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Cowpens National Battlefield

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

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Cowpens National Battlefield

Material Culture: the Fife and Drum
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

How does music from the Battle of Cowpens help us understand this historical event?

Cowpens National Battlefield

Material Culture: The Powder Horn
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

To introduce to students material culture related to the Battle of Cowpens.

Fort Pulaski National Monument

Fort Pulaski Pre-Visit Materials
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

These materials provide pre-visit information for teachers and students who are planning a field trip to Fort Pulaski. There is a fact sheet and timeline for teachers and worksheet for students.

Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical Park

Creating Sculptures from Natural Materials
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students will address real world issues through considering their impact on the environment, creating public site-specific art for a national historical park, integrating interdisciplinary understandings, and collaborating with a diverse group.

What is that Gray Hair-like Material in the Trees?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will identify uses of Spanish moss from the time of the Timucua Indians to the present.

Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park

Brown Curriculum Unit
  • Type: Traveling Trunk
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The Brown Foundation and the National Park Service worked closely to produce this curriculum to provide teachers the resources needed to teach concepts of fairness and social democracy.The Brown curriculum kit includes a Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site handbook; a DVD with two short videos titled Reading, Writing and Resistance and Dialog; and a CD-ROM entitled Brown v. Board of Education: Struggle for Equality with a teacher's guide.

George Washington Carver National Monument

George Washington Carver - An Original Conservationist: Alternative Uses for Everyday Materials
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This topic is a focus on alternative uses for source materials and products that can be made with alternative materials. Students will make peanut milk in an effort to understand how foods can be used in different ways to increase nutrition to the consumer. Students will create a pros/cons poster researching products (such as fuel) and comparing traditional source materials (crude oil) with alternative materials (corn or soy-based ethanol).

Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site

Teaching With Historic Places Curriculum
  • Type: Teacher Reference Materials
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This lesson is based on the Historic Resources Study for Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, as well as other materials on Bethune and the National Council of Negro Women.

Biodiversity Curriculum: Flipping for Adaptations
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will show what they have learned by drawing and writing about their “flipped” animal to encourage creativity and thoughtful response in how these adaptations help their animals survive in their unique environments. As an extension, students can do further research on specific animals and their adaptations by making “What Am I?” cards to play in class.

Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park

Web Quest Curriculum Unit
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

A cooperative activity where students identify each of the five cases included in the Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision, explore how the NAACP was involved, and how explore the significance of the "separate but equal" clause.

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

Tallgrass Prairie: A Multidisciplinary Curriculum
  • Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Prepare students for a visit to the 81-acre tallgrass prairie at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site. Activities strenghten skills in observation, analysis, and interpretation in the field and in the classroom. Activities are written with middle school students in mind, but may be appropriate for other ages.

Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park

Kaloko Loko I'a (Fishpond) Curriculum
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Kaloko-Honokōhau is a wahi kūpuna (ancestral place) that is deeply loved and cherished by the kamaʻāina (natives) of Kona. Remembered today for the fishing village that existed along the coast, these reminders of the ancestors remain. Remnants of the fishing village includes kahua (ancient house site platforms), heiau (religious sites), loko iʻa (fishponds), holua (toboggan slide), kiʻi pōhaku (petroglyphs), papamū (kokane game boards), ahu (altar), and ala hele(trails).

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

Students are given the opportunity to research a topic of their choice related to threats that exist to the biodiversity of our planet.

Homesteaders, Immigrants & American Indians Curriculum Unit
  • Type: Other Education Materials
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Homesteaders, Immigrants & American Indians Curriculum Unit.

Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument

Southern Paiute Cultural History Curriculum Guide
  • Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The purpose of the Southern Paiute Cultural History supplemental curriculum lessons is to provide opportunities for students to learn about the region’s cultural history. Studying about past cultures and traditions provide a context for deeper understanding that links today’s Southern Paiute people with their rich cultural legacy. Archeology helps to provide a better understanding of these connections.

Homestead National Historical Park

The Homestead Act of 1862 (K-2)
  • Type: Traveling Trunk
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

The trunk includes curriculum materials, books, and photos that can be integrated into history, social studies, art, reading, and language arts curriculum. Additionally, the curriculum materials include student station sheets, so students can rotate stations without the teacher having to repeat instructions.

The Homestead Act of 1862 (9-12)
  • Type: Traveling Trunk
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

The trunk includes curriculum materials, books, documents and a DVD that can be integrated into history, social studies, reading, and language arts curriculum. Additionally, the curriculum materials include student station sheets, so students can rotate stations without the teacher having to repeat instructions.

Homestead National Historical Park

Prairie Life Traveling Trunk
  • Type: Traveling Trunk
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The trunk includes curriculum materials, books, artifacts and photos that can be integrated into history, social studies, art, reading, and language arts curriculum. Additionally, the curriculum materials include student station sheets, so students can rotate stations without the teacher having to repeat instructions.

Homestead National Historical Park

The Homestead Act of 1862 (TT)
  • Type: Traveling Trunk
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The trunk includes curriculum materials, books, documents, case files and a DVD that can be integrated into history, social studies, reading, and language arts curriculum. Additionally, the curriculum materials include student station sheets, so students can rotate stations without the teacher having to repeat instructions.