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Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site

Assiniboine Children

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Fort Union epitomizes the mutually advantageous interaction of American Indian and European American cultures associated with the fur-trading empire on the Upper Missouri region of the American frontier. This reference document describes aspects of Assiniboine life, Assiniboine childhood, and the tools used by adults.

George Washington Birthplace National Monument

When George Washington Was a Child

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

When George Washington Was a Child Materials will be mailed when reservation is made. Please call [phone] ext. 227 for further questions or to inquire about making a reservation.

Invasive Species Children's Storybook

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

Students begin this activity listening to a children’s storybook that teaches them about a science concept. They will then be challenged to use their creativity to write a children’s story that young children could read to learn about invasive species. In the process of writing the book, their understanding of invasive species and their impact on the environment will be further enhanced.

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

Women and Children in the Mill Village

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

In this lesson, students will learn about the role women and children played in the community at Mill Villages. They will analyze a series of photographs using the "I see… I think… I feel… I wonder…" literacy strategy.

Ninety Six National Historic Site

Lives of Backcountry Children Traveling Trunk

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

The Lives of Backcountry Children trunk is designed to enrich your students' studies of the daily life of frontier boys and girls in the 18th century. Along with a variety of artifacts the trunk also includes various lessons and activities. Just a few examples of lesions and activities included are Colonial Clothing, Colonial Children’s Chores, and Colonial Games and Music.

Appomattox Court House National Historical Park

Perspectives After the Surrender at Appomattox CH

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

This program will allow students to think about the different perspectives of those who lived through the Civil War, and how various viewpoints interpreted the events surrounding the Surrender Meeting at Appomattox. This program consists of several assignments designed to help students explore these differences through the stories of three people present at Appomattox Court House in 1865.

Lowell National Historical Park

Change Over Time: Through Children's Eyes Virtual Field Trip

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

Discover the stories of people who came from all over the world to Lowell and who now make up the city’s diverse community. By investigating primary sources, oral histories, and objects, students learn about the immigrant groups who arrived in the U.S. in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, including why they came, how they met the challenges of settling in a different environment, and how they contributed to their new community.

Swimming on Your Back- Sea Otters in Alaska

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

Activities for children to learn about sea otters in Alaska.

Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site

Life on the Frontier: 4th - 5th grade

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

There are many questions people ask when they start learning about history. Frequently, those questions are about everyday experiences. What was it like to be a child growing up on the frontier? How did children get to school? What types of toys did children have to play with? How did they cook food?

Wind Cave National Park

Fossils!

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

A fun activity for small children. They can choose what fossil to make and then paint it.

Statue Of Liberty National Monument

Be A Gumshoe: Self-Guided Activity

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

Children's activity program at Statue of Liberty NM. 3rd grade through 5th Grade.

First State National Historical Park

Growing up in the 18th Century

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

Discover what it was like to be a child in the 18th century. This field trip takes place around The Dover Green.

Fort Stanwix National Monument

My New Home On-Site Education Program

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Hands-on learning stations will introduce students to the lives of the children who followed their soldier fathers during the war.

Acadia National Park

Outdoor Plant Adaptation Hunt

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

What adaptations do plants have to help them survive? This activity explores outdoors and gets children looking at plants.

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site

How Theodore Roosevelt Became a Leader

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

Students will learn how Theodore Roosevelt grew from a sickly child to one of our nation's most accomplished leaders.

Shenandoah National Park

Kindergarten | Sense Scientists

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

A child investigates the world and learns about his/her surroundings through the five senses. Shenandoah National Park is a great place to expand a child’s sense of wonder and develop observation skills through hands-on discovery and nature experiences. Students will learn stewardship behaviors and find ways they can help protect and preserve the environment.

The Freeman School: Building Prairie Communities

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

One community, one room. Discover the red-brick schoolhouse where a frontier town's children learned and its families gathered.

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

A Kid's Life in Atlanta

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

This interactive program takes children back in time to see what life was like for a 10 year old girl during the siege of Atlanta.

Herbert Hoover: Iowa Farm Boy and World Humanitarian

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

Consider the impact of Hoover's boyhood years on his desire to help starving children as the administrator of the Belgian Relief Commission during World War I.

First State National Historical Park

Then and Now

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

Compares and contrasts historical information about the lifestyles of the Dickinson family, children, tenants, and slaves with modern times. This field trip takes place at the John Dickinson Plantation.