Filter Your Results
- Lesson Plan (166)
- Field Trips (36)
- Distance Learning (25)
- Primary Sources (10)
- Student Activities (10)
- Guest Speakers (9)
- Traveling Trunk (6)
- Teacher Reference Materials (3)
- Online Galleries (2)
- Other Education Materials (2)
- Media for Loan (1)
- Teacher Workshops & Other Programs (1)
- Andersonville National Historic Site (18)
- Fort Scott National Historic Site (16)
- Women's Rights National Historical Park (14)
- Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park (12)
- Gettysburg National Military Park (9)
- Fort Donelson National Battlefield (8)
- New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park (8)
- Wright Brothers National Memorial (8)
- Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site (7)
- Show More ...
- Social Studies (251)
- Literacy and Language Arts (92)
- Science (21)
- Math (19)
Showing 265 results for civil right ...
- Type: Online Galleries
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Collect stories about the Civil War and civil rights! The National Park Service is offering more than 500 trading cards to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Cane River Creole National Historical Park
Civil Rights Leaders Bingo
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Discover Civil Rights Leaders through this fun and interactive BINGO game! Students will learn about national and local leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr, Harriet Tubman, Dr. E. A. Johnson, and Rosa Parks.
Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park
LBJ and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Learn about President Johnson's legislation actions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Eisenhower National Historic Site
Eisenhower and Little Rock: A Civil Rights Lesson
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort African-American students to Central High School in Little Rock in Sept. 1957, after the governor of Arkansas tried to enforce segregation. Photo courtesy National Archives. Operation Arkansas
Independence National Historical Park
The Liberty Bell as a Symbol for Civil Rights, grades 4-8
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will examine primary sources to discover the connection between the inscription on the Liberty Bell and the Civil Rights Movement.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
Women’s Rights are Human Rights
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this series of four lesson plans from the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor, students will be able to explore the development and growth of the American women's rights movement. This includes lessons about the Seneca Falls Convention, the Erie Canal, and the later women's rights movement. Developed by educator Lynn Girven of the Rochester City School District.
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
Civil Rights Then and Now (Grades 9-12) Carl Sandburg Home NHS
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
How are civil rights similar and different to 100 years ago?
First State National Historical Park
Rights, Rules and Privileges
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This program explores the differences between rights, rules and privileges and the need for government and laws. Students have to determine if something is a right, a rule or a privilege. This program takes place at the New Castle Court House Museum.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
Be a Women's Rights Influencer
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will research women’s rights and reform advocates from the nineteenth century. Students will choose one activist and act as their social media manager. Students will create a social media plan for the platform of their choice and highlight their reformer’s story.
Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park
The "Five Civilized Tribes"
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
village of the Mississippian culture ancestors of the Five Civilized Tribes
Antietam National Battlefield
Women in the Civil War
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This lesson plan can be used to help your students explore some of the important roles that women had during the Civil War.
Federal Hall National Memorial
Federal Hall and the Bill of Rights
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will learn about the Bill of Rights, its significance to Federal Hall, and create their own Bill of Rights.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The Forgotten Warriors of the Civil War is the story of the tragic effect that the American Civil War had upon the tribes of the Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma). More than any other particular group in the United States at the time, the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole (the Five Civilized Tribes) were divided between loyalty to the Union and the secessionist Southern states. This lesson will teach students about why this “civil war within a civil war” occurred.
Cane River Creole National Historical Park
The Civil War Comes to Louisiana
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Scott's Great Snake also known as the Anaconda Plan.
- Type: Student Activities ... Online Galleries ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
In this four-part video series, Park Ranger Nick Sacco examines the history of voting rights in the United States. The first three videos focus on changes, progressions, and setbacks in voting rights during the 19th Century, while the fourth video explores debates over voting rights and fair elections in the present.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
Rights and Privileges- High School Level
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This program will share the story of the Seneca Falls 1848 Convention for Woman's Rights. The program consists of several assignments designed to help students recognize the difference between a right and a privilege and apply their knowledge to those who organized and attended the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
Rights and Privileges- Middle School Level
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This program will share the story of the Seneca Falls 1848 Convention for Woman's Rights. The program consists of several assignments designed to help students recognize the difference between a right and a privilege and apply their knowledge to those who organized and attended the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention.
Gateway Arch National Park
Civil War in the West Traveling Trunk
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
What was it like to live in the Midwest during the Civil War? This traveling trunk will explore the Civil War through the eyes of two children who grew up in St. Louis during the nineteenth century. Although they did not live on the edge of any major battles, they felt the conflict and tension that the war years brought with it.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn why this home in Fredericksburg, Virginia, was a center of military activity, and consider the impact the war had on those whose property became part of the battlefield.
Andersonville National Historic Site
The American Civil War: A Humanitarian Perspective
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learning about humanitarian law helps students connect lessons of the past with the issues of the present. Students will explore historical events through the lives of those who experienced the American Civil War and will participate in hands-on exercises that make for challenging and exciting class projects and discussions. The lessons will also help students develop critical thinking skills and character.