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Back Stairs at Brucemore: Life as Servants in Early 20th-Century America

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Understand the "servant" experience in early 20th-century America, as well as the pros and cons for women working in factories versus domestic service.

Flight 93 National Memorial

America Attacked

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

Program Objectives: Students will be able to: 1. Name three terrorist and their role in the September 11, 2001, attack 2. List two events leading up to the attacks on September 11 that had an impact on national security 3. Name the four targets and potential targets selected by the terrorist on September 11

Flight 93 National Memorial

Attack on America

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students visit the Memorial Plaza and learn of the events of September 11, 2001

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Symbols of America

• Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will learn what a symbol is and why symbols are used. They will learn symbols of both America and of South Dakota, as well as the significance behind these symbols.

First State National Historical Park

Growing up in the 18th Century

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

Discover what it was like to be a child in the 18th century. This field trip takes place around The Dover Green.

Weir Farm National Historical Park

Weir Am I? (Grades 1-4)

• Type: Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

A variety of classroom activities that can be done as stand-alone lessons or as a Pre-Visit/ Post-Visit lessons with a visit to Weir Farm.

Yellowstone National Park

Who Am I? (A lesson on animals and their habitats)

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Each student researches an animal that inhabits Yellowstone National Park and prepares an Animal Profile Card with ten facts about each animal. Students share Profile Cards and attempt to identify the unidentified animals.

Frederica: An 18th-Century Planned Community

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Discover why this British settlement was built and how it functioned as Great Britain and Spain each struggled to control land from Charleston to St. Augustine.

Roger Williams National Memorial

A Key Into the Language Of America

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This lesson plan introduces students to "A Key into the Language of America" and provides a glimpse into the complex relationship Williams had with the Narragansett and gives a first-hand account of 17th-century native culture. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to answer the question: How did Roger Williams’ A Key into the Language of America foster understanding of daily life, work, and relationships between the Native Americans and colonists?

“Tracking” Down the Secret Code / North American Animal “Who am I”

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

This lesson will present the diversity of animals found along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, and will help students understand what we can learn about animals from the way they live and move.

Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve

Slavery Systems in America, a classroom lesson

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

Students will use Kingsley Plantation as a setting to explore how slave systems in Florida varied under the Spanish, British, and American rule.

Log Cabins in America: The Finnish Experience

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Consider how simple, functional cabins, like those built by the Finns in Idaho, became symbols in American politics and folklore.

George Washington Carver National Monument

George Washington Carver - An Original Conservationist: Welcome to the 21st Century

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

This activity will serve as the culmination to an ecological unit, especially those on current environmental problems. Students will take the role of George Washington Carver from 100 years ago. They will evaluate current ecological problems as if they were George Washington Carver. Their goal is to understand how the world has changed in the last century but also to recognize how solutions for today’s problems may have been around for decades and just need to be implemented.

Gateway Arch National Park

Fun and Games at the Gateway Arch

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Learn about the lives and pastimes of nineteenth century boys and girls. Takes place at the Museum at the Gateway Arch.

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: A Moravian Settlement in Colonial America

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Learn why Moravians immigrated to the New World and how the towns they established embodied their religious beliefs.

Canaveral National Seashore

America’s Space Program: Exploring a New Frontier

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The lesson can be used in American history, social studies, and geography courses in units on the space program, the Cold War and its effects on American society, or interdisciplinary units on science and technology.

Fort Hancock: A Bastion of America's Eastern Seaboard

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Examine how changing military technology and U.S. budget debates influenced the development of Fort Hancock and the U.S. coastal defense system.

Badlands National Park

Bison by the Numbers

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

The American bison was an important species to Native Americans on the Great Plains of North America. However, as settlers moved west during the nineteen century, the population numbers dramatically dropped from overhunting. In this exercise, students will learn graphing skills while learning about this species that almost went extinct.

Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site

Working in America: The Allegheny Portage Railroad and the Immigration Movement

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

Working in America" is an interdisciplinary program designed to help students achieve state and national standards in History/Social Studies, Speaking/Listening, Geography, Arts/Humanities, and Technology Education. The working standards vary state to state, but there is substantail agreement on the knowledge and skills students should acquire.

Digging into the Colonial Past: Archeology and the 16th-Century Spanish Settlements at Charlesfort-Santa Elena

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Both France and Spain raced to settle and control the southern coast of North America. On a small island off the coast of present-day South Carolina lie the ruins of Charlesfort, the French outpost for a year, which later became Santa Elena, a Spanish colonial town from 1566 to 1587. The site has been abandoned now for more than 400 years.