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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.

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.

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

Mountain Building

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

Plate tectonics allows for the development of mountains and valleys. Students will use a towel and index card "blocks" to show how mountains and valleys form using compressional and extensional forces.

Glacier National Park

Build A Tree

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

Students will reinforce what they learned about the different parts of a tree and the role each part plays in the growth of a tree, using role-playing theater.

Saratoga National Historical Park

Building an Army

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

This Math/Social Studies worksheet can be used to help students learn about the three basic organizational levels of an army during the American Revolution. Students will calculate the number of soldiers one may have seen in a Revolutionary War army, and develop an appreciation for the vast numbers of soldiers needed to help secure American independence.

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

Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park

Building a Mississippian House

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

wattle and daub house (Mississippian house)

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park

Building a Cabin: Math

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

What would it take to build a cabin like the one Abraham Lincoln lived in? Students will learn what it takes to build a frontier cabin and explore area and perimeter of their cabin. Meets Kentucky 3rd-5th grade math standards. This lesson was created by Kentucky teachers as a part of the History and Science Explore Project.

Mount Rainier National Park

Lava Building Blocks

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

Students investigate the influence of magma viscosity on the shape of a volcanic cone. Then, they explore nature and motions of lava flows and learn about the importance of lava flows as the building blocks of Mount Rainier. Students will: How do lava flows influence volcano structure and type, specifically at Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, and Kilauea?

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.

Fort Caroline National Memorial

Build Your Own Fort

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

In this post-field trip activity, students will draw their own fort and identify its parts using historic forts such as Fort Caroline, the Castillo de San Marcos, and Fort Matanzas as examples. This activity may allow students to make connections between other sites they have visited and make comparisons between the building materials used and geographic location.

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park

The Building of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

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

Assess the importance of America's early canal system and its economic and social effects

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.