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Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve
French and Indian War Activity
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Representing the competing interests of the European nations on a global scale, set in the North American contenient. These battles ultimately shaped political and cultural divisions across the world, especially here in Louisiana that are still felt today!
Fort Necessity National Battlefield
George Washington and the French and Indian War
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Talk with one of Fort Necessity National Battlefield’s park rangers via video conferencing equipment about young George Washington and the French and Indian War. Using George Washington’s actions and writings students will see how his ambition, hard work and experiences helped him mature into the famous man we all know today.
Fort Necessity National Battlefield
The French and Indian War 1754-1763: How Did The War End? - Unit 5
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This unit teaches the students about how the war ended with the Treaty of Paris, and what the consequences were to the different groups who were involved. Both the American colonists and the American Indians were not involved in the peace treaty. The lesson includes background information and one student activity, “Making Peace.”
Fort Necessity National Battlefield
The French and Indian War 1754-1763: How Did The War Progress? - Unit 4
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This unit teacher the students about how the French and Indian War progressed after its start at Fort Necessity. The students use a timeline to learn about the major battles and events from 1753 through the end of Pontiac’s War in 1765. The lesson includes background information and one student activity, “Time Line.”
Fort Necessity National Battlefield
The French and Indian War 1754-1763: Biography Cards - Unit 7
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this unit students learn about 27 people who participated in the French and Indian War through biography cards written for the students to read. Each card is illustrated with artifacts, documents and a timeline of the person's life. There are nine American Indian, nine French and nine British biography cards. Included are four activities to help the students will learn interesting facts about the participants and how they were affected by the French and Indian War.
Fort Necessity National Battlefield
The French and Indian War 1754-1763: How Did the War Set the Stage for the American Revolution? - Unit 6
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This unit teaches the students four ways the French and Indian War set the Stage for the American Revolution. It includes teacher background information, a student reading, and two lesson plans. Thought provoking opinion question get the students to think about the history.
Fort Necessity National Battlefield
The French and Indian War 1754-1763: What Were They Fighting For? - Unit 2
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This unit teaches the students what were the wants and needs of the British, French and American Indians. When there was conflict each group would fight to preserve what they wanted and needed. The three student reading outline what each of the three groups valued. The lesson includes background information and one student activity
Fort Necessity National Battlefield
The French and Indian War 1754-1763: Primary Documents and Artifacts - Unit 8
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This unit includes one lesson plan: “Working with Primary Documents and Artifacts." Students read about one of 14 primary documents or artifacts associated with the French and Indian War, and then analyze the document or artifact.
Fort Necessity National Battlefield
The French and Indian War 1754-1763: How Did the Conflict Begin? - Unit 3
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This unit teaches the students how the French and Indian War began. The students learn about George Washington’s 1753 trip to Fort LeBoeuf, read about George Washington in the French and Indian War, analyze the Fort Necessity surrender document and learn how Benjamin Franklin participated in the war. The lesson includes background information and four student activities
Fort Necessity National Battlefield
The French and Indian War 1754-1763: Who Were The People Involved? - Unit 1
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This the first unit of the teacher’s guide and introduces the students to the three cultures involved in the French and Indian War: the British, the French and the American Indian. A mapping activity is used to show how conflict over land would lead to the war. The activity that introduces the students to the American Indians will help them have a better idea of that culture. The lesson includes background information and two student activities.
Gateway Arch National Park
Indian Lore
- Type: Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
At the Museum at the Gateway Arch, scouts will learn about the traditions, practices, and histories of American Indian tribes in a variety of regions, but specifically about the Osage Indians who played a major role in the history of St. Louis.
Cowpens National Battlefield
Weapons of the Revolutionary War
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Charleville Musket
Antietam National Battlefield
Women in the Civil War
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This lesson plan can be used to help your students explore some of the important roles that women had during the Civil War.
Keweenaw National Historical Park
Influence of War Post-Activity 2: Influence of War on Copper Industry
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to demonstrate the rise and fall of copper production and how it often coincides with times of conflict in the later years of mining.
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In 1847, Massachusetts Senator Edward Keyes called to end the U.S.-Mexican War. Keyes claimed it was an unjust war with a “darker shadow . . . the extension of slavery.”
Booker T Washington National Monument
War on the Home Front: Civil War Reading Passage with Graphic Organizer
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Civil War and its outcomes were life-changing events for all the people, both free and enslaved, who were associated with the Burroughs Plantation from 1850 – 1865. Students will learn about: •Life on a piedmont Virginia, slaveholding tobacco farm •National debate on slavery/Differences between North and South •Why the war was fought •How the enslaved and their owners reacted to the war •How each group was affected after the war
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Examine conditions of the Civil War's most notorious prison, and learn how inmates were able to cope.
Cowpens National Battlefield
Escape the Battlefield, Win the War!
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The Southern Campaign of the American Revolution was the catalyst for the eventual surrender of General Cornwallis and the British at Yorktown, Virginia. Students will be given an escape room mystery to solve related to certain battles of the Southern Campaign. They will have 60 minutes to solve the given mystery and get out of the escape room.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The Forgotten Warriors of the Civil War is the story of the tragic effect that the American Civil War had upon the tribes of the Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma). More than any other particular group in the United States at the time, the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole (the Five Civilized Tribes) were divided between loyalty to the Union and the secessionist Southern states. This lesson will teach students about why this “civil war within a civil war” occurred.
Aleutian Islands World War II National Historic Area
World War II in Alaska
- Type: Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This resource guide is designed to aid students and teachers in researching Alaska’s World War II history. It contains resources and references to allow students to conduct independent research into this little-known story of World War II. Included is a map of important World War II sites in the north Pacific and a summary of Alaska's World War II experience, as well as information about National Historic Landmarks related to World War II in Alaska.