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Gold Fever! Seattle Outfits the Klondike Gold Rush

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

The lesson will help students understand how Seattle exemplified the prosperity of the Klondike Gold Rush. It can be used in units on western expansion, late 19th-century commerce, and urban history.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 1 Overview of the National Road

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

This unit gives an overview of the National Road, teaching the students where it was located and its importance to transportation and commerce. It includes background information for the teacher, a student reading and two student activities; Map of the National Road and the National Road in Pennsylvania.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Cultural Contact Lesson Plan

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

This lesson examines the origin of trade goods during the fur trade era and how commerce in early Colorado history served to increase settlement and westward expansion. It demonstrates how international markets have been and continue to be essential to the success of a nation’s economy.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Trade Goods

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

Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail alongside traders and merchants gave him a firsthand perspective of how trade was conducted during the 1840s in the southern Great Plains. This lesson gives students a chance to practice trading goods and consider historical forms of commerce.

Navesink Lighthouse and Robbins Reef Lighthouse: Lighting the Way Through New York Bay

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

The lesson could be used in U.S. history, social studies, and geography courses in units on nineteenth century and early twentieth century commerce or transportation, and to help students understand the role that maritime industries played in American history. The lesson could also be used to enhance studies related to the industrial revolution and women’s history.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Fauna: Draft Animals, Buffalo, and Rattlesnakes

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

If you had to travel over 2 months to reach your destination, which animal would you depend on to get you there? In this lesson and activity, students will predict and experience the three common modes of transportation along the Santa Fe Trail as a relay. They will consider the role of animals in commerce and Westward expansion during the fur trade era.

Niobrara National Scenic River

Cows in the Campground - Pre-Visit Writing Activity

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

Students will read about the community of the Niobrara Valley prior to their field trip to develop an understanding of the significance of development and its co-existence with preservation of a natural resource. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the interrelationships contained in the river system by writing a descriptive essay based on an essay prompt of their choice.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Intercultural Kinship

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

Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail put him in contact with a variety of southwestern cultures. This lesson offers a chance to reflect on how family unions across cultures both helped and hindered successful operation of the Bent, St. Vrain, & Co. during the 1840s.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Economy and Trade: Pre 1845

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

In Economy and Trade: Pre 1845, students will learn about trade relations between tribes prior to European contact and how their experience prepared them for success in dealing with explorers and traders after European contact by re-enacting trading as it was practiced at Knife River Villages.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 5 Workers Along the National Road

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

This unit covers workers along the National Road, teaching the students what types of work people preformed to help the travelers. It includes background information for the teacher, a student reading and two student activities: Traffic on the National Road and Jobs Along the National Road.

Friendship Hill National Historic Site

Albert Gallatin: A Most Astonishing Man - Gallatin and New Geneva - Lesson 5

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

Students will use the student reading to learn about Gallatin’s business ventures. The activity work sheet has them identify reasons the businesses did not succeed. Then the students will work in groups to decide if Gallatin was a good businessman.

Friendship Hill National Historic Site

Albert Gallatin: A Most Astonishing Man - Gallatin as Secretary of the Treasury - Lesson 6

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

Gallatin moved into the political spotlight when he became Secretary of the Treasury. Students will read about this part of Gallatin’s career. Then using an activity sheet the students will have to make some tough choices to develop the United States budget.

Fort Stanwix National Monument

Through the Oneida Carrying Place: Travel, Trade, and Conflict

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

How did European/Native contact on the New York frontier influence the development of early America? When this virtual tour is complete, students will have a brief overview of European/Native relations in early American history. Including how trade, war, and politics on the New York frontier affected both sides.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Juan's Draft Pick Lesson Plan

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

Whether by pulling a wagon, cart, or saddle bag, animals powered the goods to be traded and transferred to their destination. The fur trade era simply could not have taken place without the aid of horses, mules, and oxen. The lesson examines the pros and cons of using these animals as transportation based on their characteristics and biological needs.