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Castillo de San Marcos National Monument

Seeking Sanctuary on the Underground Railroad

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

Discover how St. Augustine played a vital role in the Underground Railroad.

First State National Historical Park

Flight to Freedom on the Underground Railroad: Emeline’s Journey

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

An interactive overview of slavery and abolition in Delaware told through the compelling story of enslaved Emeline Hawkins and her family, and their escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad. This program takes place at the New Castle Court House Museum.

First State National Historical Park

What Would You Take With You on the Underground Railroad?

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

Interactive Underground Railroad program for students that can accompany the “Emeline’s Journey” tour or stand alone. Student choose item they would take with them if they were a runaway enslaved person. This program takes place at the New Castle Court House Museum.

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park

Prized Possession: Escaping on the Underground Railroad Pre-Visit Activity

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

15 years before slavery was abolished in the United States and a little more than 100 miles from the safety of Pennsylvania, Harriet Tubman operated on the edge of freedom. Born in Dorchester County, Maryland, in 1822, Tubman emancipated herself from slavery in 1849 at age 27. She earned the nickname “Moses” for risking her own life about 13 times to guide more than 70 people—many of them family and friends she had left behind—from lives in slavery to new lives in freedom.

Klondike Gold Rush - Seattle Unit National Historical Park

Klondike Railroad

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

How did railroad owners use the Klondike Gold Rush to their advantage? What kinds of things drew more people to trains? What kind of people took trains back then?

Gateway Arch National Park

Railroading Merit Badge

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

A full day workshop that allows scouts to earn their Railroading Merit Badge while traveling aboard Amtrak from St. Louis Missouri to Springfield, Illinois accompanied by staff members from Gateway Arch National Park. Fee is dependent on Amtrak ticket prices.

Steamtown National Historic Site

I've Been Working on the Railroad

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Learn about the people and jobs involved with operating steam locomotives.

Minuteman Missile National Historic Site

Go Underground with Cold War history

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Your class will join a ranger at Launch Control Center Delta-01, 31 feet underground, to explore the Minuteman II system's role as a nuclear deterrent during the Cold War and visit sites rarely seen by civilians while in use, but that nevertheless loomed large on the geo-political landscape.

Petroglyph National Monument

How the Early Railroads Changed New Mexico

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

This is a lesson that can be used to teach geography, history and economics using pictures, maps and scale models.

Allegheny Portage Railroad: Developing Transportation Technology

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

Follow 19th-century travelers as they cross the treacherous Allegheny Mountains using an innovative inclined railway.

Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site

Working in America: The Allegheny Portage Railroad and the Immigration Movement

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

Working in America" is an interdisciplinary program designed to help students achieve state and national standards in History/Social Studies, Speaking/Listening, Geography, Arts/Humanities, and Technology Education. The working standards vary state to state, but there is substantail agreement on the knowledge and skills students should acquire.

Santa Fe National Historic Trail

Riding the Rails and Traveling the Trails: Grades 4, 7, 12

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

Overview: A comprehensive education guide for 4th, 7th and 12th grade lessons about the Santa Fe Trail by Museum Education Consultant Beth Maloney. While these lessons are ideally used in conjunction with the Van of Enchantment Exhibit, the field trip is not a requirement. These lessons can be used separately and work well on their own.

First State National Historical Park

Follow the Drinking Gourd

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

Students will develop a basic understanding of what the Underground Railroad was. This program takes place at the New Castle Court House Museum.

Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve

Slaves as Property

• Type: Primary Sources
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will read a "Reward Flyer" advertising the escape of a Florida slave. This will spark learning about slavery, property, and the Underground Railroad.

First State National Historical Park

The 1848 Federal Trial of Thomas Garrett

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students role-play the 1848 federal trial of Thomas Garrett, accused of helping the Hawkins family escape slavery on the Underground Railroad. This program takes place at the New Castle Court House Museum.

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park

The Real Harriet Tubman: Separating Myth from Fact Post-Visit Activity

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

Born into slavery in early 1822 in Dorchester County, Maryland. Tubman gained international acclaim during her lifetime as an Underground Railroad agent, abolitionist, Civil War spy and nurse, suffragist, and humanitarian. Disabled by a near fatal head injury while enslaved, Tubman rose above horrific childhood adversity to emerge with a will of steel. Tubman transcended victimization to achieve personal and physical freedom from her oppressors.

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park

Life after "Freedom" Post-Visit Activity

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

Tubman’s deep faith sustained her as nurse and a spy for the Union army. Tubman eventually settled with her extended family in Auburn, New York, was active in the women’s suffrage movement and founded a home for the elderly and disadvantaged.

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

Lesson 1 - JOURNALING WITH SONGS OF FREEDOM

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

This lesson plan is designed to accompany the two disc cd set FREEDOM IS COMING: SONGS OF FREEDOM, RESISTANCE, AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. The set may be obtained from the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, 916 N. Peters Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70116, www.nps.gov/jazz

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

Lesson 5 - CODED SPIRITUALS, METAPHOR IN AFRICAN AMERICAN SPIRITUALS

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

This is the fifth set of lessons in a multi lesson unit. It is based on the two-cd set Freedom Is Coming: Songs of Freedom, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad, available from the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, 916 North Peters Street, New Orleans, La, 70116. www.nps.gov/jazz

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

Lesson 2 - HOPE

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

This is the second set of lessons in a multi lesson unit. It focuses on the idea of HOPE under OPPRESSION. In this unit students journal in the first person as if they are passing through the experience of Enslavement-Resistance-Escape/Emancipation. It is based on the two-cd set Freedom Is Coming: Songs of Freedom, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad, available from the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, 916 North Peters Street, New Orleans, La, 70116. www.nps.gov/jazz