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Andersonville National Historic Site

Exploring Humanitarian Law

• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The primary intention of Exploring Humanitarian Law (EHL) is to help young people embrace the principles of humanity in their daily lives and in the way they assess events at home and abroad.

White Sands National Park

Human History Traveling Trunk

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Targeted Grades: Grades 3-7. Can be used with older and younger students.

Women's Rights National Historical Park

Women’s Rights are Human Rights

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

In this series of four lesson plans from the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor, students will be able to explore the development and growth of the American women's rights movement. This includes lessons about the Seneca Falls Convention, the Erie Canal, and the later women's rights movement. Developed by educator Lynn Girven of the Rochester City School District.

Cape Lookout National Seashore

Horses and Humans: Shackleford Horses Unit

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

This science & math unit features the wild horses of Shackleford Banks. See attached complete unit.

Andersonville National Historic Site

The American Civil War: A Humanitarian Perspective

• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Learning about humanitarian law helps students connect lessons of the past with the issues of the present. Students will explore historical events through the lives of those who experienced the American Civil War and will participate in hands-on exercises that make for challenging and exciting class projects and discussions. The lessons will also help students develop critical thinking skills and character.

Lowell National Historical Park

The Human Impact on the Living Planet Virtual Field Trip

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Tracing the water cycle, from precipitation to surface water runoff, students investigate how humans’ impact the health of the environment. Through stories of everyday activities, students make predictions, conduct observations, and formulate conclusions as our staff conduct live experiments. After observing the test of a simple water filter, students propose changes to improve the design and discuss ways in which their community can reduce its impact on Earth’s resources.

Herbert Hoover: Iowa Farm Boy and World Humanitarian

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

Consider the impact of Hoover's boyhood years on his desire to help starving children as the administrator of the Belgian Relief Commission during World War I.

Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site

"Where Do Human Rights Begin? In Small Places Close to Home."

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

This packet includes 4 different activities to help students understand the legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt and her work on social justice issues. Students will learn about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its impact on the lives of all people as well as Eleanor Roosevelt's impact on the country through her "My Day" columns.

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

Why People Move: Human Migration (Grades 3-5) Lesson 1 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS

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

Using examples from North Carolina's own migration history this lesson helps upper elementary students to understand the different types of human migration. Examples range from antebellum mountain summer homes to post-Civil War African American history. Western North Carolina has a long history of human migration in many forms. This lesson is a fun introduction to migration vocabulary with interactive activities to encourage critical thinking and the use of context clues by students.

Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site

First Lady of the World: Eleanor Roosevelt at Val-Kill

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

Examine how Roosevelt's use of her at home reflected her interest in human rights and her leadership in creating the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Glacier National Park

Models of Succession

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

Students apply the process of succession to human activity and examine human habitat construction and its effects on the natural environment -- by building a model of a city and demonstrating their succession theories.

Natchez Trace Parkway

Out of the Depths and into the Park: Geology of the Mississippi River Valley

• Type: Distance Learning ... Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Learn the role of geologic activity in drawing people to the Mississippi River Valley. This 45-minute program discusses the physical and human characteristics of places and regions and how they are connected to human identities and cultures.

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha (Should the Dams on the Elwha be Removed? A Classroom Debate)

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

Dams have been useful to human populations in providing water and energy for development of wilderness areas. Should we remove dams that have outlived their use in order to enhance the sustainability of natural and human communities?

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

National Park Legacy - Coyotes in our Cities! Grades 3 - 4

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

The Nature Neighbor Project prioritizes reducing conflicts between humans and wildlife so that they can coexist and share available habitat. Ecologists have learned that coyotes are opportunistic eaters, and they will scavenge through trash as well as feed on traditional foods such as rodents, birds, insects, and grass. Coyote and human conflicts can often be eliminated when human-related food is not available.

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.

Glacier National Park

Boundaries and People

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

Students will study maps and watersheds to understand natural boundaries and the movements of humans and wildlife.

Yellowstone National Park

Making Tracks

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will compare the tracks of grizzly bears, wolves and humans and make observations about their similarities and differences.

Potomac Gorge: A Natural Monument in the Shadow of National Monuments

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

On this field trip to either C&O Canal National Historical Park or the George Washington Memorial Parkway, students will conduct a field study activity, to identify some of the ways human impacts affect organisms that live in the Potomac and assess the human impact on a 20-meter stretch of trail in the park.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

Ko Kākou Mau Hoaloha i ka Ulu Lā‘au: “Our Friends in the Forest”

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Using the powers of observation, students learn the importance of our native forest and trees to humans in every day life.

Acadia National Park

Bird Data Scientist

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

Become a data scientist and use data to create an evidence-based argument whether humans are impacting migratory patterns of birds.