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Fort Scott National Historic Site
Border Conflict 7th & 8th Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Bleeding Kansas political cartoon.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Border Conflict 5th & 6th grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Bleeding Kansas political cartoon.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Border Conflict 3rd & 4th Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Bleeding Kansas political cartoon.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Trading Post Labor
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail produced a collection of observations that include the multicultural nature of labor in the southwestern borderlands in the 1840s. This lesson offers an opportunity to analyze the Bent, St. Vrain, & Company's dependence on skilled labor from various classes, ethnicities, and national origins.
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
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Architecture
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail gave him exposure to southwestern lifestyles and trading in the 1840s. This lesson offers an opportunity to analyze how architecture is determined from a business perspective as well as identify the factors and consequences that the Bent, St. Vrain, and Company considered while building Bent's Fort.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
White and yellow soils lie open to the southern sun, woody vegetation is sparse and stunted, and turkey vultures soar overhead. Yet Castolon offers more than severity: its history includes a harmonious mixing of the people along the United States-Mexico border.
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.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Trade Goods
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail alongside traders and merchants gave him a firsthand perspective of how trade was conducted during the 1840s in the southern Great Plains. This lesson gives students a chance to practice trading goods and consider historical forms of commerce.