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Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site
North American Indian Migration into North Dakota
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson plan compares and contrasts the Great Plains and the Central Lowlands, identifying different tribes territories on maps, and explaining the ways the climate regions influenced Upper Missouri Plains Indian culture in North Dakota.
Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site
North American Indian Migration into North Dakota
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson, students will compare and contrast the Great Plains and the Central Lowlands. Then, students will identify different tribal territories on maps. By the end of the lesson, students will answer the following essential question: How did the different climate regions of North Dakota influence Indian cultures in those regions?
Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Pirates of North Carolina
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson is designed to introduce students to pirates who plagued the coast of North Carolina during the time of colonization, as well as to develop research skills in technology and write a research report. They will use a variety of strategies and writing process elements in the composing of their report. It will allow students to integrate research of social studies/history of the colonial era with technology, reading, and writing.
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.
Olympic National Park
North Olympic Watershed (N.O.W.) Science Program
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Working with the Feiro Marine Life Center and the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, the N.O.W. Science program is an inquiry based exploration of the Peabody Creek watershed.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Follow a trail of discovery to the Pacific Northwest. Although the corps' findings destroyed the dream of a water route to the Pacific Ocean, their accomplishments had far reaching effects in expanding human knowledge and opening a new course for American history.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn about America's role in World War II and how US troops ousted the Japanese from Attu Island to gain control of the rest of the Aleutians.
Aleutian Islands World War II National Historic Area
Attu: The North American Battleground of World War II
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In early June 1942, America had cause for jubilation and despair. The war news told of coordinated attacks by the Japanese on Midway and the Aleutian islands. At the Battle of Midway, American planes sunk four Japanese aircraft carriers and destroyed or hundreds of planes. But in the Aleutians, the Japanese bombing had been successful, and they occupied the islands of Attu, Agattu, and Kiska.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Explore With Your Senses - Grade K (Tennessee or North Carolina)
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Complete field trip packet for a Great Smoky Mountains visit that includes: Explore With Your Senses Pre-Site Lesson, information and directions about the field trip and Wrap-up part 1 and 2 post site activities. One packet for TN educators and one packet for NC educators.
- 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.
- 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.
Richmond National Battlefield Park
Neither Cold Nor A Harbor: Archeology and a Civil War Soldier’s Experience at the Battle of Cold Harbor
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In June of 1864, the soldiers at Cold Harbor had to make use of the limited resources they had to survive. They used repurposed materials and their own hands to dig trenches and earthenwork mounds that would protect them from gunfire and mortar shells. This lesson plan combines artifact and map inquiry to learn about the Civil War landscape. Este plan de clase con actividades incluido también está disponible en español.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
What is a “total solar eclipse”? What historic place might you study to answer this question?
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
The Lost Cause: Slave Narratives in Western North Carolina (Grades 9-12) Lesson 3 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This is the 3rd of 3 lessons that help students learn about the nuances of romanticized myth and incomplete histories in western North Carolina (WNC). This lesson enables high school students to analyze the Lost Cause narrative that rose after the Civil War. Students will use primary and secondary sources to study the foundations of the Lost Cause revisionist history, from racism to regionalism. Students will develop analytical skills to study history that still divides the American people.
Glacier National Park
Locating Glacier National Park
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will label three maps to locate and identify landmarks near Glacier National Park in ever greater geographic areas: Glacier National Park and surroundings; the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada; and North America.
Moores Creek National Battlefield
Choosing Sides: Loyalist v. Patriot
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson plans highlights why North Carolina colonists chose to side with either the Loyalists or the Patriots
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn how the deceptive results of this battle in the backwoods of North Carolina helped set the stage for American victory.
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
Virtual Field Trip to Fort Vancouver
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Join us for a virtual field trip of Fort Vancouver! Students will watch videos, participate in activities, and read about the lives of kids who lived and worked at Fort Vancouver.
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
Consider the Source: Migration to the Mountains: From the Lowcountry of Charleston, South Carolina to the highlands of Flat Rock, North Carolina. (Grades 6-8) Lesson 2 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This is the second of three lessons intended to exercise critical thinking, historical dialogue, and empathic skills. This lesson enables middle school students to develop an understanding of how geography, disease, migration, and racism influence societal changes in Western North Carolina. Students will use secondary and primary sources to understand causes and effects in antebellum western North Carolina society over time.
Sitka National Historical Park
Soft Gold: The History of Russians in Alaska/ Middle and High School
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The Fur trade, as well as the trade of other natural goods and resources, was a significant driver in the European settlement of North America. Between the French and the British, North American became divided over the issue of fur hunting, trapping, and trading- with Native Americans becoming caught in the middle of these European nations. The same is true in Alaska.