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Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail
Defense of a Nation: War of 1812 Teacher's Guide
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
A Teacher's Guide to the War of 1812.
Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail
Defense of a Nation: Maryland's Role in the War of 1812 - A Teacher's Guide
- Type: Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Information provided in this guide will help make teaching this important history easy and accessible. The guide presents the major players in the war, its major battles, direct quotes from eyewitnesses, and information on additional resources.
Colorado National Monument
Ciclo de Rocas
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
At the completion of this lesson, students will be able to identify one or two ways that rocks can be broken down and/or combined and students will be able to describe the rock cycle of the sandstone.
Acadia National Park
Sieur de Monts Stewards
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students explore various trails and the new Nature Center exhibit to delve into the topic of human change in the environment. This program takes place along easy to moderate hiking paths with some uneven terrain.
Saint Croix Island International Historic Site
Sieur de Mad-Lib
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Use our words and your own silly words to fill in the blanks in Pierra Dugua's story of how and why he came to North America.
Acadia National Park
Sieur de Monts Scavenger Hunt
- Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Sieur de Monts has limited accessibility in the winter but can offer great flat locations to explore. Use this scavenger hunt to guide your experience. Fill out at least 3 activities to print the scavenger hunt certificate.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn about one of the nation's most important conservation laws--the Antiquities Act of 1906--and how its passage preserved important cultural sites such as Tonto National Monument, which preserves remnants of the Salado culture prior to European contact.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn about Alaska's Site Summit and Nike Hercules, a nationwide ground-based anti-aircraft missile system that protected the U.S. during the Cold War.
Scotts Bluff National Monument
"Symbols of Our Nation"
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This fun lesson is appropriate for kindergarten and first grade.
Rocky Mountain National Park
What are National Parks?
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
What is a National Park and what were they created to protect? Meet with a ranger to investigate the meaning behind each symbol within the National Park Service emblem and explore various NPS sites across the country.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will analyze the arrowhead logo as an introduction to the National Park Service. Students learn how the design of the National Park Service arrowhead is made up of symbols, and then have a chance to create their own design specific to Hawai‘i. We will then be introducing ways that we can help care for our parks through the 7 Leave No Trace principles, and help students to understand that the National Parks belong to each and every one of us!
National Park of American Samoa
What is a National Park?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The National Park of American Samoa is one of over 400 units of the National Park Service. This activity helps students explore and understand the various units in the system.
Haleakalā National Park
What is a National Park?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will analyze the arrowhead logo as an introduction to the National Park Service, an agency whose mission is to protect and preserve natural and cultural resources for future generations and provide visitors with opportunities for recreation and learning. Students learn how the design of the National Park Service arrowhead is made up of symbols, and then have a chance to create their own design specific to Hawai‘i.
Haleakalā National Park
What Is A National Park?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to determine how Haleakalā National Park protects special native habitats and how the students can help protect them too.
Haleakalā National Park
What Is A National Park?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to determine how Haleakalā National Park protects cultural and natural resources and how the students can help protect them too.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This activity challenges students to look at different pictures of national park sites and try to guess which park the picture represents. The pictures page gives a distinguishing feature of each park and an interesting fact to help students match to the list of possible choices.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Flags and National Identity
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The records Lewis Garrard kept during his ten-month journey along the Santa Fe Trail provide an outsider's view into intercultural interactions in the 1840s. This lesson features how national identity and sovereignty have been communicated through dress, color, and symbols in early American history as well as today.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Symbolism in National Parks
- Type: Distance Learning ... Primary Sources ... Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
History of the iconic NPS Arrowhead logo, and a dive into what symbols are, and how we use them. Students will get activities to create their own symbols about their lives.
Glacier National Park
Create a National Park
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students create a mini-national park in a specified outdoor area, marking a nature trail and providing visitors with information about the park.
Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park
Our National Parks
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Learn the special role played by the National Park Service in preserving our shared natural, cultural, and historical heritage through the lens of the history of Paterson, New Jersey!