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Frederick Douglass National Historic Site

Debating Abolition

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Should you kill to end slavery? This program works with students to understand the range of options open to abolitionists, from pacifist William Lloyd Garrison to the violence of John Brown.

Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Debating the Atomic Bomb

• Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Lesson Plan: Students research, take sides, and debate the use of the atomic bombs.

Statue Of Liberty National Monument

Debating Liberty- Post Statue of Liberty Lesson Plan

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

Students will analyze historic quotes to determine whether the speakers were for or against the Statue of Liberty’s arrival. Students will then roleplay as those speakers to debate over whether or not to accept the statue.

Colorado National Monument

Ciclo de Rocas

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

At the completion of this lesson, students will be able to identify one or two ways that rocks can be broken down and/or combined and students will be able to describe the rock cycle of the sandstone.

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha (Should the Dams on the Elwha be Removed? A Classroom Debate)

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Dams have been useful to human populations in providing water and energy for development of wilderness areas. Should we remove dams that have outlived their use in order to enhance the sustainability of natural and human communities?

Acadia National Park

Sieur de Monts Stewards

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

Students explore various trails and the new Nature Center exhibit to delve into the topic of human change in the environment. This program takes place along easy to moderate hiking paths with some uneven terrain.

Saint Croix Island International Historic Site

Sieur de Mad-Lib

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

Use our words and your own silly words to fill in the blanks in Pierra Dugua's story of how and why he came to North America.

Acadia National Park

Sieur de Monts Scavenger Hunt

• Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Sieur de Monts has limited accessibility in the winter but can offer great flat locations to explore. Use this scavenger hunt to guide your experience. Fill out at least 3 activities to print the scavenger hunt certificate.

Fort Hancock: A Bastion of America's Eastern Seaboard

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

Examine how changing military technology and U.S. budget debates influenced the development of Fort Hancock and the U.S. coastal defense system.

Gateway Arch National Park

Finding Common Ground

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

Gather in the Gateway Arch visitor center to learn and practice the art of debate, compromise, and mediation as we strive to find a common ground. Call 314-655-1635 for more information.

First Battle of Manassas: An End to Innocence

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

Study personal accounts of soldiers who fought in the first battle of the Civil War, and debate whether the U.S. should maintain historic sites where few substantial remains exist.

Grand Canyon National Park

Current Events – Uranium Mining

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

How do we work together to find sustainable solutions to everyday problems? Uranium mining near the Grand Canyon is a controversial subject. This lesson takes shape in the form of a townhall style debate.

Wright or Wrong

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

Were Wilbur and Orville Wright really the first people to fly? In this in-class lesson plan, students will perform research and debate two points of view in order to answer that question. Subject: English Language Arts. Grades: 6th-8th.

Gateway Arch National Park

Law Merit Badge

• Type: Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Does protecting the law involve bravery? Does telling the truth equal courage? Investigate the judicial system and its important role in our society. Scouts re-enact a historic trial and debate contemporary issues. An attorney and a National Park Service Law Enforcement Ranger will discuss their roles and responsibilities in society.

The History of Voting Rights in the United States

• Type: Student Activities ... Online Galleries ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

In this four-part video series, Park Ranger Nick Sacco examines the history of voting rights in the United States. The first three videos focus on changes, progressions, and setbacks in voting rights during the 19th Century, while the fourth video explores debates over voting rights and fair elections in the present.

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

John Brown’s Raid: Readers' Theatre

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

In this Readers' Theatre, students will learn why John Brown chose Harpers Ferry as the objective for his October 1859 raid, an event that was to be the beginning of the end of slavery in the U.S. They will also discover what happened during and after the raid, and have the opportunity to debate the question: Would you have joined John Brown’s raiders?

Roger Williams National Memorial

Roger Williams and the Separation of Church and State

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

Roger Williams believed in the idea that religion was a matter of individual conscience, not to be regulated or supported by a government. In this lesson students examine both sides of the issue of a proposed RI bill that would provide tax supported school vouchers for private schools. The students will research the issue using primary and secondary sources and then participate in a debate to answer the question: Do school vouchers violate the principle of the separation of church and state?

Olympic National Park

Sediment Effects of Elwha Dams

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Through this activity, students will learn about the effects that building the Elwha River dams had on the natural sediment transport and deposition mechanisms in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park

I Think I Know About Slavery... Pre-Visit Activity

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

During the decades preceding the Civil War, when the United States struggled to define itself, no issue more divided and plagued its people than slavery. Even among those who had doubts about its morality, slavery was debated as part of a complex set of interlocking philosophical, social, economic, and political concerns too difficult to resolve and too intertwined with the fate of the nation to consider abolishing.

Kenai Fjords National Park

Succession and Nutrient Cycling in a Temperate Rainforest Ecosystem

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

Students will examine succession in two forest ecosystems: a recently de-glaciated area and an established temperate rainforest. (Note: This lesson can be adapted to succession in any forest ecosystem.)