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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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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?

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.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

In a Word (Post Visit)

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

Introduce President Clinton as a Hope native. Students will research his life and presidency. Add facts to sticky notes and place on wall or board for everyone to view. Students will create a poster or pamphlet using "sticky note facts".

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site

Fort Union Fur Trade Overview

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

This map highlights the significance of Fort Union's location among the Upper Missouri Plains Tribes.

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site

Fort Union Fur Trade Overview

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

This document provides background information for teachers on Fort Union trading. For 39 years, Fort Union was the longest-lasting and most profitable fur trading post on the Upper Missouri River.

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.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Cottonwood Trail Post Visit

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students have this opportunity to explore the natural history of the dunes at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore through art and looking at modern day photos.

Civil War to Civil Rights Trading Cards

• Type: Online Galleries
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Collect stories about the Civil War and civil rights! The National Park Service is offering more than 500 trading cards to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

Eisenhower National Historic Site

Molding of a Leader: Post Visit Activities

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

Children will demonstrate that they will try to be a person of good character by creating a poster and/or by writing a letter to the Park Rangers to be displayed at the Eisenhower National Historic Site.

Acadia National Park

Carriage Road Explorers Post Activities

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

Content is a post assessment, wrap up activity for the students who attend the Carriage Road Explorers in Acadia National Park. Students will describe the characters who were essential for the creation of the carriage roads.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Glen Haven Post-visit Activity

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This activity leads students to reflect on their experience visiting Glen Haven and connect that experience to current events. They will recognize the mission of the National Park Service and how it relates to them.

Pre and Post Field Trip Activities

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

Students will be able to understand the role of Fort Matanzas in relation to Spanish colonial history and how Fort Matanzas played an integral role in protecting the city of St. Augustine, FL.