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Hands Over Time
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
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Students will recognize that handprint petroglyphs and pictographs may be prehistoric signatures. By leaving behind their own handprints on paper, students will increase their understanding of the value of petroglyphs and the need for their preservation.

Rocky Mountain National Park

Every Rock Has a Story
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Don't take these rocks for granite! Students will become geologists who learn how to describe and identify rocks by their family-sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic. Students will apply their knowledge to uncover the geologic story of Rocky Mountain National Park.

Andersonville National Historic Site

Narrative of privations and sufferings of United States officers and soldiers while prisoners of war in the hands of the Rebel authorities
  • Type: Primary Sources
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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This report, published by the non-governmental United States Sanitary Commission provides multiple accounts of the treatment of Union prisoners of war in Confederate military prisons.

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

War Has Been Declared: Elementary Lesson Plan
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Students create a timeline of events leading to the Civil War based on a series of articles from the National Park Service. Students will explore the issue of slavery as a major cause starting with the Missouri Compromise, The Dred Scott Decision, The Election of Lincoln, John Brown's Raid, and the numerous states secessions. Then, students become part of a regiment and complete hands-on activities as they discover the structure of an army.

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

War Has Been Declared: Middle School Lesson Plan
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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Students analyze the primary document, the Emancipation Proclamation and how it affected the Civil War and southern states. They work in teams to creatively share learned information from NPS videos about one of the final pushes in the Civil War, the Atlanta Campaign through Georgia. They listen to and draw meaning from soldier and author, Ambrose Bierce.

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
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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.

Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial

Field Trip to Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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A field trip to Lincoln Boyhood is a great way for hands-on learning.

Stones River National Battlefield

Stones River National Battlefield - Interactive Artillery Program - Load, Ready, Fire!
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Students will get a hands-on history experience while learning the importance of teamwork.

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site

Theodore’s Childhood Influences
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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This lesson has students examine how childhood has a lasting impact throughout life.

Niobrara National Scenic River

Cows in the Campground
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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By exploring the community of the Niobrara valley students will develop an understanding of the significance of development and its hand in hand existence with preservation of a natural resource students will: understand the interrelationships contained in the river system and write a descriptive essay, Two alternative essay assignments are also included.

Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site

Test the Waters - Middle School
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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Students explore their connections to water and participate in hands-on field research by collecting water quality data.

Tumacácori National Historical Park

Pancho's Scrapbook
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Hear the entire story of Tumacácori from someone who witnessed it first hand (or is it "first wing?").

Mississippi National River & Recreation Area

Take Me to the River
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Take Me to the River is a hands-on educational program designed for fourth graders run out of Hidden Falls Regional Park each fall. The program focuses primarily on the cultural history of the river, but also addresses geography, geology, and physical science through hands-on activities. Students rotate through three activity stations led by National Park Service rangers including orienteering, geocaching, shelter-building, and fire-building.

Fort Stanwix National Monument

My New Home On-Site Education Program
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
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Hands-on learning stations will introduce students to the lives of the children who followed their soldier fathers during the war.

Grand Teton National Park

Rock the Tetons
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Students learn about geology in simple, tangible ways while witnessing first hand versions of mountain building and erosion.

Acadia National Park

Sedimentary Sleuths Program Planner
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This hands-on program takes place at Sand Beach and is an exploration of geological processes such as weathering and erosion. Interpretation of geologic and topographic maps is included.

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

Looming and Learning: Threading the Past and Present
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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How many clothes do you own? Are any of them handmade? Why don't people tend to hand make their clothing at home anymore? This lesson will investigate our complicated relationship with something as simple as thread. Old Slater Mill was the first successful water-powered cotton spinning mill in North America. This place transformed the relationship US citizens had with their clothing. This hands-on activity investigates how our relationship with clothing has changed over the past 230 years.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

See, Touch, and Hear: Preschool-age students
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
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Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park has special things to see and touch. This field trip will enable preschool-age students to discover special plants and animals by using their senses.

Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site

Preserving the Past: 6th - 8th grade
  • Type: Guest Speakers
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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Students will explore the world of museum curators in this lesson. A variety of hands on activities allow students to experience different jobs including cleaning, pest control and more.

Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

Dwarf Buckwheat Plates
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Create life cycles with your students to view the life cycle of the Craters of the Moon dwarf buckwheat, a plant that is unique to the cinder flats at Craters of the Moon.