

Santa Fe National Historic Trail

Trading on the Santa Fe Trail

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

Overview: Kansas Historical Society offers a highly interactive exploration of life and culture on the trail through the use of a traveling resource trunk. The trunk provides educators with a variety of primary source documents, historical artifacts and photographs. The lessons focus on Kansas and United States history; Most lessons require the physical use of the trunk items.

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site

Fort Union Society and Trading

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

Daily life at Fort Union Trading Post reflected the social and economic relationship between and within American Indian and European cultures associated with the 19th century fur-trading empire. This teacher resource document provides a unique look into Fort Union's inhabitants and social hierarchy.