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- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson introduces students to the Kecoughtan people, an Indigenous Tribe that was located in what is now Hampton, Virginia. Students will examine the idea of "home" by learning about different aspects of life in the Kecoughtan's town.
Sitka National Historical Park
Soft Gold: The History of Russians in Alaska
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
How and why Russians came to and settled in Alaska is not only important for understanding Alaskan history, but also contains themes necessary for students to understand important historical ideas/concepts like trade, colonialism, and the rights of indigenous peoples. In addition, the efforts of Russian and other non-Alaskan native fur hunters had severe scientific, environmental, and cultural effects on this region and its indigenous peoples.
Gateway Arch National Park
American Indians and the Great Plains
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
American Indians have lived in North America for thousands of years. All of the lands that make up the United States today were exclusively Indigenous lands long before Europeans first arrived about 500 years ago. The growth of the United States through westward expansion challenged traditional ways of life for many Indigenous tribes during the 1800s as more settlers crossed the Mississippi River for a new life in the West.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The spotted salamander is indigenous to the areas surrounding the Natchez Trace Parkway. When the salamanders breed, they usually return to the same vernal pond from which they hatched. Unfortunately for some populations, this presents a hazard as the Natchez Trace Parkway is in between their forest habitat and the vernal breeding ponds.
Sitka National Historical Park
Exploring Conflict and Colonization: The Sitka Battles of 1802 and 1804
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
For nearly 70 years, the Russian American company oversaw a colonial empire from their seat of power in the Russian colony of New Archangel- but founding a colony on the native land of the Tlingit people was no simple task. In this robust, place-based distance learning program, come the Battles of 1802 and 1804 that occurred right here in Sitka, while discussing important historical themes like conflict, colonization, and the rights of indigenous peoples.
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Salem, Slavery, and the Sacred Cod
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
New England has deep historic connections to the slave societies in the West Indies (Caribbean). This lesson explores primary sources that implicate Massachusetts merchant families in the Atlantic slave economy.
Tumacácori National Historical Park
Life at Tumacácori
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will investigate how mission life differed from traditional O’odham village life. Did mission children go to school? What did they eat? How does construction of a traditional O’odham home compare to a mission church built from mud? Learn why, when, where and how, as you tour the park’s orchard, garden, and church with a ranger. Students will practice using a traditional mano and metate and learn how to “mud” an O’odham home.
Tumacácori National Historical Park
River Ramble
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This exploratory walk highlights the ecology of the Santa Cruz River Valley. This program will also touch upon the importance of river corridors as locations for traditional O’odham villages. Students will learn about the plants that were used for clothing, tools, and food. Learning will involve inquiry, sensory activities, and language arts.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Flags and National Identity
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The records Lewis Garrard kept during his ten-month journey along the Santa Fe Trail provide an outsider's view into intercultural interactions in the 1840s. This lesson features how national identity and sovereignty have been communicated through dress, color, and symbols in early American history as well as today.
Lowell National Historical Park
Change Over Time: Through Children's Eyes Virtual Field Trip
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Discover the stories of people who came from all over the world to Lowell and who now make up the city’s diverse community. By investigating primary sources, oral histories, and objects, students learn about the immigrant groups who arrived in the U.S. in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, including why they came, how they met the challenges of settling in a different environment, and how they contributed to their new community.
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
Guided Tour of HBC Fort Vancouver
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The classic Fort Vancouver Field Trip experience! Classes, teamed up with a guide, participate in an interactive walking tour inside the reconstructed HBC Fort Vancouver.
Glacier National Park
What's In A Name?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students decipher scientific name meanings and use native plant field guides, information from the tribes, or links to online resources provided to create a chart of the different names for the same native plant.
Glacier National Park
Native Harvest
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Discussion of the value of native plants and plants as cultural resources. Students have access to materials, library, internet to do plant research. Best if can also do field trip to park or other wild area to see native plants in their natural setting.
Glacier National Park
Oral Histories and Glacier National Park
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students read and compare/contrast the cultural stories about creation of land formations with “A Geological Story of Glacier National Park.” The teacher will lead a discussion about story telling, oral history, and different explanations for the same phenomena.
Glacier National Park
Painted Lodges
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students learn about the uniqueness of lodge designs and connection with animals. They use art skills to design their own lodges, write explanations of, and share designs. An optional activity is to construct a scale model lodge.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn about one of the nation's most important conservation laws--the Antiquities Act of 1906--and how its passage preserved important cultural sites such as Tonto National Monument, which preserves remnants of the Salado culture prior to European contact.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn about traditional Hopi culture and farming at Awatovi, a historic pueblo where enduring Hopi traditions and American archeological research reveal much about this important place.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Both France and Spain raced to settle and control the southern coast of North America. On a small island off the coast of present-day South Carolina lie the ruins of Charlesfort, the French outpost for a year, which later became Santa Elena, a Spanish colonial town from 1566 to 1587. The site has been abandoned now for more than 400 years.
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
Gran Quivira: A Blending of Cultures in a Pueblo Indian Village
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The quiet remnants of the village of Las Humanas, now called Gran Quivira, only hint at the vibrant society that thrived here until the late 17th century. Today it is one of three sites that make up Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Sustainability: Lessons from the Anishinaabek
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will travel back in time to the late 1800's in the area that is now Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. After roleplaying as either settlers or Native Americans in groups, they will draw conclusions on what it means to be truly sustainable in today's world.