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Moving Rocks
MO Outdoor Rangers
- Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Trading Post Labor
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail produced a collection of observations that include the multicultural nature of labor in the southwestern borderlands in the 1840s. This lesson offers an opportunity to analyze the Bent, St. Vrain, & Company's dependence on skilled labor from various classes, ethnicities, and national origins.
Marching for the Movement in St. Augustine
The Bean Lab: Elementary Lesson
Snow Characteristics Lab Activity
- Type: Science Labs
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this science lab activity, students take temperatures at different depths in the snow and compare them to the air temperature. They will discover the insulating effect of snow and understand that temperature varies according to snow depth.
Floodwaters in the Desert Lab Activity
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will explore precipitation through discussion, videos, and a PowerPoint presentation. For the lab activity, students will explore the way flood waters can affect the landscape and topography in the desert. Students will observe what happens to the landscape as different amounts of water are dropped on the hillside.
Time to Move: The Lincolns are Leaving Kentucky
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
It's time to move! Discover the factors that contributed to the relocation of the Lincoln family from their Kentucky home. Lesson plan includes video made by kids for kids! Meets Kentucky 3rd-5th grade social studies standards. This lesson was created by Kentucky teachers as a part of the History and Science Explore Project.
Who Says Plants Can't Move?
LBJ and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s
He Aha Lā He Kūkulu?
The Sharecroppers, Tenant Farmers, and Day Laborers
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this interactive lesson plan, students will explore the economic hardships and challenges for those who worked as sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and day laborers. Student groups will each follow the life of one person for a year - tracking their expenditures, and balancing their budget at the end of the season.
Freeing the Elwha (River Flows and Sediment Movement)
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Working in America: The Allegheny Portage Railroad and the Immigration Movement
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Working in America" is an interdisciplinary program designed to help students achieve state and national standards in History/Social Studies, Speaking/Listening, Geography, Arts/Humanities, and Technology Education. The working standards vary state to state, but there is substantail agreement on the knowledge and skills students should acquire.
HERstories of Cuyahoga Valley: the Suffrage Movement and Harriet Keeler
National Park Labs: Studies of Wildland Fire Ecology
- Type: Science Labs
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

National Park Labs: Studies of Wildland Fire Ecology curriculum is progressive and builds on the knowledge of each prior lesson. Teacher materials include guidelines that provide the concept, objective, method, materials, duration, procedures for conducting lessons, student handouts, and student investigation worksheets.
"Mangrove Propagule Lab" Habitat Video: Florida Bay
Buffalo Soldiers on the Move! How New Technologies Led to New Opportunities!
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Adult Education

As new modes of transportation were developed; they were adapted for military use. These new modes of transportation created new opportunities for soldiers to step into roles of leadership or be part of new regiments. African Americans took advantage of these new opportunities and combated the negative perception of their leadership abilities in the Army.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
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.