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Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Brigadier General Charles Young: The Responsible Leader!
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Charles Young was born enslaved and became the first African American to attain the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army. Young called several places home during three distinct stages of his life: when he was a youth, a junior officer, and a seasoned veteran. Discover what changed in his life during these five eras of Charles Young’s life from where he called home and what he was responsible for.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Brigadier General Charles Young: The Responsible Leader!
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Charles Young was born enslaved and became the first African American to attain the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army. Young called several places home during three distinct stages of his life: when he was a youth, a junior officer, and a seasoned veteran. Discover what changed in his life during these five eras of Charles Young’s life from where he called home and what he was responsible for.
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Hulihia Kīlauea – a Complete Change part 3, post-visit classroom activities and assessment
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
These final classroom activities allow students to contemplate the risks involved in living in areas subject to natural disasters. They can investigate their local emergency response plans, learn from family or friends about natural disaster experiences, and synthesize what they have learned.
Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical Park
Climate Change in Vermont: Measuring Predicted Impacts
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
In the "Emerging Science" episode (VT Public Television) “Climate Change: A Northeast Primer,” students are introduced to present-day and potential future impacts of climate change on Vermont. Through these activities, students plan ways to measure climate change, explore climate change data, and use phenology to detect a species’ response to climate change.
Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument
Fossil Teeth: Changing Climates and Evolutionary Responses Preserved in the Fossil Record (Lesson Plan by Geoscientist-in-the-Park Gina Roberti)
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will look at changes in tooth size and shape (morphology) in the fossil record of herbivorous mammals in North America using data from a recent paleontological study. Students will infer factors which caused the observed evolutionary adaptions and link biological adaptation with global climate change and localized habitat change.
Kenai Fjords National Park
The Scientific Method
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will conduct a basic soil science experiment and re-familiarize themselves with the scientific method.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will learn about the evolution of a volcanic island from origin to erosion. They will understand that Hawaiian volcanoes have gradually progressed through different stages as they are formed, emerge, and erode back into the sea from which they came.
William Howard Taft National Historic Site
The Measure of a Man or a Woman
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson will help students to re-live the early years of William Howard Taft and his family as well as, explore the Taft family's values practiced in their household.
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
What Would YOU Do?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Abraham Lincoln learned many lessons on responsibility while growing up in Indiana. This lesson allows the teacher and students to share and talk about responsible actions.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Abraham Lincoln learned many lessons on responsibility while growing up in Indiana. This lesson allows the teacher and students to share and talk about responsible actions.
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
What Would You Do? Grades 1-2
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Abraham Lincoln learned many lessons on responsibility while growing up in Indiana. This lesson allows the teacher and students to share and talk about responsible actions.
Eisenhower National Historic Site
Molding of a Leader: Lesson 4
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The students will identify evidence of responsible behavior in the life of the young Dwight D. Eisenhower and compare the evidence to their own lives by recording and discussing their responses to the satisfaction of the classroom teacher.
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.
Hot Springs National Park
How the Water Gets Hot
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will explore rock outcroppings, look for evidence of the water recharge area, and examine the emerging hot springs to learn about the stories of rocks and water millions of years in the making. This program introduces students to this portion of the ancient Ouachita Mountain Range, and the remarkable waters that bubble up after a 4,400-year-old journey. Designed for 4th and 5th grade geology lessons.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The New Deal reform, recovery, and relief programs changed the relationship between American’s and their government in revolutionary ways. The Resettlement Administration (RA), Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), and the Farm Security Administration (FSA) were programs to get displaced families off relief. More than eighty years after the Matanuska Colony was established much of it remains to tell the story of the New Deal resettlement program in Alaska.
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park
The Real Harriet Tubman: Separating Myth from Fact Post-Visit Activity
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Born into slavery in early 1822 in Dorchester County, Maryland. Tubman gained international acclaim during her lifetime as an Underground Railroad agent, abolitionist, Civil War spy and nurse, suffragist, and humanitarian. Disabled by a near fatal head injury while enslaved, Tubman rose above horrific childhood adversity to emerge with a will of steel. Tubman transcended victimization to achieve personal and physical freedom from her oppressors.
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
Economy and Trade: Pre 1845
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In Economy and Trade: Pre 1845, students will learn about trade relations between tribes prior to European contact and how their experience prepared them for success in dealing with explorers and traders after European contact by re-enacting trading as it was practiced at Knife River Villages.
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
Leave No Trace
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This program introduces students to the Leave No Trace principles, which are easy to understand guidelines on how to responsibly play in the outdoors.
Mammoth Cave National Park
Shapes Of The Season
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This lesson plan is from "Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3", which comprises ten lessons. This is lesson 4 of that set. Students collect and classify leaves. This art project then re-creates their favorite leaf shape in the colors of fall - ready to hang in the window as a sun-catcher.
Kings Mountain National Military Park
African Americans in the American Revolution
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
*What were duties and responsibilities of African-American soldiers in the American Revolution? *How did African Americans make significant contributions during the American Revolution?