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A Key Into the Language Of America
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This lesson plan introduces students to "A Key into the Language of America" and provides a glimpse into the complex relationship Williams had with the Narragansett and gives a first-hand account of 17th-century native culture. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to answer the question: How did Roger Williams’ A Key into the Language of America foster understanding of daily life, work, and relationships between the Native Americans and colonists?
LESSON 9- LANGUAGES OF POWER
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will read the text and engage in discussion to examine how language can be a source of power and resistance. They will fill in a summary sheet on the reading.
Culture: Languages, Food, and Stereotyping
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Are you animated when you talk? The way we express ourselves is often a combination of culture, family, and individual personality. In this lesson, students will practice reading non-verbal communication cues with peers before reading Josiah Gregg's account of multicultural immersion during the fur trade era. Students will examine his descriptions for cultural stereotype.
The Art of Field Guiding
LESSON 10: LANGUAGE LESSON- NONC BELOUTE
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This is a fun and catchy song. Using it in the lessons will add to the fun. Students will learn additional Kréyol phrases. It is hoped that word and phrases are beginning to sound familiar due to previous lessons. Follow same template as HEY NOM and SAN MALÓ.
Samoan Art in the Tatau (Tattoo)
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Samoa islands are a beautiful tropical paradise located in the South Pacific Ocean. The islands are rich in culture, history, legend, and known for its beautiful landscape and climate. One of the most legendary parts of Samoan culture is the tatau or tattoos represent the spiritual and cultural heritage of the islands.
Art Criticism and Mount Rushmore
- Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
LESSON 5 - HEY NOM: FIRST LANGUAGE LESSON
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This is the first of the language lessons in this unit. The lessons are designed to be delivered by teachers with no knowledge of Kréyol, French, or the teaching of foreign languages. They are not designed to make students fluent speakers, but instead to familiarize them with the language.
Art Alive! (Grades 1-4)
- Type: Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students participating in a field trip at Weir Farm National Historical Park learn about the three generations of American artists who lived and painted her, and experience the authentic, untouched landscape that inspired them. Here are additional pre-visit and post-visit classroom activities for your students!
Art Alive! (Grades 5-8)
- Type: Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students participating in a field trip at Weir Farm National Historical Park learn about the three generations of American artists who lived and painted her, and experience the authentic, untouched landscape that inspired them. Here are additional pre-visit and post-visit classroom activities for your students!
Art Alive! (Grades 9-12)
- Type: Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students participating in a field trip at Weir Farm National Historical Park learn about the three generations of American artists who lived and painted her, and experience the authentic, untouched landscape that inspired them. Here are additional pre-visit and post-visit classroom activities for your students!
Native Art and Activism of the Grand Canyon
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

The area known today as the Grand Canyon has been home to people for over 13,000 years, with 11 contemporary tribes having links to the area. Many individuals in these tribes have inspired their own communities, and the country, with their traditional art. Some tribal members have bestowed historic structures around the canyon with their artwork, while others have utilized art as one of many tools towards activism and uplifting their communities.
Morale Art of the Cold War Era
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Arts Crafts Clothing and Appearance: Parfleche, Quillwork, Basketry
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Many arts and crafts of the Hidatsa served a utilitarian purpose such as parfleches, which were multipurpose cases made of rawhide, and burdon baskets that could carry large amounts of much needed items like vegetables. In this lesson, students will explore how burdon baskets and parfleches were made then construct, make and decorate a replica parfleche.
Arts, Crafts, Clothing and Appearance: Flint, Pottery, Painting
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Hidatsas and Mandans made tools, housewares, clothing, toys, and musical instruments from things that were available nearby or sometimes farther off if the material was important in the production of the item. In this lesson, students will tell a story by designing a buffalo robe like people did during Knife River Village days and they will discuss and portray how people might describe the life-ways of today one hundred years from the present using their media of choice.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Ann Axtell was a prominent archeologist, artist, and author. Ann spent much of her time recording and painting architecture, petroglyphs and pictographs, landscapes, and expedition work. Many of her recording methods are still in use today by modern archeologists. Este plan de clase con actividades incluido también está disponible en español.
He Aha Lā He Kūkulu?
Nature, Art and Conservation at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School, stated “The ravages of the axe are daily increasing desecration by what is called improvement; which as yet generally destroys Nature’s beauty without substituting that of Art.” This unit, Nature, Art and Conservation at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park, will explore this very issue through on-site visits, school based lessons and independent research. For this unit students will begin by reading Marsh’s Man and Nature...
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- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This dynamic STEAM-based program incorporates Common Core Standards in science, mathematics and language arts while exploring the history of railroading in the region and its impact on the environment.