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Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
Girl Scouts Brownie Hiker adventure at Carl Sandburg Home NHS
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Follow this Girl Scouts Brownie "Hiker" badge lesson to plan a visit with your scouts at Carl Sandburg Home NHS. Girls will learn to prepare for a hike and learn a new skill as they choose their adventure activities.
Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park
Brown Curriculum Unit
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The Brown Foundation and the National Park Service worked closely to produce this curriculum to provide teachers the resources needed to teach concepts of fairness and social democracy.The Brown curriculum kit includes a Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site handbook; a DVD with two short videos titled Reading, Writing and Resistance and Dialog; and a CD-ROM entitled Brown v. Board of Education: Struggle for Equality with a teacher's guide.
Lake Clark National Park & Preserve
Brown Bear Survival Game
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this lesson, students play a Brown Bear Survival board game, in which they will learn about resource availability and the movement of brown bears. This game and all of the bears in the game are based on actual research conducted by park biologists in Lake Clark National Park.
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
John Brown’s Raid: Readers' Theatre
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
In this Readers' Theatre, students will learn why John Brown chose Harpers Ferry as the objective for his October 1859 raid, an event that was to be the beginning of the end of slavery in the U.S. They will also discover what happened during and after the raid, and have the opportunity to debate the question: Would you have joined John Brown’s raiders?
Martin Van Buren National Historic Site
‘Henry ‘Box’ Brown: An Extraordinary Journey to Freedom’
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
‘Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad,’ is a Caldecott Honor children’s book that sensitively introduces the experience of enslavement through the personal story of Henry ‘Box’ Brown whom successfully obtained his freedom by mailing himself to Philadelphia. The program consists of reading a book and completing thematic activities designed to fulfil national as well as New York State curriculum standards.
Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
Conflicting Values: John Brown and Adin Ballou
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This lesson plan invites students to consider the conflicting views of leading abolitionists in the years leading to the Civil War. There is a special focus on Adin Ballou, a Practical Christian who advocated for non-resistance, and leaders who supported violent tactics.
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
Incident at Harpers Ferry: Slavery and John Brown
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this lesson, students will share their thoughts on slavery, examine how our country dealt with this institution, consider how both pro-slavery elements and abolitionists looked at slavery and why, and learn a little about John Brown’s early life - in particular, his activities out in Kansas in the years 1855 – 1857. Students will then be able to answer the following essential question: What was slavery like in the antebellum United States?
Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park
Brown v. Board of Education: Five Communities That Changed America
- Type: Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson is based on the National Historic Landmark Nominations, "Robert Russa Moton High School" (with photographs), "Sumner and Monroe Elementary Schools" (with photographs), "Howard High School" (with photographs),and "John Philip Sousa Middle School" (with photographs), as well as the National Register Nomination for "Summerton High School," and the National Historic Landmark Survey theme study entitled Racial Desegregation in Public Education in the United States.
- 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".
Gateway Arch National Park
My Family Story
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Scouts will discover how stories of long ago, gathered from oral histories, photographs, letters, and diaries, can help us learn about where we came from and who we are while exploring the Museum at the Gateway Arch.
Gateway Arch National Park
Celebrating Community
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
In this program, scouts will explore the Museum at the Gateway Arch and its history galleries to discover how communities celebrate and honor special people and events in the past and today.
Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park
Lights, Camera, Action Lesson Plan
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Who were the key figures in the Brown v. Board of Education court case? How did they contribute to desegregation?
George Washington Carver National Monument
George Washington Carver - The Artist: The Plant Doctor
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
A Black-Eyed Susan flower, with yellow petals and a brown/black center, commonly found on tallgrass prairie at George Washington Carver National Monument
Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve
Bears of Glacier Bay Lesson One: Name That Bear
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn what the differences are between brown bears and black bears, and along the way, you'll learn how a bear's growth, development, and maturation compares to a human.
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
Debating Abolition
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Should you kill to end slavery? This program works with students to understand the range of options open to abolitionists, from pacifist William Lloyd Garrison to the violence of John Brown.
Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park
Web Quest Curriculum Unit
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
A cooperative activity where students identify each of the five cases included in the Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision, explore how the NAACP was involved, and how explore the significance of the "separate but equal" clause.
Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park
Self-Guided Gallery Tours
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Photos, exhibits and interpretive media are combined to offer a summary of hardships due to racial injustice. Explore interactive exhibits relating to the Civil Rights Movement that followed in the wake of the decision in the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education gallery. Appropriate for ages 12 and up only.
Lake Clark National Park & Preserve
Carrying Capacity and Bears in Alaska
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This lesson allows students to learn about the concept of carrying capacity by looking at the factors that allow animals to thrive in some areas, but not in others. Students will learn about the brown bears of Lake Clark National Park and the Denali area to see why some are leading successful lives and reproducing often and why some aren’t doing as well.
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
Historical Characters
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this activity, students will learn about nine key participants in the Battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma and the Siege of Fort Brown. They will discover how the personalities of these key leaders helped them during these clashes and influenced their outcome. Students them compare their own personality traits to discover how they are like or different from these leaders.
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
War Has Been Declared: Elementary Lesson Plan
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students create a timeline of events leading to the Civil War based on a series of articles from the National Park Service. Students will explore the issue of slavery as a major cause starting with the Missouri Compromise, The Dred Scott Decision, The Election of Lincoln, John Brown's Raid, and the numerous states secessions. Then, students become part of a regiment and complete hands-on activities as they discover the structure of an army.