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Cowpens National Battlefield

Colonial Games

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

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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: A Moravian Settlement in Colonial America

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

Learn why Moravians immigrated to the New World and how the towns they established embodied their religious beliefs.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Kids in Colonial Times

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

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Alaska’s Matanuska Colony

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

The New Deal reform, recovery, and relief programs changed the relationship between American’s and their government in revolutionary ways. The Resettlement Administration (RA), Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), and the Farm Security Administration (FSA) were programs to get displaced families off relief. More than eighty years after the Matanuska Colony was established much of it remains to tell the story of the New Deal resettlement program in Alaska.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Colonial Correspondence Material

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

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Cultural Legacy of Spanish Colonialism

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Are you teaching your students to identify cultural contributions and perspectives? Are you looking for an opportunity to share how the age of exploration and European colonialism influenced early America? Invite Park Rangers from Castillo de San Marcos and Fort Matanzas into your classroom through live video conferencing!

Cowpens National Battlefield

Then and Now (Colonial Comparison Student Activity)

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

Using replicas of common items, students try to identify the objects and determine the purpose.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Colonial Games 2nd and 3rd Grade

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

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Digging into the Colonial Past: Archeology and the 16th-Century Spanish Settlements at Charlesfort-Santa Elena

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

Both France and Spain raced to settle and control the southern coast of North America. On a small island off the coast of present-day South Carolina lie the ruins of Charlesfort, the French outpost for a year, which later became Santa Elena, a Spanish colonial town from 1566 to 1587. The site has been abandoned now for more than 400 years.

Flight 93 National Memorial

America Attacked

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Program Objectives: Students will be able to: 1. Name three terrorist and their role in the September 11, 2001, attack 2. List two events leading up to the attacks on September 11 that had an impact on national security 3. Name the four targets and potential targets selected by the terrorist on September 11

Flight 93 National Memorial

Attack on America

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students visit the Memorial Plaza and learn of the events of September 11, 2001

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Symbols of America

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

Students will learn what a symbol is and why symbols are used. They will learn symbols of both America and of South Dakota, as well as the significance behind these symbols.

Weir Farm National Historical Park

Weir Am I? (Grades 1-4)

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

A variety of classroom activities that can be done as stand-alone lessons or as a Pre-Visit/ Post-Visit lessons with a visit to Weir Farm.

Yellowstone National Park

Who Am I? (A lesson on animals and their habitats)

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

Each student researches an animal that inhabits Yellowstone National Park and prepares an Animal Profile Card with ten facts about each animal. Students share Profile Cards and attempt to identify the unidentified animals.

Alaska Public Lands

Russian History Kit

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This kit brings the story of Russia's colonial history in North America to life. Explore Alaska's Russian influence and cultural exchanges through stories and activities.

Saugus Iron Works: Life and Work at an Early American Industrial Site

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

Unearth the remains of colonial America's first fully integrated ironworks, and consider what reconstruction of the site reveals about daily life for some early European settlers.

Roger Williams National Memorial

A Key Into the Language Of America

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

This lesson plan introduces students to "A Key into the Language of America" and provides a glimpse into the complex relationship Williams had with the Narragansett and gives a first-hand account of 17th-century native culture. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to answer the question: How did Roger Williams’ A Key into the Language of America foster understanding of daily life, work, and relationships between the Native Americans and colonists?

Art Speaks! Visual Arts & the Significance of Place

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

How can art help you understand history? Use this lesson plan to help your students connect the idea of significance and memorial.

Colonial National Historical Park

Civilian Conservation Corps

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

By completing a Break Out Edu type activity, students will discover what the Civilian Conservation Corps contributed to Colonial National Historic Park during the Neal Deal by deciphering clues that require students to read articles, encyclopedia entries, and a map.

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.