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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Anishinaabe: Past and Present
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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The story of the Sleeping Bear comes from the Anishinaabe people. Learn more about who the Anishinaabe are, as well as some of their traditional lifeways through the various seasons.

Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument

Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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Understanding the effects of climate change in the past, present, and future. Learn how desert wetlands evolved over time.

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park

Lincoln and Me: Exploring the Past and Present
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
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Childhoods today are very different than they were for Lincoln! Meets Kentucky 2nd grade social studies standards. This lesson was created by Kentucky teachers as a part of the History and Science Explore Project.

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

Looming and Learning: Threading the Past and Present
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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How many clothes do you own? Are any of them handmade? Why don't people tend to hand make their clothing at home anymore? This lesson will investigate our complicated relationship with something as simple as thread. Old Slater Mill was the first successful water-powered cotton spinning mill in North America. This place transformed the relationship US citizens had with their clothing. This hands-on activity investigates how our relationship with clothing has changed over the past 230 years.

Cape Lookout National Seashore

Past, Present, and Future: Shackleford Horses Unit
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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Lesson plan activities designed to be used over 8 class periods, each activity will need 60 minutes. This lesson plan will cover 6th-8th grade social studies relating everything back to the horse on Shackleford Banks, NC. This lesson plan has several activities to get students discussing and creating maps, charts, graphs, and historical narratives that explain historic events.

Guadalupe Mountains National Park

Geology Lesson 1. The present is the key to the past.
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
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During the Permian period a sea covered the area and a reef started to form in this marine environment. The actual fossils you can find hiking the Permian trail at Guadalupe are remnants of this ancient feature. This lesson will help high school students to infer what happened in the area using important geological tools like rocks, fossils and satellite images.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

The People: Pre-1845
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Discussion questions for the web article exploring the history of the Hidatsa Mandan Arikara Nation pre-1845. Discussion includes information about the early villages, early explorers, Sacagawea, oral history, education and societies, and tribal origins.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

The People: Pre-1845
  • Type: Teacher Reference Materials
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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This background reading material explores the history of the Three Affiliated Tribes from Pre-1845. It covers the Early Villages, Sacagawea, and other people of historic significance who visited the region and villages for exploration and trade.

Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument

Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument Past vs. Present
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
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Independent reading comprehension. Students will describe the past species and climate of Tule Springs. Students will research the modern species and climate of Tule Springs. Students will theorize the effects climate change could have today at Tule Springs.

Gateway Arch National Park

Playing the Past
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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In the nineteenth century opportunities for women were often limited, but regardless of the challenges, women made significant contributions to our history as a people. Scouts will explore the topic at the Museum at the Gateway Arch.

First Ladies National Historic Site

Exploring the Past
  • Type: Distance Learning ... Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
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Young visitors will (virtually) look inside the historic home and compare their lives to a young girl in the 1800s.

Thomas Stone National Historic Site

Families of the Past
  • Type: Field Trips ... Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
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Students step into the past as theybecome familiar with daily life in a Maryland home in the late 1700s and learnabout Thomas Stone as a husband, father, farmer, lawyer and signer of theDeclaration of Independence. Students will compare life in the 18th century totheir lives today. Students will enjoy interactive tours of the house, groundsand Visitor Center as well as hands-on activities.

Hopewell Culture National Historical Park

Clues to the Past
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Archeology is the only way we have to study cultures like the Hopewell, who left no written records. Activities in this section teach the fundamental concepts necessary for understanding the Hopewell culture through archeology: the importance of the past, culture, observation, inference, context, and scientific inquiry. Teaching this section as a unit prior to the other lessons will prepare students to assimilate more easily information from the rest of the guide.

Hopewell Culture National Historical Park

Tracing the Past
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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This lesson is about the processes of archeology: finding, excavating, analyzing, and interpreting prehistoric archeological data.

Hopewell Culture National Historical Park

Remembering the Past
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Students are given an opportunity to examine their own beliefs and values about the past through these lessons.

Echoes of the Past
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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This lesson focuses on cultural and natural sounds. Participants should visit a culturally significant site within a park for these activities. Beginning with an historic overview of the location, the facilitator will segue into a group discussion of soundscapes present and past. Participants will be introduced to a brief history of the cultural site and learn how sounds influence culture and wellbeing. Requires a facilitator. culture and wellbeing. This lesson is b

Fort Pulaski National Monument

Pre-visit Graphic Organizer
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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Students can complete the spider acitivty as a pre-visit activity prior to making a field trip to Fort Pulaski. Answers are included.

Fort Pulaski National Monument

Pre-visit Student Worksheet
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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This is a worksheet for students to do prior to their visit to Fort Pulaski. Answers are included.

Fort Pulaski National Monument

Pre-visit Crossword Puzzle
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Students can review the history of Fort Pulaski while completing this crossword puzzle. It serves as a pre-visit activity before taking a field trip to Fort Pulaski. Answers are included.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

Family Ties (Pre Visit)
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Students are encouraged to bring or upload one of their baby pictures and one old family photo to Google Classroom. Teacher will organize them in Google Slides and display the images to the class to identify "who is who' in their class.