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Fort Scott National Historic Site

Life on The Frontier

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

The purpose of this program is to acquaint the students with life at Fort Scott in the 1840s.

Fort Larned National Historic Site

Footsteps of a Frontier Soldier

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

Follow the footsteps of those who called Fort Larned home.

Fort Larned National Historic Site

Women of the Military Frontier

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Men weren't the only people at frontier military posts - women lived at these forts as well. Find out who they were and how they spent their days.

Fort Scott National Historic Site

Frontiering with Family and Friends

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

Junior Ranger Badge for Frontiering with Family and Friends.

Fort Larned National Historic Site

Life at a Frontier Fort

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

In this lesson, students will examine those who lived at a frontier fort, their daily duties, and how their lives compare to today. Students will then apply their knowledge to write an imaginary letter describing their life at the fort.

Gateway Arch National Park

Frontier Classroom Traveling Trunk

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

Schools were much different in the 1800s compared to today's classrooms. In this traveling trunk, students will join the adventures of four children--Toussaint, Joshua, Catherine, and Jessie--as they experience schools in early St. Louis and on the Western frontier.

Fort Larned National Historic Site

A Day in the Life of a Frontier Soldier

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

Find out what it takes to be a soldier in frontier army. And visit the barracks where soldiers at Fort Larned lived.

Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park

Frontier Life in the Texas Hill Country

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

Lyndon B. Johnson NHP is an ideal location for students of all ages to explore President Johnson's life story and legacy. Join us from home or your classroom to learn about life in the Texas frontier when President Johnson's ancestors settled in the Texas Hill Country in the late 1860s!

Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site

Life on the Frontier: 4th - 5th grade

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

There are many questions people ask when they start learning about history. Frequently, those questions are about everyday experiences. What was it like to be a child growing up on the frontier? How did children get to school? What types of toys did children have to play with? How did they cook food?

Fort Scott National Historic Site

We The People: Life at A Frontier Fort

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

We the People explores the many roles present in the community of people who called Fort Scott and the surrounding area home in the 1840s.

Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park

Frontier Life in the Texas Hill Country

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

What was it like to live in the Texas frontier in the 1860s? Learn about the settlement history of the Texas Hill Country and how it impacted different communities and the local natural environment.

New Philadelphia: A Multiracial Town on the Illinois Frontier

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

Who were the Americans that settled the United States' 19th century frontier?

Fort Scott National Historic Site

We the People: Challenges of Life at a Frontier Fort

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

Students will be able to write an imaginary letter describing what life was like at a frontier fort in the 1840’s.

Canaveral National Seashore

America’s Space Program: Exploring a New Frontier

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

The lesson can be used in American history, social studies, and geography courses in units on the space program, the Cold War and its effects on American society, or interdisciplinary units on science and technology.

Booker T Washington National Monument

War on the Home Front: Post Visit Activities

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

The Civil War and its outcomes were life-changing events for all the people, both free and enslaved, who were associated with the Burroughs Plantation from 1850 – 1865.

Booker T Washington National Monument

War on the Home Front: Civil War Reading Passage with Graphic Organizer

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

The Civil War and its outcomes were life-changing events for all the people, both free and enslaved, who were associated with the Burroughs Plantation from 1850 – 1865. Students will learn about: •Life on a piedmont Virginia, slaveholding tobacco farm •National debate on slavery/Differences between North and South •Why the war was fought •How the enslaved and their owners reacted to the war •How each group was affected after the war

Mount Rainier National Park

Volcano Fan Club

• Type: Science Labs
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students simulate tephra transport by placing ingredients in front of running fan, and mapping the resultant layers.

Chapter 6 Lesson Plan: The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963

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

Iva G. and Evans B. Davis in front of their home in Flint, Michigan. Photograph. n.d. Davis Family Archives.

Fort Stanwix National Monument

Through the Oneida Carrying Place: Travel, Trade, and Conflict

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

How did European/Native contact on the New York frontier influence the development of early America? When this virtual tour is complete, students will have a brief overview of European/Native relations in early American history. Including how trade, war, and politics on the New York frontier affected both sides.

The Freeman School: Building Prairie Communities

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

One community, one room. Discover the red-brick schoolhouse where a frontier town's children learned and its families gathered.