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Gateway Arch National Park

Celebrating Community
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

In this program, scouts will explore the Museum at the Gateway Arch and its history galleries to discover how communities celebrate and honor special people and events in the past and today.

Wright Brothers National Memorial

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

How does your community help you succeed? Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first flights of human history with the support of their family and friends. In this virtual-friendly, in-classroom lesson plan, students will learn about the first flights and the people who helped make them possible by researching an assigned friend of the Wrights and performing an interview about the first flight as the person they researched. Subject(s): Social Studies and English Language Arts. Grade(s): 3rd-5th.

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

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

In this lesson, students will look at reasons why people immigrate and settle in new places and how that is oftentimes connected to the need for jobs. Students will choose an ethnic community whose members either came to work in and around Rhode Island mills (or a modern-day culture in their town) and create a poster honoring that community's impact using Adobe Spark (if looking for a digital option) or on a piece of paper (if looking for a hands-on option).

Glacier National Park

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

Students collect conifer tree needles and cones (not in the national park but from locations where it is permissible) and make displays from them. They identify trees and take note of where their samples were collected.

The “Darker Shadow” of an Unjust War: The U.S.-Mexican War and the U.S. Constitution
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In 1847, Massachusetts Senator Edward Keyes called to end the U.S.-Mexican War. Keyes claimed it was an unjust war with a “darker shadow . . . the extension of slavery.”

Independence National Historical Park

Declaration of Independence OR U.S. Constitution?
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Use this activity in the classroom or in the park to help your students understand the differences between the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve

Mystery in a Cajun Community
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Come visit the Prairie Acadian Cultural Center and solve the mystery of Farmer McDonald's knocked over crawfish traps. Students will become investigators and learn about crawfishing and Cajun culture while improving literacy skills.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

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

Read aloud "So You Want To Be President", discuss as a group then create a timeline

Fort Donelson National Battlefield

The UGRR and U.S. Soldier at Fort Donelson
  • Type: Traveling Trunk
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Contents of the UGRR/U.S. Soldier traveling trunk

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

Peace Picnics and Community in Hopedale
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

In 1842, a group of like-minded individuals created a commune called Hopedale. Under the leadership of minister Adin Ballou, people came to Hopedale to live out their values, which included Christian non-resistance and abolition. In this lesson, students will read primary source accounts about anti-slavery meetings and celebrations independence in Hopedale, MA and consider how people use speeches and print to make persuasive arguments.

Grand Canyon National Park

“Little Mexico” and Creating Community
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Between 1919-1929 a community called "Little Mexico" formed on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon when contractors refused to provide housing and food for laborers. Explore with students how the story of "Little Mexico" demonstrates resilience and resourcefulness.

Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park

What They Wore: U.S.-Mexican War Traveling Trunks
  • Type: Traveling Trunk
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Traveling trunks allow your students to "try on" history.

Correspondents, Soldiers and Spies: Women in the U.S.-Mexican War
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In wartime, women traditionally served either on the home front or as nurses and laundresses. During the U.S.-Mexican War, most women played these traditional roles while others aided the military in non-traditional ways. Read primary documents about female soldiers, war correspondents, and spies.

The Freeman School: Building Prairie Communities
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

One community, one room. Discover the red-brick schoolhouse where a frontier town's children learned and its families gathered.

Fort Stanwix National Monument

The Fort Community On-Site Education Program
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

How was this wilderness fort like our communities of today? Visit with and become community helpers of the Revolution!

Fort Stanwix National Monument

The Fort Community On-Site Education Program
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

How was this wilderness fort like our communities of today? Visit with and become community helpers of the American Revolution

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.

Frederica: An 18th-Century Planned Community
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Discover why this British settlement was built and how it functioned as Great Britain and Spain each struggled to control land from Charleston to St. Augustine.

First State National Historical Park

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

School tours complement Delaware’s Social Studies Standards. A special thematic demonstration (weaving, hearth cooking, etc.) can be scheduled for tours. This field trip takes place at the John Dickinson Plantation.

New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park

Whales and the World
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Whales and the World is a curriculum-based education program presented in partnership between New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, and the Buzzard’s Bay Coalition. The program is offered to students in grades 6 through high school and consists of three 45 minute components and may be done in any order.