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- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
How did Chinese and Japanese immigrants develop California's industry and culture?
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Women and the Manhattan Project
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Lesson Plan: Students explore the roles of women during the Manhattan Project at Hanford, Los Alamos, and Oak Ridge.
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Ohio & Erie Canal: Teacher Resources
- Type: Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Materials for educators who teach about Ohio history or canals.
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Low Bridge, Everybody Down
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Explore the Canal Exploration Center to learn about the history and economic importance of the Ohio & Erie Canal. Learn about this time period as you view a historic canal lock, hike on the Towpath Trail and discover primary sources that provide narratives of life during the canal era.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Today the cotton gin is quiet. The commissary, where sharecroppers could buy supplies, looks as if someone just closed and locked the door. Hoes, oxen yoke, and ploughs rust in the blacksmith's shop. What froze this place in time? What clues tell the history of this place? Let's begin the story.
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park
Exploring the C&O Canal's Cushwa Basin
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will learn about preserving the C&O Canal as a place to learn and explore our history, describe the C&O Canal as an early transportation system including canal operations, lock technology, and life for canal workers, and explain the concepts and effects of various earth processes, including: weathering, erosion, deposition, and flooding.
Old Spanish National Historic Trail
Old Spanish Trail Road Trip
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
We’re off on a grand adventure: a road trip across the famous Old Spanish Trail! The Old Spanish Trail was an arduous 1,200 mile route between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Los Angeles, California, which served traders who loaded their pack mules with woolen goods from Santa Fe each fall and returned from California each spring with goods, mules, and horses. The Old Spanish Trail linked two provinces of Mexico separated by difficult topography and climatic extremes.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Assess the importance of America's early canal system and its economic and social effects.