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Hot Springs National Park
Turning Water into Medicine
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This student-led exploration of historic Fordyce Bathhouse Museum and Visitor Center allows students to use historical sources to understand how the bathhouses influenced medical practices in the United States in the early 20th century. Designed for 4th grade social studies lessons.
Cowpens National Battlefield
Herbs and Medicinals in the Backcountry
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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National Park of American Samoa
Tropical Rainforest for Medicinal Purposes
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Samoans have used plants and trees for about 3,000 years. Before Europeans discovered our islands, our ancestors depended on our tropical rainforest to sustain life, whether it would be for clothing, food or medicine. Samoans realized the importance of these resources. While these practices are still vibrant today, our younger generations are slowly losing the knowledge and understanding about the significance of native plants and trees and how our people use them for medicinal purposes.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Saws and Scalpels: Civil War Medicine
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Most of us today would not want to go the hospital if we could help it, because we associate hospitals with sickness and injury. However, because these two conditions occur with a great degree of regularity, hospitals often become a necessity to help us recover. During the Civil War, soldiers and civilians attached similar meanings to hospitals-a place of suffering, yes, but also a place of healing and recovery.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
(1860s) Saws and Scalpels: Civil War Medicine
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
During the program, students volunteers discuss symptoms, diagnose illnesses, and determine treatments. The Civil War Medical program can be presented any time of year, except during Life on the Frontier programs and special events, providing that staffing is available. Program time runs from fifteen to forty-five minutes. This version is designed for middle school level.
Lewis and Clark National Historical Park
Me and My Park
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
A shorter ranger-conducted program for Pre-K. Designed for this age group's attention span. Includes science, a walk, and a fort program with a ranger and age appropriate activities.
Mississippi National River & Recreation Area
Take Me to the River
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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.
Olympic National Park
What's Living Around Me?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students will explore and investigate 4 different areas around campus (mud puddle, rocky parking lot, grass field, tree base) to determine other living things in those areas and what they might need from those areas.
Lake Clark National Park & Preserve
Can You Identify Me?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will have the opportunity to study and identify fish as really wildlife biologists. They will watch clips taken of salmon swimming up stream through the Silver Salmon Weir in Lake Clark National Park. Their job will be to use their identification cards and see how many salmon they can identify as they swim past. Be careful -- some salmon look awfully similar!
Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve
You Can't See Me
- Type: Field Trips ... Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
On this field trip, students will understand the importance of natural coloration and camouflage in survival, considering the colors of various animals found at the park. They will look for colored items placed in a wooded or grassy area. This outdoor activity could also be done in another natural area or on school grounds.
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park
Lincoln and Me: Exploring the Past and Present
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Childhoods today are very different than they were for Lincoln! Meets Kentucky 2nd grade social studies standards. This lesson was created by Kentucky teachers as a part of the History and Science Explore Project.
Cane River Creole National Historical Park
Virtual Ranger Visit: What Symbolizes Me?
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
As a perfect introduction visit, students will join a Park Ranger in real time to learn about the National Park Service, and the symbolic meanings of the Arrowhead Patch! In an activity that sparks creativity, students will be able to design their own patch that represents themselves.
Whitman Mission National Historic Site
Primarily Me: Primary Sources from Whitman Mission
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Primarily Me is a lesson for older elementary students to explore the various primary sources from Whitman Mission NHS and learn about how primary sources help us learn about the events of the past and how they can be used in different ways.
Everglades National Park
"Tell Me a Story" Native People: 4-6 Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will enjoy listening to a tale passed down by the Seminoles about how the world came to exist. Students will discuss why people told stories both historically and today. Then they can develop their own stories about things they observe in the world around them.
President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site
Why Visit His Home?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Using a four square graphic organizer, draft, edit and publish a persuasive essay OR draft a speech to persuade OR create a Prezi to persuade the observer to visit the birthplace home of President Clinton.
Thomas Stone National Historic Site
History on Trial
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will search for clues to his innocence or guilt and in a mock trial to determine if Thomas Stone was a traitor to Great Britain or an American Patriot for signing the Declaration of Independence. Will your class find him guilty or innocent?
Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park
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.
Cowpens National Battlefield
History and Technology
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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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.
Lowell National Historical Park
Do History and Science at the Tsongas Industrial History Center
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Science, History and many more field trip opportunities for your students at Lowell National Historical Park!