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Buffalo National River
Buffalo Caves and Karst
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson was designed to help students learn about karst landscapes and how erosion can form various land features (ex. caves).
Andersonville National Historic Site
Victory from Within: The American Prisoner of War Curriculum
- Type: Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Educating young people about the sacrifices made by American prisoners of war (POWs) is a shared goal of the Friends of Andersonville, the American Ex-Prisoners of War, the Korean War Ex-POW Association, Nam-POW, and the National Parks Service. The Curriculum is designed to accompany the traveling exhibit, but it can also be utilized with a visit to the National Prisoner of War Museum at Andersonville National Historic Site or as a standalone curriculum.
Cowpens National Battlefield
The Battle of Cowpens: The Spatial Landscape
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
To gain skills in math and learn of the Battle of Cowpens by completing mathematical exercises.
Glacier National Park
What Is Wild?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students participate in a guided imagery exercise and take a trip to an imaginary “wild” place.
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
Consider the Source: The Words We Mean: An Exercise and Study on Euphemisms, Language, and Dialogue about Chattel Slavery in Western North Carolina and the United States (Grades 6-8) Lesson 1 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This is the 1st of 3 lessons designed to contribute to middle school student's working knowledge of Black history in Western North Carolina. This lesson introduces students to the language of Black history and its relevance to their own dialogues and historical skills. With multiple interactive opportunities, and historical and artistic sources, students will develop language arts and critical thinking skills.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) paratroopers jump from a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft over Bangladesh during exercise Cope South 14 Nov. 10, 2013. Cope South is an annual bilateral aerial exercise designed to increase the combat readiness and interoperability of the U.S. Air Force and the BAF. Public domain photograph from defenseimagery.mil.
Cane River Creole National Historical Park
Shapes in the Landscape
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students will review geometric and abstract shapes, and utilize them in creating a piece of artwork. From this exercise, students will be able to explore the idea of the natural world around them being comprised of shapes.
Badlands National Park
Bison by the Numbers
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The American bison was an important species to Native Americans on the Great Plains of North America. However, as settlers moved west during the nineteen century, the population numbers dramatically dropped from overhunting. In this exercise, students will learn graphing skills while learning about this species that almost went extinct.
Acadia National Park
Hummingbird Migration K-2
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This lesson is primarily an information – and exercise lesson. Students will read the Going Home book outside with the teacher, to get background on migrating animals. The students will then play a “Simon Says” – type game to imitate the movements of these migrating animals. There is potential for extension throughout the school year for this activity, by completing the activities at the end of this lesson.
Saratoga National Historical Park
The Crucial Hour: Mapping Activity
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This activity is intended to be a simple exercise in analyzing and understanding how geography influenced decision making by both American and British armies in the Battles of Saratoga. It was originally planned for class use while visiting the battlefield, but it could also be used pre-visit in conjunction with the Saratoga National Historical Park virtual tour, or as a stand-alone activity.
Andersonville National Historic Site
The American Civil War: A Humanitarian Perspective
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learning about humanitarian law helps students connect lessons of the past with the issues of the present. Students will explore historical events through the lives of those who experienced the American Civil War and will participate in hands-on exercises that make for challenging and exciting class projects and discussions. The lessons will also help students develop critical thinking skills and character.
Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
Hoover-Ball
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Hooverball is a strenuous team sport and a great addition to a physical education curriculum or as an extra-curricular club activity.
Saratoga National Historical Park
Why Here?
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This activity is designed to be reviewed by the teacher, photocopied, and distributed to students. It is intended to be a simple exercise in analyzing and understanding how geography influenced American and British decision making in the Battles of Saratoga. The activity was originally planned for class use while visiting the battlefield, but it could also be used pre-visit in conjunction with Saratoga National Historical Park's virtual tour, or as a stand-alone activity.
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
Consider the Source: Migration to the Mountains: From the Lowcountry of Charleston, South Carolina to the highlands of Flat Rock, North Carolina. (Grades 6-8) Lesson 2 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This is the second of three lessons intended to exercise critical thinking, historical dialogue, and empathic skills. This lesson enables middle school students to develop an understanding of how geography, disease, migration, and racism influence societal changes in Western North Carolina. Students will use secondary and primary sources to understand causes and effects in antebellum western North Carolina society over time.
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
Consider the Source: The Stories We Tell and The History We Know (Grade 6 -8) Lesson 3 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This is the 3rd of 3 lessons designed to contribute to middle school student's working knowledge of Black history in Western North Carolina (W.N.C.) and to give them the skills to identify common myths of the region as well. This lesson introduces critical thinking concepts such as anachronisms and explores myths and deferred histories from W.N.C. This lesson is intended to exercise historical thinking skills and encourage the dialogue studied in previous lessons.
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
Why People Move: Introduction to Using Primary Sources (Grades 3-5) Lesson 3 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson helps upper elementary students to identify primary and secondary sources and explain how they are used to better understand historical events. It introduces Carl Sandburg and helps students to understand the relevance of the Carl Sandburg Home NHS to the history of the area. Students will learn to differentiate between primary and secondary sources throughout the lesson's activities. This is the 3rd of three lessons intended to build upon on another's content and exercises.
John Muir National Historic Site
John Muir: Observation and Descriptive Writing
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
During the field trip to John Muir National Historic Site, students were encouraged to reflect on the home and work life of John Muir. They also learned about Muir’s battle to preserve wild places through writing articles and books about nature. His work influenced people all over the world and led to the creation of five National Parks. This exercise will give students a prompt for observation, analytical thinking, and descriptive writing.
Glacier National Park
Bear Noses
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Just like a bear, students will use their sense of smell to locate an object in the room.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
What is the Archaeological Resources Protection Act? How do you read a law? Using this lesson plan, students will learn about ARPA and how to read a federal law.
President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site
Aligned Legacies
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will analyze 10 or more images of American Presidents and organize them in chronological order along a timeline from left to right.