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Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

Journaling

• Type: Field Trips ... Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The Student Journal is intended to focus the students' learning while they explore Craters of the Moon. It will help to reinforce the knowledge they have already gained through their classroom study of Craters geology, cultural history, and ecology. Upon returning to the school, the teacher can instruct the students to refer to their Journal notes for further Craters exploration.

Acadia National Park

Nature Journaling

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

Students will explore nature through journaling in a notebook. Students will learn to observe nature with four of their five senses. Students will notice how shadows change over time and with the seasons and develop a model of why these shadows change over time.

Cumberland Island National Seashore

Student Weather Journal

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will be able to collect and record their own weather data. Printable journal.

Acadia National Park

"Historic" Journal Activity

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students are able to explore life in an 1800’s homestead. They will write narratives to explain their understanding of life at an 1800’s homestead.

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

Lesson 1 - JOURNALING WITH SONGS OF FREEDOM

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

This lesson plan is designed to accompany the two disc cd set FREEDOM IS COMING: SONGS OF FREEDOM, RESISTANCE, AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. The set may be obtained from the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, 916 N. Peters Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70116, www.nps.gov/jazz

Cowpens National Battlefield

The Battle of Cowpens: The Journal of James Collins

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

To help students gain skills in understanding a primary (original) historical source, i.e., a journal as it relates to the Battle of Cowpens.

Keweenaw National Historical Park

Commercial and Non-Industrial Occupations Post-Visit Activity 1: Discussion and Journaling

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

Students will be able to reflect upon their visit to the Calumet Visitor Center and name at least two observations about photography or entrepreneurs in the displays.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Boy, What a Day! January 17, 1781

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

Student will journal the events of January 17, 1781 as a part of the militia, cavalry, Morgan, Howard, Washington, British Legion, or Continentals.

Fort Matanzas National Monument

Notice like a Naturalist!

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Virtually join a ranger live from the park and discover the natural world. Make it a journal page with your observations, questions, and connections alongside your sketch.

Olympic National Park

Restoring the Elwha River

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

This activity focuses on the plans to remove the dams, restore the river, and return salmon to the Elwha River watershed. Students will complete reflection journal entries on dam removal and river restoration.

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

Clatsop and Chinookan Culture of the Lower Columbia River Traveling Trunk

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

This trunk uses the journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to learn about the American Indian peoples--Clatsop and Chinookan, who lived at the mouth of the Columbia River when the expedition visited the area in 1805-06.

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

Clatsop & Chinookan Culture of the Lower Columbia River Traveling Trunk

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This trunk uses the journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to learn about the American Indian peoples--Clatsop and Chinookan, who lived at the mouth of the Columbia River when the expedition visited the area in 1805-06.

Cape Lookout National Seashore

Cape Lookout Lighthouse Traveling Trunk

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

This traveling trunk will teach students about this important aspect of our maritime history. Through journals, hands-on artifacts, and classroom activities, your class can experience some of the daily activities of a lighthouse keeper.

Saratoga National Historical Park

Dear Diary

• Type: Primary Sources
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The Battles of Saratoga not only had significant effects on national and world history, but also deeply affected those directly and indirectly involved. “Dear Diary” uses primary source documents—journals—to examine this crucial event through the eyes of participants.

Andersonville National Historic Site

Libby life: experiences of a prisoner of war in Richmond, Va., 1863-64

• Type: Primary Sources
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

As a lieutenant colonel of the 114th Pennsylvania volunteers, Cavada was captured at Gettysburg, July, 1863. His journal extends from that date to March, 1864. The appendix (p. 205-221) contains a list of Libby prisoners who requested its publication (Dec. 1863)

Acadia National Park

Acadia Rock Identification

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

Students will make observations of rocks along the shore of Mount Desert Island (site to be determined by teacher). Students will categorize rocks, and will use resources to identify types of rocks. Students will create a journal entry with drawing and description so work can be continued in the classroom without the rock sample.

Death Valley National Park

Mining Unit: Discovering a Stamp Mill

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

This lesson is part of a cross-curricular mining unit focused on the impacts of miners on the Death Valley community and environment. This is the introductory lesson which provides students journal writing opportunities to explore their meaning of discovery. Students will watch a short online video on mining in Death Valley and actively sequence the steps of a typical stamp mill.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Traveling the National Road: Unit 3 Travelers and Transportation on the National Road

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

This unit covers travelers and transportation on the National Road, teaching the students what types of vehicles traveled the road and what it was like to travel. It includes background information for the teacher, two student reading and two student activities: Stagecoach and Conestoga Wagon Coloring Sheet and Traveler’s Tools. One of the student readings is a journal of an emigrant family.

Acadia National Park

Poetry in Nature

• Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Once students have made their observations, instruct them to write a poem about them. You can have them use any form of poetry, or you can instruct them to focus on a specific form (haiku, five senses, etc.) or element (sound device, imagery, etc.).

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

Lesson 4 - ESCAPE

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

This is the fourth set of lessons in a multi lesson unit. In this unit students journal in the first person as if they are passing through the experience of Escape. It is based on the two-cd set Freedom Is Coming: Songs of Freedom, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad, available from the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, 916 North Peters Street, New Orleans, La, 70116. www.nps.gov/jazz