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Santa Fe National Historic Trail

Santafetrail.org Activities and Lessons

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The Santa Fe Trail Association, the official partner of the Santa Fe National Historic Trail, offers a plethora of activities and packets for grades K-8. This site also offers a number of additional resources, including an interactive trail map with detailed explanations of each stop on the trail. Resources could easily be adapted to fit any curriculum!

Acadia National Park

Migration Threats Activity

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will be able to identify the challenges birds face during migration by playing a game where each student is assigned a bird during migration.

Acadia National Park

"Historic" Journal Activity

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students are able to explore life in an 1800’s homestead. They will write narratives to explain their understanding of life at an 1800’s homestead.

Acadia National Park

Leaf Rubbing Activity

• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students can find three different leaves, use them to do a leaf rubbing and then use vocabulary words to describe the leaves.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Early American Activities

• Type: Science Labs
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

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Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve

French and Indian War Activity

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Representing the competing interests of the European nations on a global scale, set in the North American contenient. These battles ultimately shaped political and cultural divisions across the world, especially here in Louisiana that are still felt today!

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

Activities for Home - Dark Skies

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Night Sky over Kīlauea Caldera NPS Photo/Janice Wei

Statue Of Liberty National Monument

Be A Gumshoe: Self-Guided Activity

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Children's activity program at Statue of Liberty NM. 3rd grade through 5th Grade.

Acadia National Park

"Eastings and Northings" A Mapping Activity

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The lesson builds up slowly to read Map Grid References for later learning and practice orienteering. Orienteering is a navigation and sport activity that incorporates walking or jogging, determining directions, and map reading. The object of the activity is to use a map and compass to locate specific points in each area.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Revolutionary War Timeline Activity

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will construct an accurate timeline of ten Revolutionary War battles.

Saratoga National Historical Park

The Crucial Hour: Mapping Activity

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This activity is intended to be a simple exercise in analyzing and understanding how geography influenced decision making by both American and British armies in the Battles of Saratoga. It was originally planned for class use while visiting the battlefield, but it could also be used pre-visit in conjunction with the Saratoga National Historical Park virtual tour, or as a stand-alone activity.

Water Hunt Maze Activity

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this activity, students will play a maze game to help them understand how water was collected in the past and the different methods of water collection. In addition to the activity materials provided, students will need access to two six-sided dice.

Glacier National Park

Snow Characteristics Lab Activity

• Type: Science Labs
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this science lab activity, students take temperatures at different depths in the snow and compare them to the air temperature. They will discover the insulating effect of snow and understand that temperature varies according to snow depth.

Death Valley National Park

Floodwaters in the Desert Lab Activity

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will explore precipitation through discussion, videos, and a PowerPoint presentation. For the lab activity, students will explore the way flood waters can affect the landscape and topography in the desert. Students will observe what happens to the landscape as different amounts of water are dropped on the hillside.

Cedar Creek & Belle Grove National Historical Park

Battle of Cedar Creek Map Activity

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students learn about the sequence of events related to the October 19, 1864, Battle of Cedar Creek through a hands-on interactive map activity led by a park ranger. Students will move wooden pegs around a map while the battle is explained to them by a park ranger.

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

Lesson 4 - LIFE STORIES IN ACTIVISM

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Doratha Smith Simmons and Will Smith, civil rights activists.

Colonial National Historical Park

Interacting with Yorktown Through Outdoor Activities

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

One historic building on Yorktown's Main street.

Eisenhower National Historic Site

Molding of a Leader: Post Visit Activities

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Children will demonstrate that they will try to be a person of good character by creating a poster and/or by writing a letter to the Park Rangers to be displayed at the Eisenhower National Historic Site.

Acadia National Park

Carriage Road Explorers Post Activities

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Content is a post assessment, wrap up activity for the students who attend the Carriage Road Explorers in Acadia National Park. Students will describe the characters who were essential for the creation of the carriage roads.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Glen Haven Pre-visit Activity

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

he Glen Haven tour is designed to supplement classroom learning and bring history to life by providing students with new, first-hand experiences relating to Michigan’s maritime heritage through the mission of the National Park Service to “…preserve and protect…”