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Historical Characters
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this activity, students will learn about nine key participants in the Battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma and the Siege of Fort Brown. They will discover how the personalities of these key leaders helped them during these clashes and influenced their outcome. Students them compare their own personality traits to discover how they are like or different from these leaders.
Saving History: The White House, Dolley Madison and the War of 1812
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The events leading up to the burning of the White House during the War of 1812 have been well chronicled. Among the most celebrated events of the war was the saving of George Washington’s portrait by Dolley Madison before the White House was torched. Thanks to a letter written by Mrs. Madison prior to her escape this event is recounted. Recently, however, an expert concluded that perhaps the write the letter was written later - perhaps 20 years later. From the White House Historical Associati
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Before the end of legal slavery in the United States, free African Americans migrated to Canada to find greater security and liberty. After the Civil War, some returned to the U.S. to aid emancipated people and rebuild the South. Mary Ann Shadd Cary was a business woman, abolitionist, and suffragist.
Discover Colonel Young's Protest Ride for Equality and Country: A Lightning Lesson from Teaching with Historic Places, featuring the historic Colonel Charles Young House
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
During WWI, African American Colonel Charles Young rode horseback for two weeks to protest discrimination in the U.S. Army.
"Historic" Journal Activity
The People’s House
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will explore Delaware’s historic capitol, The Old State House, and its many functions through the years including a view of Delaware governments in the past. The locations where the branches of government historically conducted business will be pointed out on the building tour. The program takes place around The Dover Green.
Teaching With Historic Places Curriculum
Why Visit His Home?
Castle Williams Historic Structure Report
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Fort Jay Historic Structure Report
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Conococheague Aqueduct Breach Historical Photos
Building a Mississippian House
Housing: Early Homes
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Road to the White House
History on Trial
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
History Hunters
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This activity trunk is designed to introduce learners to the ways that historians, archeologists, and anthropologists use primary resources to learn about the past. Students will role-play by wearing costumes identifying each as an anthropologist, archeologist, or historian.
History and Technology
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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Field Trips to Old Swedes Historic Site
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Governors Island NM Historic Resource Study
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade