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Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Buffalo Soldiers and the Medal of Honor
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Adult Education
What is a Hero? Join a Park Ranger for a 45-minute PowerPoint presentation on Buffalo Soldiers and the Medal of Honor. During the almost 90 years that the Buffalo Soldiers served in segregated US Army units 30 Buffalo Soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor. They received the medal for actions in the Plains Wars through the Korean War. Discover four of the men who were awarded the nation’s highest honor for bravery. This program can be given in person or virtually.
Lewis and Clark National Historical Park
Me and My Park
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
A shorter ranger-conducted program for Pre-K. Designed for this age group's attention span. Includes science, a walk, and a fort program with a ranger and age appropriate activities.
Mississippi National River & Recreation Area
Take Me to the River
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Take Me to the River is a hands-on educational program designed for fourth graders run out of Hidden Falls Regional Park each fall. The program focuses primarily on the cultural history of the river, but also addresses geography, geology, and physical science through hands-on activities. Students rotate through three activity stations led by National Park Service rangers including orienteering, geocaching, shelter-building, and fire-building.
Olympic National Park
What's Living Around Me?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Students will explore and investigate 4 different areas around campus (mud puddle, rocky parking lot, grass field, tree base) to determine other living things in those areas and what they might need from those areas.
Lake Clark National Park & Preserve
Can You Identify Me?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will have the opportunity to study and identify fish as really wildlife biologists. They will watch clips taken of salmon swimming up stream through the Silver Salmon Weir in Lake Clark National Park. Their job will be to use their identification cards and see how many salmon they can identify as they swim past. Be careful -- some salmon look awfully similar!
Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve
You Can't See Me
- Type: Field Trips ... Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
On this field trip, students will understand the importance of natural coloration and camouflage in survival, considering the colors of various animals found at the park. They will look for colored items placed in a wooded or grassy area. This outdoor activity could also be done in another natural area or on school grounds.
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park
Lincoln and Me: Exploring the Past and Present
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Childhoods today are very different than they were for Lincoln! Meets Kentucky 2nd grade social studies standards. This lesson was created by Kentucky teachers as a part of the History and Science Explore Project.
Cane River Creole National Historical Park
Virtual Ranger Visit: What Symbolizes Me?
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
As a perfect introduction visit, students will join a Park Ranger in real time to learn about the National Park Service, and the symbolic meanings of the Arrowhead Patch! In an activity that sparks creativity, students will be able to design their own patch that represents themselves.
Whitman Mission National Historic Site
Primarily Me: Primary Sources from Whitman Mission
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Primarily Me is a lesson for older elementary students to explore the various primary sources from Whitman Mission NHS and learn about how primary sources help us learn about the events of the past and how they can be used in different ways.
Everglades National Park
"Tell Me a Story" Native People: 4-6 Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will enjoy listening to a tale passed down by the Seminoles about how the world came to exist. Students will discuss why people told stories both historically and today. Then they can develop their own stories about things they observe in the world around them.
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
National Parks: Where Plants Hold a Place of Honor! Grades 2-3
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This lesson plan, designed for grades 2 and 3 uses common core and ngss standards to teach students that some National Parks were established to protect specific plant species. In doing so, students will learn the importance of plants within their ecosystems.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Black Valor During the Spanish-American War
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Adult Education
The Buffalo Soldiers were called to action during the Spanish-American War. At the start of the five-month war the men of these Buffalo Soldier units were labelled as heroes and praised for their sacrifices. However, at the war's end, the men's reputation had turned with negative press and gross insinuations. What changed? What happened that they were cut out of the picture with the Rough Riders?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson plan explores the Patent Office building, the site of President Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural ball.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
How can close reading of an informational text help me explore and understand the history of the Blackstone Canal?
Gateway Arch National Park
Celebrating Community
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
In this program, scouts will explore the Museum at the Gateway Arch and its history galleries to discover how communities celebrate and honor special people and events in the past and today.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Understand why George Washington was so revered during his lifetime and beyond, and learn why it took 100 years to complete this famous monument in his honor.
Lewis and Clark National Historical Park
Fort Clatsop Explorers Traveling Trunk 6-8th Grade
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Fort Clatsop Explorers provides objects and activities about the Lewis and Clark Expedition and their winter stay at Fort Clatsop in 1805-06. A few of the objects included are: buckskin clothing, candle mold, flint-n-steel fire starting kit, powder horn, trade items, Jefferson Peace Medal, examples of furs and a housewife (sewing kit).
Lewis and Clark National Historical Park
Fort Clatsop Explorers Traveling Trunk 3rd-5th Grade
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Fort Clatsop Explorers provides objects and activities about the Lewis and Clark Expedition and their winter stay at Fort Clatsop in 1805-06. A few of the objects included are: buckskin clothing, candle mold, flint-n-steel fire starting kit, powder horn, trade items, Jefferson Peace Medal, examples of furs and a housewife (sewing kit). An educators guide contains hands-on activity ideas and descriptions of some of the essential articles carried by the Lewis & Clark Expedition
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Henry O. Flipper, Colored Cadet at West Point
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Adult Education
Henry O. Flipper was born enslaved and became the first African American officer and graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1877. However, during his fifth year of service, on June 30, 1882, he was dishonorably discharged from the Army. Flipper fought to regain his honor for the rest of his life. He continued to serve as a public servant, working for the Department of the Interior as well as an engineer.
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park
Family Matters: The Life of a Slave Family Pre-Visit Activity
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Family was central to Harriet Tubman's life. As she wrote, "I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land; and my home, after all, was down in Maryland; because my father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were there. But I was free, and they should be free." What compelled Tubman to return for her loved ones on multiple trips to guide them to freedom?