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Montezuma Castle National Monument
A Past Preserved in Stone: A History of Montezuma Castle National Monument
- Type: Primary Sources ... Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Want to know the indepth story of Montezuma Castle over the last 100 years? This is the book for you!
Big Cypress National Preserve
Park or Preserve?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will understand the purpose of the National Park System and the types of places that are protected by the NPS. Students will distinguish between a National Park and a National Preserve. Students will identify the various ways in which NPS employees and visitors manage, explore and interact within the preserve and why
Statue Of Liberty National Monument
Preserving a Symbol
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
At the end of the lesson, students will be able to: 1. Identify the different natural elements that have helped the Statue of Liberty change color over time. 2. Describe how the oxidation process can impact metals like copper. 3. Interpret whether the Statue of Liberty will hold as much cultural significance today had the copper not oxidized
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
The People: Pre-1845
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Discussion questions for the web article exploring the history of the Hidatsa Mandan Arikara Nation pre-1845. Discussion includes information about the early villages, early explorers, Sacagawea, oral history, education and societies, and tribal origins.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Preservation at Mount Rushmore
- Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Learn about the various preservation concerns at Mount Rushmore. By learning to recognize the various types of rocks found in Mount Rushmore and their different characteristics and varying rates of erosion, students will be able to understand the complexity of caring for a monument like Mount Rushmore.
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve
Barataria Preserve Pioneers
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
American Indians were the first human pioneers to live in Louisiana's swamps. Through this field trip, students will learn the challenges of living in a new land and what it was like to work with limited materials, just as the American Indians and early settlers from Europe, Africa, and Asia did.
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
The People: Pre-1845
- Type: Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This background reading material explores the history of the Three Affiliated Tribes from Pre-1845. It covers the Early Villages, Sacagawea, and other people of historic significance who visited the region and villages for exploration and trade.
Fort Pulaski National Monument
Pre-visit Graphic Organizer
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students can complete the spider acitivty as a pre-visit activity prior to making a field trip to Fort Pulaski. Answers are included.
Fort Pulaski National Monument
Pre-visit Student Worksheet
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This is a worksheet for students to do prior to their visit to Fort Pulaski. Answers are included.
Fort Pulaski National Monument
Pre-visit Crossword Puzzle
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students can review the history of Fort Pulaski while completing this crossword puzzle. It serves as a pre-visit activity before taking a field trip to Fort Pulaski. Answers are included.
President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site
Family Ties (Pre Visit)
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students are encouraged to bring or upload one of their baby pictures and one old family photo to Google Classroom. Teacher will organize them in Google Slides and display the images to the class to identify "who is who' in their class.
Glacier National Park
Erosion and Preservation of the Water Table
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Teacher will demonstrate or have students take turns, pouring water on different ground covers to observe which holds the sediments in place better.
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
Economy and Trade: Pre 1845
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In Economy and Trade: Pre 1845, students will learn about trade relations between tribes prior to European contact and how their experience prepared them for success in dealing with explorers and traders after European contact by re-enacting trading as it was practiced at Knife River Villages.
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
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.
Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site
What is Preservation?: 4th – 5th grade
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
What is the difference between preservation and restoration? How do people help preserve the past in their daily lives? Students will learn about the concept of “preservation” and the careers that work in preservation.
Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site
Preserving the Past: 6th - 8th grade
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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.
Fort Pulaski National Monument
Fort Pulaski Pre-Visit Materials
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
These materials provide pre-visit information for teachers and students who are planning a field trip to Fort Pulaski. There is a fact sheet and timeline for teachers and worksheet for students.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Snowshoe Field Trip Pre-visit
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Coming on a snowshoe field trip to Sleeping Bear Dunes? Find out what to expect from a snowshoe visit to Sleeping Bear Dunes, as well as which animals are found in the park and what adaptations they have to survive during the winter season.
Olympic National Park
FDR’s New Deal Environmental Preservation
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will be able to argue by using multiple sources the effectiveness of FDR’s Relief, Recovery and Reform Programs toward environmental preservation.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Glen Haven Pre-visit Activity
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
he Glen Haven tour is designed to supplement classroom learning and bring history to life by providing students with new, first-hand experiences relating to Michigan’s maritime heritage through the mission of the National Park Service to “…preserve and protect…”