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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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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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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.

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.

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.

Bering Land Bridge National Preserve

Life in the Arctic

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

Join a National Park Service ranger to learn about the tundra, its animals, and what it's like to live in Alaska. In this free virtual program, students will learn how humans, plants, and animals survive in this challenging environment, and why it's important to protect such a unique place.

Fort Scott National Historic Site

Life on The Frontier

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

The purpose of this program is to acquaint the students with life at Fort Scott in the 1840s.

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

Life of a Soldier

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

Life for a soldier of the Atlanta Campaign wasn't easy! This guided program allows students to experience various aspects of that life with the help of a ranger or living historian.

Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

Life in the Extreme

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

Craters of the Moon is one of the harshest environments on earth! Despite these extreme conditions, the park is home to a wide diversity of plant and animal species. During their field trip, students will take measurements in the field, analyze their data, and develop hypotheses about how different micro-environments affect the distribution of plants and animals in the park.

Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

Web of Life

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students learn about the complexity of life and interrelationships between living things by constructing a Craters food web.

Rocky Mountain National Park

Life on the Edge

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

The alpine ecosystem of Rocky Mountain National Park is a unique yet fragile place. Join a ranger in discovering common threats to pikas, ptarmigan, and plants in the "land above the trees". Students will research various threats to this community and apply their knowledge to better understand their local communities.

Glacier National Park

The Web of Life

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will be able to illustrate the interrelationships of W-GIPP animals and plants through the weaving of a simple web.

Glacier National Park

Life in a Log

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

The students will investigate decomposers in a rotting log, and discover some of the organisms living there.

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Web of Life

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

This lesson will help students visualize the interconnections found within the natural world. They will learn the concepts of food chains and food webs, and construct their own food web using the provided worksheet of plants and animals found in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Tumacácori National Historical Park

Life at Tumacácori

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

Students will investigate how mission life differed from traditional O’odham village life. Did mission children go to school? What did they eat? How does construction of a traditional O’odham home compare to a mission church built from mud? Learn why, when, where and how, as you tour the park’s orchard, garden, and church with a ranger. Students will practice using a traditional mano and metate and learn how to “mud” an O’odham home.