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Lewis and Clark National Historical Park
Stepping Off the Map
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Map making was an important part of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Maps of the era were often just best guesses as to what could possibly lie in the middle of the continent. In this lesson your students will learn about the maps of the expedition and even make one of their own based on descriptions.
Everglades National Park
"We're Sponging Off the Everglades" Water: 4-6 Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will learn about the interconnections between our actions and the water we receive and use straight from the aquifer that lays beneath the Everglades. Prepare to get wet !
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The lesson could be used in units on the settlement of northern New England or on life in the early national period. Students will strengthen their skills of observation, research, and analysis of a variety of sources.
Acadia National Park
What Do Rangers Do? (3rd Grade)
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
One hour classroom program that introduces kids to the unique jobs that different rangers do via skits. Program works in tandem with Junior Ranger Day and all of the events lead up to kids earning their junior ranger badge.
Acadia National Park
Junior Ranger Day (3rd Grade)
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
A proud new Junior Ranger shows off her official patch. NPS/Bob Thayer
First State National Historical Park
How the Native Americans Lived
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will travel back in time to gain an understanding of how people can survive off the land. This program takes place at the New Castle Court House Museum.
Voyageurs National Park
I Spy
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Why do the leaves fall off the trees in the fall? What happens to the flowers and butterflies in the winter? Students can learn to track seasonal changes around them and why these changes occur.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
5th Grade: Dunes Food Web
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will understand the components of a food web and how they interact. They will create a food web based off a “mini ecosystem” that was marked out along the trail. They will define “invasive species” and identify common invasive species in our area.
Olympic National Park
Freeing the Elwha (River Flows and Sediment Movement)
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Seasonal weather patterns affect the flow patterns of water into the rivers (and watersheds) of Western North America. What landform features can form when erosion is caused by fast –moving water from Spring and Fall rains, and snowpack melt off?
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Buffalo Soldier Love Stories
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Adult Education
How do our relationships and commitments to others effect our actions? These commitments are seen through the actions they take through various periods of joy, sadness, and hardships in the Army. Learn about the stories of African Americans who served in the military and how their commitments to their loved ones effected their actions on and off the battlefield.
Prince William Forest Park
Hike to the Cabin Branch Pyrite Mine
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn the history of the park's iron pyrite mine on this moderate, two mile hike that lasts around two hours. Rangers will hike with students to the old mine site, and give students the opportunity to learn about the park's mine reclamation efforts, stroll along a boardwalk, and see several existing foundations and capped off mine shafts.
- 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.
Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site
When is Compromise Necessary? The Compromise of 1850
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This 30 to 40 minute distance learning program introduces students to the difficulty of finding suitable compromises on difficult political issues. The program focuses specifically on the Compromise of 1850, a controversial series of laws that simultaneously protected slavery in Southern states and territories while closing off slavery in California. Students will study a series of primary sources documents followed by a facilitated dialogue with a park ranger.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
The Works of Faith: The Hunt Family Legacy
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
When Richard Hunt first came to Waterloo, NY in 1821, he found a boom town. He and his second wife, Jane, were closely associated with local Quaker families, and intimately engaged in local business ventures. Through their faith and their industry they effected change in the community, and beyond. Explore their works--from the Underground Railroad to their woolen mill, to the tea party that set off a rebellion.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The New Deal reform, recovery, and relief programs changed the relationship between American’s and their government in revolutionary ways. The Resettlement Administration (RA), Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), and the Farm Security Administration (FSA) were programs to get displaced families off relief. More than eighty years after the Matanuska Colony was established much of it remains to tell the story of the New Deal resettlement program in Alaska.
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
Arts, Crafts, Clothing and Appearance: Flint, Pottery, Painting
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Hidatsas and Mandans made tools, housewares, clothing, toys, and musical instruments from things that were available nearby or sometimes farther off if the material was important in the production of the item. In this lesson, students will tell a story by designing a buffalo robe like people did during Knife River Village days and they will discuss and portray how people might describe the life-ways of today one hundred years from the present using their media of choice.
Old Spanish National Historic Trail
Old Spanish Trail Road Trip
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
We’re off on a grand adventure: a road trip across the famous Old Spanish Trail! The Old Spanish Trail was an arduous 1,200 mile route between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Los Angeles, California, which served traders who loaded their pack mules with woolen goods from Santa Fe each fall and returned from California each spring with goods, mules, and horses. The Old Spanish Trail linked two provinces of Mexico separated by difficult topography and climatic extremes.