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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.
- 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.
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
National Park Legacy - Battle the Bully Plants and Conserve Water! Grades 5 - 6
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
SMMNRA Nature Neighbor Project suggests native plant options for landscapes near natural areas. Native plants can generally resist weather challenges, require no fertilizer or pesticide and attract wildlife. Most importantly, plants native to Southern California are adapted to drought conditions and water is California’s most prized natural resource.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This lesson will look at the impact of artificially created fertilizers on the quality of the soil, especially in comparison with natural compost. Students will begin by creating their own compost. The “Compost in a Bottle Lab” is a long-term lab that should be started 3-4 weeks prior to beginning this lesson. Try to time it so that this lesson comes at the time when students are collecting their last set of data on their compost. Students also create a presentation product.
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.
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.
Santa Fe National Historic Trail
Santafetrail.org Activities and Lessons
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Santa Fe Trail Association, the official partner of the Santa Fe National Historic Trail, offers a plethora of activities and packets for grades K-8. This site also offers a number of additional resources, including an interactive trail map with detailed explanations of each stop on the trail. Resources could easily be adapted to fit any curriculum!
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.
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.
Fort Larned National Historic Site
A Tale of Two Towns
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Santa Fe Trail was on important commercial route connecting the Eastern US with the Southwest and beyond into Mexico. The story and images in this virtual traveling trunk tells how this trail got started.
Fort Larned National Historic Site
Dwellings of Fort Larned: An Earthy Experience
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Fort Larned was established on the Santa Fe Trail in 1859. The soldiers built crude dugouts, sod and adobe shelters, and a picket stockade fencing for the animals. Students will explore the construction and the living conditions of the fort dwellings.
Old Spanish National Historic Trail
Old Spanish Trail Road Trip
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
We’re off on a grand adventure: a road trip across the famous Old Spanish Trail! The Old Spanish Trail was an arduous 1,200 mile route between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Los Angeles, California, which served traders who loaded their pack mules with woolen goods from Santa Fe each fall and returned from California each spring with goods, mules, and horses. The Old Spanish Trail linked two provinces of Mexico separated by difficult topography and climatic extremes.
George Washington Carver National Monument
George Washington Carver - An Original Conservationist: Sharing the Soil
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
For this activity students will create a brochure for farmers. The brochure will describe the needs each crop has (soil type, weather, etc.), the impact of the crop on the soil and the different ways the crop can be used. Students will focus on cotton, tobacco, peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes. The goal is for students to understand the impact cash crops may have on soil quality and how farmers can replenish their soil through crop rotation.
Gateway Arch National Park
Heritage of the Southwest Traveling Trunk
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Pueblo and Navajo Nations, alongside Spanish settlers, have all greatly influenced the culture and economic development of the Southwest. Experience these three different cultures through the travels of Susan Magoffin, who was one of the first Anglo women on the Santa Fe Trail in the 1800s.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Cultural Dress
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail put him in contact with a variety of southwestern cultures. This lesson offers insight into how cultural dress differed during the 1840s and was used to understand the wearer's society, class, occupation, and access to materials.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Business Ventures
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail put him in contact with merchants and traders during the 1840s when the political climate was shifting with Mexico. This lesson explores the risks, decision-making factors, and consequences of doing business in this region during the fur trade era.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Intercultural Kinship
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail put him in contact with a variety of southwestern cultures. This lesson offers a chance to reflect on how family unions across cultures both helped and hindered successful operation of the Bent, St. Vrain, & Co. during the 1840s.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Trade Goods
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail alongside traders and merchants gave him a firsthand perspective of how trade was conducted during the 1840s in the southern Great Plains. This lesson gives students a chance to practice trading goods and consider historical forms of commerce.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Trading Post Labor
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail produced a collection of observations that include the multicultural nature of labor in the southwestern borderlands in the 1840s. This lesson offers an opportunity to analyze the Bent, St. Vrain, & Company's dependence on skilled labor from various classes, ethnicities, and national origins.