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Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park

Self-Guided Gallery Tours

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Photos, exhibits and interpretive media are combined to offer a summary of hardships due to racial injustice. Explore interactive exhibits relating to the Civil Rights Movement that followed in the wake of the decision in the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education gallery. Appropriate for ages 12 and up only.

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

Lesson 3 - PHOTO ANALYSIS

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

This lesson introduces students to the Civil Rights Movement’s direct-actions against segregation. In the 1960s, the New Orleans chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality participated in the Freedom Rides throughout the South. Students will examine a collection of photographs that includes four mug shots of C.O.R.E. activists and a Mississippi cotton field.

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park

Conococheague Aqueduct Breach Historical Photos

• Type: Online Galleries
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Online gallery of historical photos from the 1920s breach of the Conococheague Aqueduct at C&O Canal National Historical Park and Captain Myer's boat which was sunk as a result of the canal breach.

Andersonville National Historic Site

The martyrs who, for our country, gave up their lives in the prison pens in Andersonville, Ga

• Type: Primary Sources
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Captain James M. Moore, assistant quartermaster United States army, led the expedition to Andersonville in the summer of 1865 which established the National Cemetery. This booklet includes his official report of the expedition and includes a listing of the dead buried at Andersonville.

Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site

Photo Explorer: The Past comes to Life: 2nd - 3rd grade

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

What can you learn by looking at photos from the past? What will photos from today tell people in the future? By exploring photos from the Grant-Kohrs Ranch NHS photo collection, students will learn about what life was like for the people who lived on the ranch in the past and connect the past to their modern lives.

Andersonville National Historic Site

Contributions relating to the causation and prevention of disease, and to camp diseases; together with a report of the diseases, etc., among the prisoners at Andersonville, Ga

• Type: Primary Sources
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This report by the non-governmental U.S Sanitary Commission is devoted to a series of medical issues pertaining to the Civil War. A third of the book is devoted to Andersonville, written by Confederate surgeon Joseph Jones, M.D. Portions of his essay are derived from the report he attempted to suppress at the end of the war.

Liquid Rock

• Type: Science Labs
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this science lab, students learn about the properties of lava by experimenting with liquids having varying gas contents and viscosities.

Arches National Park

Life Cycles

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

Students explore plant changes by performing a play depicting the life cycle of a wildflower through the seasons. They explore life cycles of frogs and toads, along the way discovering the difference between them. Students learn about insect metamorphosis, focusing on moths and butterflies, and discover the surprising world of insect galls.

Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument

Ellis Island: ARTifact!

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

With just a little love for the arts needed, students get a chance to express their favorite artifacts on paper as they explore the Ellis Island galleries.

Gateway Arch National Park

Celebrating Community

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

In this program, scouts will explore the Museum at the Gateway Arch and its history galleries to discover how communities celebrate and honor special people and events in the past and today.

Wax Museum

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

Photo credit: NPS photo

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

So you want to be an American President

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

This lesson is opened with a discussion, followed by the reading of Judith St. George and David Small's book, "So you want to be President", then progress into assignments, presentations, gallery walk and awards as applicable to the teacher.

Olympic National Park

Overfishing and Fisheries Collapses

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

This activity focuses on the recent collapse of marine fisheries across the world due to increased commercial fishing pressures, a result of increased technology coupled with the changing climate of marine environments related to greenhouse gas pollution.

Travel Back in Time

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

Students will work to calculate time, distance, gas mileage from home to three important Southern Campaign of the American Revolution: Cowpens National Battlefield, Kings Mountain National Military Park, and Ninety Six National Historic Site.

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Virtual Field Trip

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

Photo/Craig Blacklock

Devils Postpile National Monument

Exploring Climate Science (Watershed)

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

Rainbow Falls. NPS Photo

Gateway Arch National Park

General Museum Tour at the Gateway Arch

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

The general tour of the museum at the Gateway Arch introduces students to the larger themes of westward expansion and the growth of the United States. Students work with a park ranger who guides them through selected galleries which tell the story of westward expansion and the building of the Gateway Arch.

Gateway Arch National Park

St. Louis From the Beginning

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

In 1764, French fur traders founded St. Louis on the grounds that are now Gateway Arch National Park. In this program, students visit the "Colonial St. Louis" gallery in the museum and learn about the ways St. Louis became a prosperous river town and trading post.

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

A Kid's Life in Atlanta Virtual Program

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this virtual program, students will be able to learn about the life of Carrie Berry, a 10 year old girl who lived during the Union siege and occupation of Atlanta, GA in 1864. Through her diary as a primary source and interaction with a park ranger, students will have opportunities to compare and contrast their own experiences with Carries.

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