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Back Stairs at Brucemore: Life as Servants in Early 20th-Century America

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

Understand the "servant" experience in early 20th-century America, as well as the pros and cons for women working in factories versus domestic service.

Niobrara National Scenic River

Early Birding

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

This lesson is designed to introduce Middle School level students to basic bird identification to some of the common, and a few rare but easily identified,birds and waterfowl found along and around the Niobrara National Scenic River.

First State National Historical Park

Growing up in the 18th Century

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

Discover what it was like to be a child in the 18th century. This field trip takes place around The Dover Green.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Housing: Early Homes

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

Students will gain deeper understanding about earth lodge construction by visualizing life in a Hidatsa village through guided imagery and by viewing the building an earth lodge video. They will have an opportunity to design and build their own replica earth lodge.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Early American Activities

• Type: Science Labs
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

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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.

Fort Scott National Historic Site

Chaos in Early Kansas Elections

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

People of Kansas Territory could decide by popular vote whether or not to have slavery or not when they entered the Union. Both sides sent settlers to Kansas to sway the outcome of this decision. Chaos ensued.

Building America's Industrial Revolution: The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts (Teaching with Historic Places)

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

Learn about the Boott Cotton Mills complex in Massachusetts, which contains mills built from the mid-1830s to the early 20th century.

Knife River: Early Village Life on the Plains

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

Have students describe the life of the Hidatsa and Mandan groups in the early 19th century and explain how the villagers shaped their environment and adapted to it; and discover American Indian groups who once lived in their region and compare their cultures to the Hidatsa and Mandan peoples.

Petroglyph National Monument

How the Early Railroads Changed New Mexico

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

This is a lesson that can be used to teach geography, history and economics using pictures, maps and scale models.

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park

Lincoln’s Early Years: Post Visit PowerPoint

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

What was life like during Abraham Lincoln’s early life? Recall what you learned, and design a presentation about your trip. Meets Kentucky 3rd-5th grade Social Studies/Writing standards. This lesson was created by Kentucky teachers as a part of the History and Science Explore Project.

George Washington Carver National Monument

George Washington Carver - An Original Conservationist: Welcome to the 21st Century

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

This activity will serve as the culmination to an ecological unit, especially those on current environmental problems. Students will take the role of George Washington Carver from 100 years ago. They will evaluate current ecological problems as if they were George Washington Carver. Their goal is to understand how the world has changed in the last century but also to recognize how solutions for today’s problems may have been around for decades and just need to be implemented.

Ybor City: Cigar Capital of the World

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

This lesson provides a case study of an immigrant community of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and offers a contrast to the typical textbook coverage that emphasizes immigration from eastern and southern Europe to the big cities of the north.

An American Success Story: The Pope House of Raleigh, NC

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

Meet Dr. Manassa T. Pope, an African-American doctor and entrepreneur in the early 20th century, and learn about his efforts to gain civil rights well before the modern Civil Rights Movement.

Locke and Walnut Grove: Havens for Early Asian Immigrants in California

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

How did Chinese and Japanese immigrants develop California's industry and culture?

Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail

The Biggest and Best Flag that Ever Flew

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Objectives: Students will be able to… describe the contributions of Mary Pickersgill to Maryland history. describe the goods and services available in early 19th Century Baltimore. analyze the interdependence of early 19th Century Baltimore.

Bryce Canyon National Park

Bryce Canyon National Park: Hoodoos Cast Their Spell

• 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 westward expansion (especially the Mormon settlement of Utah) and the conservation movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It could also be used in a geology course.

Hot Springs National Park

Bathtub Time Machine

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

“Bathtub Time Machine” is a virtual program that shares the history of Hot Springs in the 19th and early 20th centuries through images and stories. Students will be able to understand the story of Hot Springs National Park and fit it into the larger picture of the National Park Service.

Digging into the Colonial Past: Archeology and the 16th-Century Spanish Settlements at Charlesfort-Santa Elena

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

Both France and Spain raced to settle and control the southern coast of North America. On a small island off the coast of present-day South Carolina lie the ruins of Charlesfort, the French outpost for a year, which later became Santa Elena, a Spanish colonial town from 1566 to 1587. The site has been abandoned now for more than 400 years.

Life on an Island: Early Settlers off the Rock-Bound Coast of Maine

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

The lesson could be used in units on the settlement of northern New England or on life in the early national period. Students will strengthen their skills of observation, research, and analysis of a variety of sources.