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Agate Fossil Beds National Monument

Death Traps

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This scripted slideshow for teachers describes the process by which animals have died and become fossilized in waterholes, influenced by a severe drought. It compares two sites, separated by 13 million years: Agate Fossil Beds and the Badlands. It is designed to teach students the principles relating to the behavior, habitat and survival of living animals; as well as scientific study of past life forms known as fossils; and severe climatic events.

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site

Fort Union Fur Trade Overview

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

This map highlights the significance of Fort Union's location among the Upper Missouri Plains Tribes.

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site

Fort Union Fur Trade Overview

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This document provides background information for teachers on Fort Union trading. For 39 years, Fort Union was the longest-lasting and most profitable fur trading post on the Upper Missouri River.

Sitka National Historical Park

Soft Gold: The History of Russians in Alaska/ Middle and High School

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

The Fur trade, as well as the trade of other natural goods and resources, was a significant driver in the European settlement of North America. Between the French and the British, North American became divided over the issue of fur hunting, trapping, and trading- with Native Americans becoming caught in the middle of these European nations. The same is true in Alaska.

Fort Vancouver National Historic Site

Guided Tour of HBC Fort Vancouver

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

The classic Fort Vancouver Field Trip experience! Classes, teamed up with a guide, participate in an interactive walking tour inside the reconstructed HBC Fort Vancouver.

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.

Assateague Island National Seashore

Kindergarten| Feathers & Hair: What Animals Wear!

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Whether it is feathers, fur, skin, or hair, young learners will explore what animals wear with a story that comes to life with props and pantomime. Program Length: 45 minutes NGSS: 1-LS1-1

Everglades National Park

"Greenhouse Gasses" Climate Change: 4-6th Grade

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

This is an active, running game. Students will be able to show how infra-red radiation is trapped by greenhouse gasses. Students will understand what happens to the temperature of the planet if more greenhouse gasses are put into the atmosphere.

Glacier National Park

Carbon Cycle Capers

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

Students will be able to identify the cyclical relationship between carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and plants on earth which trap and store carbon. This is a fast-moving game of tag which pits the “trees” against the “CO2 molecules”.

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve

Mystery in a Cajun Community

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

Come visit the Prairie Acadian Cultural Center and solve the mystery of Farmer McDonald's knocked over crawfish traps. Students will become investigators and learn about crawfishing and Cajun culture while improving literacy skills.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

William's Wheel of Fortune Lesson Plan

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

This lesson plan engages the decisions made by William Bent, the manager of Bent's Fort's trading post during the fur trade era in the context of westward expansion. It examines contributing factors leading to the near extinction of bison herds decades later.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Cultural Contact Lesson Plan

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

This lesson examines the origin of trade goods during the fur trade era and how commerce in early Colorado history served to increase settlement and westward expansion. It demonstrates how international markets have been and continue to be essential to the success of a nation’s economy.

Gateway Arch National Park

St. Louis From the Beginning (Distance Learning)

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

Learn about the French fur traders who founded the city of St. Louis in 1764, including the lives of merchants Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau. Students will also learn about the rise of St. Louis as a commercial trading post along the Mississippi River.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Flora on the Plains: Grasses, Trees, and Agriculture

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

Follow alongside a trading caravan with Josiah Gregg to observe how plant life contributed to and threatened survival in the southern Great Plains. Consider how human impact and responsible management of natural resources was necessary during the fur trade era just as it is today.

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site

Assiniboine Children

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Fort Union epitomizes the mutually advantageous interaction of American Indian and European American cultures associated with the fur-trading empire on the Upper Missouri region of the American frontier. This reference document describes aspects of Assiniboine life, Assiniboine childhood, and the tools used by adults.

Gateway Arch National Park

St. Louis From the Beginning

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

In 1764, French fur traders founded St. Louis on the grounds that are now Gateway Arch National Park. In this program, students visit the "Colonial St. Louis" gallery in the museum and learn about the ways St. Louis became a prosperous river town and trading post.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Equal Exchange Lesson Plan

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

This lesson on equal exchange identifies specific trade goods and their approximate worth in dollars during the 1840s fur trade era. Students will consider various options available to make equal trades based on those values and represent them using equivalent algebraic expressions.

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site

Fort Union Society and Trading

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Daily life at Fort Union Trading Post reflected the social and economic relationship between and within American Indian and European cultures associated with the 19th century fur-trading empire. This teacher resource document provides a unique look into Fort Union's inhabitants and social hierarchy.

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.

Homestead National Historical Park

Prairie Animals (K-2)

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

The trunk includes curriculum materials, tracks, scat, animal furs and animals skulls that can be integrated into science, art, reading, and language arts curriculum. Additionally, the curriculum materials include student station sheets, so students can rotate stations without the teacher having to repeat instructions.