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A Trained Army

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

How are functions calculated, used, and expressed in real world mathematical situations?

Saratoga National Historical Park

Building an Army

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

This Math/Social Studies worksheet can be used to help students learn about the three basic organizational levels of an army during the American Revolution. Students will calculate the number of soldiers one may have seen in a Revolutionary War army, and develop an appreciation for the vast numbers of soldiers needed to help secure American independence.

Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve

Create a Coat of Arms

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

Students will be able to create and label their own coat of arms using the descriptions and symbols provided in the activity sheets.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Abraham Lincoln: Savior of the Union

• Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Born in a small cabin, he rose to the White House. Follow Abraham Lincoln on his adventure to learn and save the nation he so cared about.

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.

Gettysburg National Military Park

Join the Army: The Life of a Civil War Soldier

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

The Civil War soldier’s life was full of hardships, sacrifices, and challenges. This student education program offers a ninety-minute long hands-on program especially for school-age children in Grades 3-6 that will encourage further study of American history and the Civil War.

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.

Andersonville National Historic Site

A list of the Union soldiers buried at Andersonville

• Type: Primary Sources
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Dorence, a prisoner held at Andersonville for eleven months, spent much of his time held at the prison as a paroled prisoner, working in the hospital office as a clerk. It was in this capacity that he made a secret copy of the death register. He and Clara Barton accompanied the Army expedition to Andersonville in the summer of 1865.

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.

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

Breaking into the Army Nurse Corps: How Black Nurses Demanded to Serve

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Adult Education

How did African American women break into the Army Nurse Corps? The nurses of the Army Nurse Corps were an essential part of the war effort. The African American nurses fought to serve their country and to be there for the Black soldiers they treated. Though hurdles were laid in their way, these women succeeded in enlisting in the Army. Many Black nurses went on to serve around the world and perform ground-breaking research.

Theodore Roosevelt Island

Mr. Lincoln's Soldiers

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

Mr. Lincoln's Soldiers is a two and a half hour program that gives students hands-on experience exploring life as a Union army recruit at Camp Greene, which was located on Theodore Roosevelt Island during the Civil War. The island provides an ideal setting for examining such concepts as the abolition of slavery, the experience of African American soldiers in the Civil War, and the effects that serving in the Union Army had on soldiers.

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.

Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park

We Want You!

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

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.

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

What is a Buffalo Soldier to Wear?

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

Army regulations determine what soldiers can wear. Between 1866 and 1902, the Buffalo Soldiers experienced a variety of climates as they were stationed out west and abroad. How did Army regulations adapt their uniform policies based on the experiences of the Army, including of the Buffalo Soldiers? Students will take on the role of the Generals in the Army in charge of military uniforms. They will help decide what changes, if any, are needed to the Buffalo Soldiers uniforms.

Valley Forge National Historical Park

Valley Forge: By the Numbers

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

The Continental Army marches into Valley Forge on December 19, 1777.

Fort Larned National Historic Site

I Heard a Coyote Howl

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Share the tragedy of a young Indian boy whose home will be destroyed by the US Army.

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

War Has Been Declared: Middle School Lesson Plan

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

Students analyze the primary document, the Emancipation Proclamation and how it affected the Civil War and southern states. They work in teams to creatively share learned information from NPS videos about one of the final pushes in the Civil War, the Atlanta Campaign through Georgia. They listen to and draw meaning from soldier and author, Ambrose Bierce.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Events That Led up to the Revolutionary War

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

How did a tax on sugar, stamps and quartering the British army led to a Revolutionary War?

Fort Larned National Historic Site

A Day in the Life of a Frontier Soldier

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Find out what it takes to be a soldier in frontier army. And visit the barracks where soldiers at Fort Larned lived.

Gettysburg National Military Park

Tide of Battle

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

There were many "turning point" moments of the Battle of Gettysburg, each critical to the battle's ultimate outcome. In three-part virtual field trip/distance learning program, students will analyze primary source documents including maps, officers' reports, and soldier accounts, from three different Union regiments and then developing their own response to the essential question of which they believed to have been the most important "turning point."