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Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

The Battle of Harpers Ferry, 1862: Harpers Ferry is the Key!

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

When war broke out in April 1861, Harpers Ferry was still producing weapons for the U.S. Government, but that spring, the Confederates dismantled both weapons’ factories and sent the machines south. Teachers will find three resources for use in the classroom: a drawing of a Civil War soldier, list of items soldiers carried or wore, and a map of Northern Virginia and part of Maryland.

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

The Battle of Harpers Ferry 1862: Joining Up!

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

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Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

The Battle of Harpers Ferry 1862: Joining Up!

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

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Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

Incident at Harpers Ferry: Slavery and John Brown

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

In this lesson, students will share their thoughts on slavery, examine how our country dealt with this institution, consider how both pro-slavery elements and abolitionists looked at slavery and why, and learn a little about John Brown’s early life - in particular, his activities out in Kansas in the years 1855 – 1857. Students will then be able to answer the following essential question: What was slavery like in the antebellum United States?

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

Rats in a Cage Readers' Theatre

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In Rats in a Cage! students will learn about the mid-September 1862 Battle/Siege of Harpers Ferry through a dramatic representation. Using the provided script, students will assume the roles of some of the most important Union and Confederate soldiers, and some civilians, during that event.

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

Water Power: Field Trip

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

The physical and historical geography of the Harpers Ferry area demonstrates how landscapes shape human history and how human endeavors profoundly affect natural landscapes—a powerful reminder that the actions of today determine the opportunities of tomorrow.

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

John Brown’s Raid: Readers' Theatre

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

In this Readers' Theatre, students will learn why John Brown chose Harpers Ferry as the objective for his October 1859 raid, an event that was to be the beginning of the end of slavery in the U.S. They will also discover what happened during and after the raid, and have the opportunity to debate the question: Would you have joined John Brown’s raiders?

Rocky Mountain National Park

Every Rock Has a Story

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

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.

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.

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

War Has Been Declared: Elementary Lesson Plan

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

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

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.

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

Conflicting Values: John Brown and Adin Ballou

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

This lesson plan invites students to consider the conflicting views of leading abolitionists in the years leading to the Civil War. There is a special focus on Adin Ballou, a Practical Christian who advocated for non-resistance, and leaders who supported violent tactics.   

Chapter 4 Lesson Plan: The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963

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

NPS Employee talking to a group of children in Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. She wears the 1962 women's uniform with badge and pill box hat. She is not wearing the uniform coat. NPS History Collection photo by M. Woodbridge Williams.

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

A Nation Divided: Elementary School Lesson Plan

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

How did our young nation become so angry at each other? Students explore the word "infuriated" and how these emotions led to the Civil War. Students read and analyze excerpts from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. They work together to read and analyze an NPS article explaining a timeline of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia. They share perspectives on why these two events led to a Civil War and explore alternate methods to violence.

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.

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

A Nation Divided: High School Lesson Plan

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

Using their background knowledge of the tensions between the North and the South, students will dive further into the effects of the conflicts that ultimately led to the Civil War. Students will watch short NPS videos from rangers in Bleeding Kansas and Harper's Ferry. They will explore NPS articles and primary documents regarding popular sovereignty and the Election of 1860. Students will use visual arts to go into President Abraham Lincoln's shoes and deliver their own acceptance speech.

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.