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Gateway Arch National Park
Trial for the Right to Vote: Virginia Minor v. Happersett
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In a room on the second floor of the St. Louis Courthouse in 1873, Virginia Louisa Minor sued a city registrar for denying her the right the register to vote. What was her argument? In this mock trial, students will reenact the 1873 trial, listen to both sides, and reach their own verdict in the case.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson introduces students to the Kecoughtan people, an Indigenous Tribe that was located in what is now Hampton, Virginia. Students will examine the idea of "home" by learning about different aspects of life in the Kecoughtan's town.
Shenandoah National Park
4th-10th Grade | Shenandoah National Park: Virginia's Gift to the Nation
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Shenandoah National Park is a significant part of our nation’s history as well as Virginia’s environment and economy. In this lesson, students will explore the historical, cultural, economic, and ecological significance of the Park through classroom activities and a field trip.
Shenandoah National Park
5th Grade | Shenandoah National Park: Gem of the Blue Ridge
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Shenandoah National Park is an important natural and cultural resource in Virginia’s Blue Ridge geographic region. Students in the 9 Virginia counties that border this long and narrow national park will discover those resources with ranger-led in-class activities such as analyzing artifacts, investigating geologic samples, and writing creative responses while gaining classroom knowledge about Virginia’s history, geology, and geography.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn why this home in Fredericksburg, Virginia, was a center of military activity, and consider the impact the war had on those whose property became part of the battlefield.
- 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.
Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
After Appomattox: Artifacts of Slavery and Freedom
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, ending the Civil War. Use this online activity to learn about the historical events and their impacts at this small village, especially for enslaved African Americans.
Shenandoah National Park
6th Grade | Virtual Shenandoah Watersheds
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Shenandoah National Park lies at the headwaters for three of Virginia’s watersheds. Through virtual exploration and observation of a mountain stream, students will connect local water sources with larger watersheds and better understand the dynamics of stream life and the extensive impacts of water management and usage. 60 minutes
Cowpens National Battlefield
Escape the Battlefield, Win the War!
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The Southern Campaign of the American Revolution was the catalyst for the eventual surrender of General Cornwallis and the British at Yorktown, Virginia. Students will be given an escape room mystery to solve related to certain battles of the Southern Campaign. They will have 60 minutes to solve the given mystery and get out of the escape room.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson plan examines the home of US Supreme Court Justice John Marshall and his public and private roles.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn about the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down "separate but equal".
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Introduction to Bent's Old Fort PowerPoint Presentation
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
A preliminary summary presentation of the people, events, cultures, and commercial significance of Bent's Fort trading post back in the 1830's and 1840's. The outline for the presentation is as follows: I. Geography II. Historical Context III. People of the Plains IV. Fur Trade Era V. Santa Fe Trail VI. After Bent's Fort
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
The Battle of Harpers Ferry, 1862: Harpers Ferry is the Key!
- Type: Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
When war broke out in April 1861, Harpers Ferry was still producing weapons for the U.S. Government, but that spring, the Confederates dismantled both weapons’ factories and sent the machines south. Teachers will find three resources for use in the classroom: a drawing of a Civil War soldier, list of items soldiers carried or wore, and a map of Northern Virginia and part of Maryland.
Shenandoah National Park
Life at Lewis Mountain
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This interactive program takes students through the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and the struggle to make all of Shenandoah National Park for all people.
Booker T Washington National Monument
War on the Home Front: Civil War Reading Passage with Graphic Organizer
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Civil War and its outcomes were life-changing events for all the people, both free and enslaved, who were associated with the Burroughs Plantation from 1850 – 1865. Students will learn about: •Life on a piedmont Virginia, slaveholding tobacco farm •National debate on slavery/Differences between North and South •Why the war was fought •How the enslaved and their owners reacted to the war •How each group was affected after the war
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Study personal accounts of soldiers who fought in the first battle of the Civil War, and debate whether the U.S. should maintain historic sites where few substantial remains exist.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Captain John Smith's map of the Chesapeake.
Maggie L Walker National Historic Site
“Nickels to Dollars”: Maggie L. Walker's Quest for African American Economic Empowerment
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will pretend to go back in time to 1903 when Maggie Walker chartered the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank. They will use a 3D replica of, or the computer aided models of, the 1927 Maggie Walker collection bank to learn about the economic tools African Americans used to resist discrimination and uplift their communities during the Jim Crow era. Este plan de clase con actividades incluido también está disponible en español.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Meet John Marshall, who led the U.S. Supreme Court from obscurity and weakness to prominence and power in the early 19th century.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The War of 1812, which pitted the United States, Great Britain and their allies against each over the course of three years, turned into an opportunity for enslaved African Americans to advocate for their freedom. Between the summers of 1813 and 1814, 4,000-5,000 fled to the side of the British, in the hopes of securing freedom and safe passage for themselves and their families.