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Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
Uncovering Beringia: The Lost Continent
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Travel back in time to learn about the animals and landscape of Beringia during the last ice age! Students will join a Park Ranger to explore the role of Beringia and Bering Land Bridge National Preserve in the history of human migration into the Americas.
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.
Fort Raleigh National Historic Site
A Few Good Colonists
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Lost Colonists prepare to march into the unknown.
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
The Lost Cause: Chattel Slavery and Corroborating Evidence (Grades 9-12) Lesson 2 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This is the 2nd of 3 lessons that help students learn about the nuances of romanticized myth and incomplete histories in western North Carolina (WNC). In this lesson, students will dive into different claims, myths, and studies about chattel slavery in WNC. Despite old myths claiming WNC was uninvested in chattel slavery, evidence points to a different history. Students will use historical evidence to understand the impact of chattel slavery and forced migration on WNC.
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
The Lost Cause: Colonization, Chattel Slavery, and Migration (Grades 9-12) Lesson 1 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This lesson addresses the migratory history of western North Carolina and the myths about the region. Migration from the South Carolina Lowlands to the mountains of western North Carolina created many racial, economic and spiritual changes for everyone in the region. Wealth brought new development along with increased hierarchical discrimination and social practices. As many summer homes were built there were far more enslaved and free laborers who made the migration possibl
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
The Lost Cause: Slave Narratives in Western North Carolina (Grades 9-12) Lesson 3 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This is the 3rd of 3 lessons that help students learn about the nuances of romanticized myth and incomplete histories in western North Carolina (WNC). This lesson enables high school students to analyze the Lost Cause narrative that rose after the Civil War. Students will use primary and secondary sources to study the foundations of the Lost Cause revisionist history, from racism to regionalism. Students will develop analytical skills to study history that still divides the American people.
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Archeology at Fort Stanwix, On-Site Education Program
- Type: Field Trips ... Field Schools & Institutes
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
What can we learn from the trash and lost objects of the past? “Dig in” to the stories of the past as we prepare objects for the future!
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This in-class presentation explores the tools a student needs to hike safely in the desert ecosystem. Students learn their directions, things to bring with them, and what to do if they get lost.
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.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Geography: Navigation and Isolation on the Great Plains
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Getting lost in unfamiliar surroundings is a common human experience. In this lesson students will take on the role of navigator and mapmaker to pinpoint a location. By doing so, students will recognize that migration across the Great Plains landscape in the 1830s and 1840s required a unique set of survival skills and navigational tools.
National Park of American Samoa
Siapo: The Traditional Fabric of the Samoa Islands
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Siapo, is one of the oldest Samoan cultural art forms. For centuries, Siapo has been passed down from generation to generation. Unfortunately, it is becoming a lost art. Siapo is not only a decorative art, it is a symbol of Samoan culture. It is used for clothing, burial shrouds, bed covers, ceremonial garments, and much more.
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
Erosion: Washing Away the Earth
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Erosion can be a major issue. It is caused by a number of factors, both manmade and natural. The effects of erosion are very evident on Arctic coastal villages that are experiencing storm surges and no longer have the added protection of longer lasting sea ice. Research indicates that both the storm surges and lost of sea ice are the result of climate change.
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
Inventory + Monitoring Evaluations
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will get to view excavation sites that our paleontologists visit and do an easier version of what our paleontologists do here at the parks. They will virtually tour the excavation pit and 2 petrified stumps.
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
Consider the Source: The Stories We Tell and The History We Know (Grade 6 -8) Lesson 3 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This is the 3rd of 3 lessons designed to contribute to middle school student's working knowledge of Black history in Western North Carolina (W.N.C.) and to give them the skills to identify common myths of the region as well. This lesson introduces critical thinking concepts such as anachronisms and explores myths and deferred histories from W.N.C. This lesson is intended to exercise historical thinking skills and encourage the dialogue studied in previous lessons.