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Haleakalā National Park

He Aha Lā He Kūkulu?

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

Kekahi hale Hawaiʻi ma kahi o Ka Pāka Aupuni Ma Ka Moku O Kīpahulu

Rock Creek Park

Herring Highway

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Visit Rock Creek Park to explore a new fish passage for River Herring.

Fort Larned National Historic Site

A Long Way to Santa Fe

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

What's it like to travel the Santa Fe Trail on a wagon train? Robert Earl would say it's long periods of boredom with a few moments of excitement. Follow his story to find out about his adventures traveling with his father on the Santa Fe Trail.

Santa Fe National Historic Trail

Trading on the Santa Fe Trail

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

Overview: Kansas Historical Society offers a highly interactive exploration of life and culture on the trail through the use of a traveling resource trunk. The trunk provides educators with a variety of primary source documents, historical artifacts and photographs. The lessons focus on Kansas and United States history; Most lessons require the physical use of the trunk items.

Traveling the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails

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

This lesson is designed to review the purpose of the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails. The students will also expand their knowledge of each trail and put a plan together for a trip on each trail. This plan will include a packing list for their wagons. The students will use primary sources to help form their plans and packing list.

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

Samuel Slater: American Hero or English Traitor

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

Samuel Slater is regarded as a traitor in his hometown of Belper, England. In the United States, Slater has been hailed as a hero (to some) and as the “father of American industry.” This lesson plan serves as an accompaniment to episode one of the documentary series called Slatersville: America’s First Mill Village.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Cowpens Heroes: Howard, Pickens & Washington: A Study in Contrast

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

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Little Kinnakeet Lifesaving Station: Home to Unsung Heroes

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

Learn about the United States Lifesaving Service daring rescues to save imperiled lives from the "Graveyard of the Atlantic.

Grand Canyon National Park

Japanese Americans at Grand Canyon - Bellboys and WWII Heroes

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

From bellboys at El Tovar Hotel to highly decorated war heroes in 442nd Regimental Combat Team, learn about stories like George Murakami's that provide a window into the Japanese American experience at Grand Canyon.

Cape Hatteras National Seashore

Little Kinnakeet Life-Saving Station: Home to Unsung Heroes

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

Why did the Federal Government take an active role in protecting mariners by creating the U.S. Life-Saving Service?

Fort Larned National Historic Site

No Pot of Gold

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

Journey downt he Santa Fe Trail with seven-year-old Marion Sloan as she, her mother and her brother head to California.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site

"The Measure of a Man's Success in Life is Not the Money He's Made. It's the Kind of Family He Has Raised.": Separating the Myth from Reality in the Life and Times of Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr.

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

This lesson plan allows high school students to identify who Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. was and his role in United States history. Students will examine Kennedy family photographs, letters from Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. to his family, and quotes from Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., to form their understanding of his influence. Students will evaluate the ways in which historians form complex understandings of controversial historical figures.

Fort Larned National Historic Site

Old Bill Williams

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

Follow the story of Bill Williams, expert rifle shot and friend to Indians as he surveys the Santa Fe Trail for the US Government.

Chaco Culture National Historical Park

Scouts and Shovels: “Crashing the Gates” with Bertha Dutton

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

Bertha Dutton was one of the first female archeologists who worked with the National Park Service. This lesson plan emphasizes her original methodologies and why her work was so important to both women’s history and cultural resource preservation. Este plan de clase con actividades incluido también está disponible en español.

Fort Larned National Historic Site

Letters From Sarah

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Disappointed that she can't go on a trip with her father down the Santa Fe Trail, Sarah "joins" the journey through letters she trades with him along the way.

Natchez Trace Parkway

Read with a Ranger Charlotte Spies for Justice

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Are you finding it difficult to teach or discuss the Civil War and slavery with early elementary students? This program discusses bravery and making difficult choices. A brief discussion of the battlefields, as well as general survival along the Natchez Trace is incorporated.

Correspondents, Soldiers and Spies: Women in the U.S.-Mexican War

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

In wartime, women traditionally served either on the home front or as nurses and laundresses. During the U.S.-Mexican War, most women played these traditional roles while others aided the military in non-traditional ways. Read primary documents about female soldiers, war correspondents, and spies.

Fort Larned National Historic Site

El Hombre

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

Juan travels with his father from Santa Fe to Hays, Kansas, helping with the trade caravan along the way.

Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site

First Lady of the World: Eleanor Roosevelt at Val-Kill

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

Examine how Roosevelt's use of her at home reflected her interest in human rights and her leadership in creating the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site

Political Parenthood: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Remembers

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

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy possessed an acumen for people and the world which she utilized throughout her life. She fostered this passion devotedly in her children, including future president John F. Kennedy. In this lesson, students read her recollections of parenthood, hear her tour of the family home, and compare and contrast her to her husband, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. Students will learn how she shaped her son’s image and examine how historians form multidimensional views of historical figures.