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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
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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.”

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
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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.

Independence National Historical Park

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

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

Me and My Park
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
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A shorter ranger-conducted program for Pre-K. Designed for this age group's attention span. Includes science, a walk, and a fort program with a ranger and age appropriate activities.

Mississippi National River & Recreation Area

Take Me to the River
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Take Me to the River is a hands-on educational program designed for fourth graders run out of Hidden Falls Regional Park each fall. The program focuses primarily on the cultural history of the river, but also addresses geography, geology, and physical science through hands-on activities. Students rotate through three activity stations led by National Park Service rangers including orienteering, geocaching, shelter-building, and fire-building.

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

Olympic National Park

What's Living Around Me?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will explore and investigate 4 different areas around campus (mud puddle, rocky parking lot, grass field, tree base) to determine other living things in those areas and what they might need from those areas.

Lake Clark National Park & Preserve

Can You Identify Me?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
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Students will have the opportunity to study and identify fish as really wildlife biologists. They will watch clips taken of salmon swimming up stream through the Silver Salmon Weir in Lake Clark National Park. Their job will be to use their identification cards and see how many salmon they can identify as they swim past. Be careful -- some salmon look awfully similar!

Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve

You Can't See Me
  • Type: Field Trips ... Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

On this field trip, students will understand the importance of natural coloration and camouflage in survival, considering the colors of various animals found at the park. They will look for colored items placed in a wooded or grassy area. This outdoor activity could also be done in another natural area or on school grounds.

Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park

We Want You!
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
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At the start of the U.S.-Mexican War, both Mexican and U.S. citizens mistrusted a standing army. In this activity, students discuss reasons for joining an army. Next, they discuss the differences between a regular army and a militia of volunteers. Then they review and discuss U.S. and Mexican perspectives on regular and volunteer soldiers.

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park

Lincoln and Me: Exploring the Past and Present
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
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Childhoods today are very different than they were for Lincoln! Meets Kentucky 2nd grade social studies standards. This lesson was created by Kentucky teachers as a part of the History and Science Explore Project.

Vote: The 1844 Election
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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In this program, students learn how the 1844 Presidential election influenced the U.S.-Mexican War. In addition, students will better understand the importance of voting.

Cane River Creole National Historical Park

Virtual Ranger Visit: What Symbolizes Me?
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
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As a perfect introduction visit, students will join a Park Ranger in real time to learn about the National Park Service, and the symbolic meanings of the Arrowhead Patch! In an activity that sparks creativity, students will be able to design their own patch that represents themselves.

Whitman Mission National Historic Site

Primarily Me: Primary Sources from Whitman Mission
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Primarily Me is a lesson for older elementary students to explore the various primary sources from Whitman Mission NHS and learn about how primary sources help us learn about the events of the past and how they can be used in different ways.

Everglades National Park

"Tell Me a Story" Native People: 4-6 Grade
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Students will enjoy listening to a tale passed down by the Seminoles about how the world came to exist. Students will discuss why people told stories both historically and today. Then they can develop their own stories about things they observe in the world around them.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Weapons of the Revolutionary War
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Charleville Musket

Antietam National Battlefield

Women in the Civil War
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
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This lesson plan can be used to help your students explore some of the important roles that women had during the Civil War.

Defending Your Beliefs
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
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Parts of the country opposed the U.S.-Mexican War and viewed it as an unjust war fought to extend slavery. Students divided into groups to review one of three documents from Massachusetts written about the War. One document is Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience. Next, they present the document to the class. At the end, students discuss what actions they would take to stand up for their beliefs.

Keweenaw National Historical Park

Influence of War Post-Activity 2: Influence of War on Copper Industry
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Students will be able to demonstrate the rise and fall of copper production and how it often coincides with times of conflict in the later years of mining.