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Gateway Arch National Park

Celebrating Community

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

In this program, scouts will explore the Museum at the Gateway Arch and its history galleries to discover how communities celebrate and honor special people and events in the past and today.

Wright Brothers National Memorial

The Wright Community

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

How does your community help you succeed? Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first flights of human history with the support of their family and friends. In this virtual-friendly, in-classroom lesson plan, students will learn about the first flights and the people who helped make them possible by researching an assigned friend of the Wrights and performing an interview about the first flight as the person they researched. Subject(s): Social Studies and English Language Arts. Grade(s): 3rd-5th.

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

Culture and Community

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

In this lesson, students will look at reasons why people immigrate and settle in new places and how that is oftentimes connected to the need for jobs. Students will choose an ethnic community whose members either came to work in and around Rhode Island mills (or a modern-day culture in their town) and create a poster honoring that community's impact using Adobe Spark (if looking for a digital option) or on a piece of paper (if looking for a hands-on option).

Glacier National Park

⁠Forest Communities

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

Students collect conifer tree needles and cones (not in the national park but from locations where it is permissible) and make displays from them. They identify trees and take note of where their samples were collected.

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve

Mystery in a Cajun Community

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

Come visit the Prairie Acadian Cultural Center and solve the mystery of Farmer McDonald's knocked over crawfish traps. Students will become investigators and learn about crawfishing and Cajun culture while improving literacy skills.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

Hope Inspired Community

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

Read aloud "So You Want To Be President", discuss as a group then create a timeline

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

Peace Picnics and Community in Hopedale

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

In 1842, a group of like-minded individuals created a commune called Hopedale. Under the leadership of minister Adin Ballou, people came to Hopedale to live out their values, which included Christian non-resistance and abolition. In this lesson, students will read primary source accounts about anti-slavery meetings and celebrations independence in Hopedale, MA and consider how people use speeches and print to make persuasive arguments.

Grand Canyon National Park

“Little Mexico” and Creating Community

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

Between 1919-1929 a community called "Little Mexico" formed on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon when contractors refused to provide housing and food for laborers. Explore with students how the story of "Little Mexico" demonstrates resilience and resourcefulness.

The Freeman School: Building Prairie Communities

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

One community, one room. Discover the red-brick schoolhouse where a frontier town's children learned and its families gathered.

Fort Stanwix National Monument

The Fort Community On-Site Education Program

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

How was this wilderness fort like our communities of today? Visit with and become community helpers of the Revolution!

Fort Stanwix National Monument

The Fort Community On-Site Education Program

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

How was this wilderness fort like our communities of today? Visit with and become community helpers of the American Revolution

Arthurdale: A New Deal Community Experiment

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

Welcome to historic Arthurdale, West Virginia, a New Deal village built from the ground-up for coal miners and their families during the Great Depression.

Frederica: An 18th-Century Planned Community

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

Discover why this British settlement was built and how it functioned as Great Britain and Spain each struggled to control land from Charleston to St. Augustine.

Alaska Public Lands

Fairbanks History Walk: What makes a community?

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

In this field trip, participants will walk along the Chena River from the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitor Center to Clay Street Cemetary. Participants will learn about the history of Fairbanks and discuss what and who makes a community.

Lowell National Historical Park

Immigration, Culture, and Community Virtual Field Trip

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

Discover the stories of people who came from all over the world to Lowell and who now make up the city’s diverse community. By investigating primary sources, oral histories, and objects, students learn about the immigrant groups who arrived in the U.S. in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, including why they came, how they met the challenges of settling in a different environment, and how they contributed to their new community.

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

The Sound of Buffalo Soldiers! A Musical Bridge to Communities

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Adult Education

How has music influenced your connection to a community? Throughout the history of the United States military, music has been part of the sound experience of soldiers. For the Buffalo Soldiers, music also served as a tool to build a connection to the communities they served.

Everglades National Park

"Create a Community" Environment: 4-6th Grade

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

Communities are made of different plants and animals that all play an important role.

Researching Change Over Time in Local Communities

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

By studying change over time in their local community, students will realize that where they live has its own unique history, and different factors contributed to its current state. Students will also understand how to collect and interpret this information and comprehend the value of living people as key information holders in historical research.

Timpanogos Cave National Monument

Communities Care in National Parks! Grades 2 and 3

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Explore communities through National Parks! Students will learn the types of communities that use National Parks and compare them to their own. We will also discuss the role of community members and how we work to solve problems in our National Parks.

Lake Mead National Recreation Area

4th Grade Virtual Field Trip - Growing Communities

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

A virtual trip to the Song Dog Native Plant Nursery introduces students to plants of Lake Mead National Recreation Area along with how their internal and external structures support their survival in the Mojave Desert.