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Watershed Lessons
LESSON 10: LANGUAGE LESSON- NONC BELOUTE
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This is a fun and catchy song. Using it in the lessons will add to the fun. Students will learn additional Kréyol phrases. It is hoped that word and phrases are beginning to sound familiar due to previous lessons. Follow same template as HEY NOM and SAN MALÓ.
LESSON 5 - HEY NOM: FIRST LANGUAGE LESSON
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This is the first of the language lessons in this unit. The lessons are designed to be delivered by teachers with no knowledge of Kréyol, French, or the teaching of foreign languages. They are not designed to make students fluent speakers, but instead to familiarize them with the language.
Lessons from the Land
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

How have Alaska Natives, gold rush prospectors, hunter-naturalists, and visitors to Denali National Park and Preserve made use of this land through time? Find out in this fun, history-rich program, where we explore multiple land-use perspectives from past to present, and ultimately look forward into the future.
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
Lesson 3 - RESISTANCE
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This is the third set of lessons in a multi lesson unit. 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
Lesson 4 - ESCAPE
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This is the fourth set of lessons in a multi lesson unit. In this unit students journal in the first person as if they are passing through the experience of Escape. 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
Santafetrail.org Activities and Lessons
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The Santa Fe Trail Association, the official partner of the Santa Fe National Historic Trail, offers a plethora of activities and packets for grades K-8. This site also offers a number of additional resources, including an interactive trail map with detailed explanations of each stop on the trail. Resources could easily be adapted to fit any curriculum!
permineralization Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan Removed
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Listing Removal In Progress
Lesson 1 - THE CULTURE CONCEPT
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This curriculum is based on the collaborative ethnography Talk That Music Talk: Passing on Brass Band Music in New Orleans the Traditional Way, by Bruce Sunpie Barnes and Rachel Breunlin, published by UNO Press in 2014. Visit https://www.neighborhoodstoryproject.org/talk-that-music-talk for information on obtaining the book and a full book of lesson plans.
Lesson 3 - PHOTO ANALYSIS
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This lesson introduces students to the Civil Rights Movement’s direct-actions against segregation. In the 1960s, the New Orleans chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality participated in the Freedom Rides throughout the South. Students will examine a collection of photographs that includes four mug shots of C.O.R.E. activists and a Mississippi cotton field.
Lesson 5 - IN SEARCH OF HARMONY
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Anthony Bennett explains he encourages young people to get involved in music because, “it affects the way you live, and the way that you deal with people. To say it simply, it creates a harmony in you. This peace. It comes in colors.” This lesson will look at how music brought people together in New Orleans by doing a photographic analysis, and then linking the images back to the story lines in the book.
Lesson 2 - MAROONED FOR FREEDOM
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This lesson uses a song from the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park cd Remembering 300: The Arrowhead Jazz Band, and a podcast from New Orleans Public Radio: More Than A Runaway: Maroons In Louisiana, https://www.wwno.org/post/more-runaway-maroons-louisiana . It concerns the history of free settlements established by escaped slaves in isolated areas of Louisiana, and the most famous leader of those settlements, San Malo, also called St. Malo or Juan Malo
LESSON 9- LANGUAGES OF POWER
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will read the text and engage in discussion to examine how language can be a source of power and resistance. They will fill in a summary sheet on the reading.
Finding a Home Lesson Plan
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will: describe some of the feelings immigrants faced when deciding on a new settlement in the United States; contrast the benefits and drawbacks of living in a new location when determining a place to live and compare that to the choices immigrants make past and present; and formulate several reasons why immigrants elected to live in selected areas.
Less Pollution: The Best Solution
The Bean Lab: Elementary Lesson
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Cultural Contact Lesson Plan
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade