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TX Tortoise Coloring Page
Leapin' Lizards Coloring Sheet
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Through many years of changing habitats and adapting to their surroundings, most of our lizards are white in coloration. Use this coloring sheet to invent your own lizard with colors that would help it hide in your choice of environment!
Colonial Games
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
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George Washington Carver - The Artist: A Colorful South
Henry O. Flipper, Colored Cadet at West Point
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Adult Education

Henry O. Flipper was born enslaved and became the first African American officer and graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1877. However, during his fifth year of service, on June 30, 1882, he was dishonorably discharged from the Army. Flipper fought to regain his honor for the rest of his life. He continued to serve as a public servant, working for the Department of the Interior as well as an engineer.
1st Kansas Colored Infantry 5th & 6th Grade
1st Kansas Colored Infantry, 3rd & 4th Grade
1st Kansas Colored Infantry 7th & 8th Grade
Kids in Colonial Times
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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- 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.
Colonial Correspondence Material
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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- 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!
Research Made Real – Using National Park Service Web Pages to Locate Primary Sources
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.
Colonial Games 2nd and 3rd Grade
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
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The Many Faces of Delaware Water Gap
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Rocks don't have to be dull! Park rangers, federal geologists, and local teachers worked together to prove it! These curriculum-based field trips explore five locations in the park in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. This two-color, 125-page binder provides background material, a glossary, directions to sites, and practical suggestions for field trips, and explores both famous and little-known evidence of the park's formation.
- 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.
Traveling the National Road: Unit 3 Travelers and Transportation on the National Road
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This unit covers travelers and transportation on the National Road, teaching the students what types of vehicles traveled the road and what it was like to travel. It includes background information for the teacher, two student reading and two student activities: Stagecoach and Conestoga Wagon Coloring Sheet and Traveler’s Tools. One of the student readings is a journal of an emigrant family.