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First Ladies National Historic Site

First Ladies and Technology

• Type: Distance Learning ... Field Trips ... Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

How would your life be different without technology? For First Ladies, their job would be a lot harder! In this program, we’ll learn how First Ladies Jackie Kennedy, Michelle Obama, and Eleanor Roosevelt used radio, television, and Social Media in their role and explore the science behind their technologies.

Wright Brothers National Memorial

Transformations & First Flight

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

In this in-classroom lesson plan, students will create their own model of the 1903 Wright Flyer and translate, reflect, and rotate the model on a coordinate plane. Subject: Mathematics. Grades: 6th-8th.

History Detective: First Strike!

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

Historians use evidence to draw conclusions about the past. Sometimes, we are still left with uncertainty and there is a lot that we don’t know about this strike. How exactly did people find resolution in June 1824? Using primary source documents, students will piece together their own version of the story and engage in historical research.

First Ladies National Historic Site

First Lady Fashion: The Victorians

• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Picture Mary Lincoln at the White House in a floor length gown with a skirt with a diameter of 3 feet! Or imagine Ida McKinley dressed formally in a ruffled dress with a high collar over a tight corset! It may be hard to imagine now, but giant hoop skirts, corsets, and bird feathers were all popular fashion trends at one time. During this program, we’ll look closely at these fashion trends and let them reveal the stories of the lives of women during this time

First Flight or Fake News?

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

How do you tell what's real and what's fake? Students will explore this question by comparing three texts about the Wright brothers’ first flight in order to determine what actually happened that historic day. Subject(s): English Language Arts, Social Studies. Grade(s): 3rd-5th.

Wright Brothers National Memorial

Distance, Speed, and Time of the First Flight

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

How did the Wright brothers know they had successfully achieved the first flight? Three days before what we know of as the first flights, Wilbur took a test flight from the base of Kill Devil Hill. During this on-site lesson plan, students will explore the flight line using the distance/rate/speed equation and will decide why Orville's flight on December 17th earns the title of first flight. Subject: Mathematics. Grade: 6th-8th.

First Battle of Manassas: An End to Innocence

• 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.

Wright Brothers National Memorial

The First Four Flights--Math Up!

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

This lesson plan will allow students to understand the path that led to the Wrights' success on December 17, 1903 by relating the stories of their interest in flying from youth, the growing interest in flight in the late 1890s and the flight experiments that led to their first flights in 1903. The story of their dream to fly will be used as a backdrop for students to solve relevant mathematical problems and connect with Wright Brothers National Memorial.

Tonto National Monument

The FIRST Field Trip to Tonto National Monument

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

Students will be able to state the differences between primary and secondary sources; students will be able to give examples of each type of source. After reading a primary source, students will be able to retell the story of the first field trip to Tonto National Monument.

The White House and President's Park

Lafayette Park: First Amendment Rights on the President’s Doorstep

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

Learn how a group of determined women selected Lafayette Park, across from the White House, to demonstrate for their right to vote, providing a First Amendment model for many others.

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site

First Lady of the World: Eleanor Roosevelt at Val-Kill

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

Examine how Roosevelt's use of her at home reflected her interest in human rights and her leadership in creating the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Redwood National and State Parks

Structure and Function - Animal Teeth (First Grade: Lesson 2 of 3)

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Redwood National and State Parks

Structure and Function - Banana Slugs (First Grade: Lesson 1 of 3)

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

This video introduces the students to Redwood National and State Parks, structure and function, and provides an example of different structures and their functions of the banana slug.

Women's Rights National Historical Park

Revolutionary Roots: the First Women’s Rights Convention held at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, NY

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

How does a social movement grow? Join a ranger to meet the five organizers of the 1848 Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention and learn more about the Wesleyan Chapel in which it was held. Discover how Faith, Fortune and Fate combined to ignite a movement.

Can You Outrun the Wright Flyer?

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

The Wright Flying Machine

Wright or Wrong

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

Were Wilbur and Orville Wright really the first people to fly? In this in-class lesson plan, students will perform research and debate two points of view in order to answer that question. Subject: English Language Arts. Grades: 6th-8th.

Tumacácori National Historical Park

Pancho's Scrapbook

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

Hear the entire story of Tumacácori from someone who witnessed it first hand (or is it "first wing?").

Wright Brothers National Memorial

Wind Speed Scatter Plot

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

The Wrights first flight

First Ladies National Historic Site

Decorating with a Purpose

• Type: Distance Learning ... Field Trips ... Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

In 1961, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy began the tradition of first ladies choosing a theme for the White House Christmas decorations. In this program we’ll talk about historic decorations and what we can learn about the role of first lady through modern decorations.