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Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone Distance Learning
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Schedule a live virtual visit with a Yellowstone park ranger! Teachers can request a K-12 distance learning program on a wide variety of Yellowstone topics.
Gateway Arch National Park
Heading West? (Distance Learning)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This distance learning program introduces k-2 students to some of the challenges and choices early pioneers faced while traveling west across prairies, rivers, and mountains from St. Louis to Oregon and California.
Gateway Arch National Park
Lewis and Clark (Distance Learning)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students in this distance learning program will learn about the Corps of Discovery's expedition to the Pacific Coast from St. Louis, a round trip that took three years to complete between 1803 and 1806. They will also learn about the lives of Lewis and Clark and the people they interacted with during the expedition.
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
Distance Learning: A Beneficial Fire
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This distance learning opportunity explores prescribed fires. Ranger will walk students through the benefits of a prescribed fire, particularly within the prairie restoration process. Students will learn about equipment, personal protective equipment, and possible NPS careers in wildland fire management.
Badlands National Park
Bison Banquet - Distance Learning Program
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Badlands National Park is home to a population of approximately 800 bison. Learn about the bison's natural and cultural history as you explore the many traditional Native American uses of the bison. Students will see bison parts and brainstorm possible uses for these items. (45 minutes)
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Democracy Run Wild: Distance Learning Program
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
During Bleeding Kansas, conflicts at the ballot box, in the courts, and in the halls of government divided a town, a territory and an entire nation as people from all sides of the spectrum joined in a struggle for freedom in Kansas Territory.
Gateway Arch National Park
American Indians and the Great Plains (Distance Learning)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
In this distance learning program, students will compare and contrast their lives with that of traditional Plains Indian tribes during the 1800s. They will learn how tribes such as the Dakota, Lakota, Osage, and others used nature and the lands around them to shape traditional tribal customs, and discuss how westward expansion changed their way of life.
Gateway Arch National Park
St. Louis From the Beginning (Distance Learning)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Learn about the French fur traders who founded the city of St. Louis in 1764, including the lives of merchants Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau. Students will also learn about the rise of St. Louis as a commercial trading post along the Mississippi River.
Gateway Arch National Park
Building the Dream: Constructing the Gateway Arch (Distance Learning)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The process of creating the Gateway Arch took many, many years before its completion in 1966. Today, the National Park Service manages the Gateway Arch and educates people about the architectural significance of this structure. In this program, students will be taken back to the 1960s to learn about the process of conceiving, designing, and building the tallest national monument in the United States.
Saratoga National Historical Park
"Loyal to Whom?" Distance Learning - GRADE 4-7
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
"Loyal to Whom?" is an asynchronous, Distance Learning lesson designed for Grades 4-7. It looks at the complex issue of loyalties during the American War for Independence (American Revolution) with the Battles of Saratoga as a case study.
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Distance learning module offered by the Midwest Archeological Center, which introduces the topics of archeology and stewardship. Students will learn about the National Park Service, the resources it conserves, and how everyday objects offer information about life in the past.
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will tour a number of famous archeological sites, learning how archeologists locate and define those sites. Discussion will strengthen understanding of archeological sites and why they are important. Topics include site stewardship and how students might deal with objects or locations that they believe are potential archeological sites.
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Excavations and excavation tools are designed to answer greater questions about the past. Students will review a working excavation, and see some of the methods that archeologists employ at active dig sites. The discussions are built around the ethics of stewardship and can expand to topics on the environment, sustainability, and responsibility.
George Washington Carver National Monument
George Washington Carver - Struggle for Education Distance Learning Program
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson focuses on numerous obstacles George Washington Carver faced and overcame in order to earn his education and how he became a role model of perseverance and success. Following this program, students will list three obstacles to education that George Washington Carver faced, two states where he lived while going to school, and one helpful character trait he possessed.
Gateway Arch National Park
The Old Courthouse: Its Architecture and Its Story (Distance Learning)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Echoing the architecture of the ancient Greeks, the Old Courthouse served as the civic hub of St. Louis during the 1800s. Learn more about the significance of the building and how it was used by local and national citizens.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Distanced and Displaced Lesson Plan
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This 8th grade lesson compares political maps of Native American homelands before and after westward expansion. It traces the cause factors leading to the cession of original Cheyenne and Arapaho lands prior to relocation in Oklahoma.
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Learn at the Ledges
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Hike the Ledges and discover how geologic processes have shaped the land. Look for evidence of how erosion and deposition have changed the land, examine how weathering occurs and explore the rocks that make up the Ledges.
Wright Brothers National Memorial
Distance, Speed, and Time of the First Flight
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
How did the Wright brothers know they had successfully achieved the first flight? Three days before what we know of as the first flights, Wilbur took a test flight from the base of Kill Devil Hill. During this on-site lesson plan, students will explore the flight line using the distance/rate/speed equation and will decide why Orville's flight on December 17th earns the title of first flight. Subject: Mathematics. Grade: 6th-8th.
Homestead National Historical Park
Learning about the Homestead Act
- Type: Primary Sources
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In "Learning about the Homestead Act," students utilize a written document analysis worksheet to practice the skill of analyzing primary sources (The Homestead Act).
Assateague Island National Seashore
Learning from Spanish Coins
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson, students learn about 18th-century Spanish currency. Teachers can use the lesson plan to help their students investigate how archeologists use artifacts like coins to come up with a relative date for an archeological site. Students will understand how archeologists use newer technologies, such as 3D modeling and Virtual Reality, in order to analyze and interpret artifacts and objects.