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Art Speaks! Visual Arts & the Significance of Place

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

How can art help you understand history? Use this lesson plan to help your students connect the idea of significance and memorial.

Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument

Ellis Island: ARTifact!

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

With just a little love for the arts needed, students get a chance to express their favorite artifacts on paper as they explore the Ellis Island galleries.

Statue Of Liberty National Monument

Statue of Liberty: ARTifact!

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

Buffalo National River

The Art of Field Guiding

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

This lesson plan was made to help students understand the importance of field guides and how to create their own.

National Park of American Samoa

Samoan Art in the Tatau (Tattoo)

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

The Samoa islands are a beautiful tropical paradise located in the South Pacific Ocean. The islands are rich in culture, history, legend, and known for its beautiful landscape and climate. One of the most legendary parts of Samoan culture is the tatau or tattoos represent the spiritual and cultural heritage of the islands.

Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park

Do Artifacts Tell Stories?

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

How do the artifacts tell the stories of the soldiers and camp women who served in the Civil War? In this lesson, students: Compare and contrast what Civil War soldiers used during their free time and what you use today Learn how artifacts tell us about the life of a Civil War soldier

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Art Criticism and Mount Rushmore

• Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Through reading the essay, "The White Bird," by John Berger, students will learn about the qualities of art and how art can shape human perception. They will then use this to help reflect on Mount Rushmore as art.

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.

Weir Farm National Historical Park

Art Alive! (Grades 1-4)

• Type: Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students participating in a field trip at Weir Farm National Historical Park learn about the three generations of American artists who lived and painted her, and experience the authentic, untouched landscape that inspired them. Here are additional pre-visit and post-visit classroom activities for your students!

Weir Farm National Historical Park

Art Alive! (Grades 5-8)

• Type: Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students participating in a field trip at Weir Farm National Historical Park learn about the three generations of American artists who lived and painted her, and experience the authentic, untouched landscape that inspired them. Here are additional pre-visit and post-visit classroom activities for your students!

Weir Farm National Historical Park

Art Alive! (Grades 9-12)

• Type: Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students participating in a field trip at Weir Farm National Historical Park learn about the three generations of American artists who lived and painted her, and experience the authentic, untouched landscape that inspired them. Here are additional pre-visit and post-visit classroom activities for your students!

Grand Canyon National Park

Native Art and Activism of the Grand Canyon

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

The area known today as the Grand Canyon has been home to people for over 13,000 years, with 11 contemporary tribes having links to the area. Many individuals in these tribes have inspired their own communities, and the country, with their traditional art. Some tribal members have bestowed historic structures around the canyon with their artwork, while others have utilized art as one of many tools towards activism and uplifting their communities.

Minuteman Missile National Historic Site

Morale Art of the Cold War Era

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

Morale art played a huge role in affecting the patriotism and pride in the workplace for our servicemen and women. Examine pictures of blast door art and other murals, read about the daily duty of the missileers, and discuss the reason for creating this artwork. Then create your own!

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Arts Crafts Clothing and Appearance: Parfleche, Quillwork, Basketry

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

Many arts and crafts of the Hidatsa served a utilitarian purpose such as parfleches, which were multipurpose cases made of rawhide, and burdon baskets that could carry large amounts of much needed items like vegetables. In this lesson, students will explore how burdon baskets and parfleches were made then construct, make and decorate a replica parfleche.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Arts, Crafts, Clothing and Appearance: Flint, Pottery, Painting

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

Hidatsas and Mandans made tools, housewares, clothing, toys, and musical instruments from things that were available nearby or sometimes farther off if the material was important in the production of the item. In this lesson, students will tell a story by designing a buffalo robe like people did during Knife River Village days and they will discuss and portray how people might describe the life-ways of today one hundred years from the present using their media of choice.

Art and Archeology: “Crashing the Gates” with Ann Axtell Morris

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

Ann Axtell was a prominent archeologist, artist, and author. Ann spent much of her time recording and painting architecture, petroglyphs and pictographs, landscapes, and expedition work. Many of her recording methods are still in use today by modern archeologists. Este plan de clase con actividades incluido también está disponible en español.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 10 Artifact Activities

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

This unit has students reenact a tollhouse on the National Road where the students are required to calculate the toll rates charged and use coins to pay the correct toll. The students also use their math skills while participating in two different activities to calculate distances using the miles listed on the mile markers.

Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical Park

Nature, Art and Conservation at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park

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

Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School, stated “The ravages of the axe are daily increasing desecration by what is called improvement; which as yet generally destroys Nature’s beauty without substituting that of Art.” This unit, Nature, Art and Conservation at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park, will explore this very issue through on-site visits, school based lessons and independent research. For this unit students will begin by reading Marsh’s Man and Nature...

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

The French and Indian War 1754-1763: Primary Documents and Artifacts - Unit 8

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

This unit includes one lesson plan: “Working with Primary Documents and Artifacts." Students read about one of 14 primary documents or artifacts associated with the French and Indian War, and then analyze the document or artifact.

George Washington Carver National Monument

George Washington Carver National Monument 3rd & 4th Grade Art and Essay Contest

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

George Washington Carver National Monument preserves the birthplace and childhood home of George Washington Carver, renowned scientist, educator, and humanitarian. Carver was a prolific writer and artist. This contest strengthens writing skills and encourages artistic expression.