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Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park

History and Memory: Contrasting the Civil War South in Film and Primary Documents
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

How do different forms of media impact our understanding of slavery and the Civil War?

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

The French and Indian War 1754-1763: Primary Documents and Artifacts - Unit 8
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This unit includes one lesson plan: “Working with Primary Documents and Artifacts." Students read about one of 14 primary documents or artifacts associated with the French and Indian War, and then analyze the document or artifact.

Acadia National Park

Virtual: What Do Rangers Do?
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Investigate various jobs that rangers do in National Parks. Learn about the variety of jobs it takes to keep Acadia running! What Do Rangers Do? is the prerequisite for completing the Junior Ranger Program and earning a Jr Ranger badge. Request your copy of our Jr. Ranger Book ahead of time, so you can choose the pages you want your students to work on. Discuss program conclusion with your ranger and whether you want a badge ceremony as part of the conclusion. (45 minutes)

Andersonville National Historic Site

Document Based Questions: Conditions at Andersonville
  • Type: Primary Sources
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Andersonville artwork

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Document-Based Inquiry: Carve the Mountain and They Will Come
  • Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This lesson plan will allow students to have an interactive experience with the history of Mount Rushmore without being physically present at the memorial. With historical images, newspaper articles, letters, telegrams and maps, students will dive into the history of Mount Rushmore, explore the motivating factors for creating a large-scale sculpture in the Black Hills, and consider how choices of South Dakotans in the past continue to impact the lives of South Dakotans today.

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

What Do Rangers Do? Program Planner
  • Type: Other Education Materials
  • 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.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Documenting the Uncharted Northwest
  • 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.

Primary vs. Secondary Sources in Archeology
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

How do primary and secondary sources help archeologists learn about the past? Students will: 1) Learn the differences between primary and secondary sources and 2) Glean information from examples of different sources.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Becoming George Washington: Unit 5: Analyzing Documents
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This lesson plan helps students understand how to analyze primary source materials using four writings from Washington’s life and a portrait of Washington.

Rocky Mountain National Park

What Rangers Do
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Have you ever wondered what types of rangers it takes to protect the 429 National Park Service sites across the country? Join an education ranger as they explore these roles throughout the park service and see examples of these rangers at Rocky!

Acadia National Park

Do It Yourself Binoculars
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Make your own binoculars at home!

Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park

How do plants work?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Standard: S1L1 Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the basic needs of plants and animals

What do you MEME?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will pull pictures from the internet and create memes depicting events, characters, and battles of the Southern Campaign.

Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park

Do Artifacts Tell Stories?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

How do the artifacts tell the stories of the soldiers and camp women who served in the Civil War? In this lesson, students: Compare and contrast what Civil War soldiers used during their free time and what you use today Learn how artifacts tell us about the life of a Civil War soldier

Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial

What Would YOU Do?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Abraham Lincoln learned many lessons on responsibility while growing up in Indiana. This lesson allows the teacher and students to share and talk about responsible actions.

What Would You Do?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Abraham Lincoln learned many lessons on responsibility while growing up in Indiana. This lesson allows the teacher and students to share and talk about responsible actions.

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

Learning about Mill Workers through Primary Sources
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this lesson, students will examine primary resource documents of mill workers at the Lonsdale Company in 1942. Though these are injury reports, students can get a glimpse into who was working at the mills and what types of jobs they had. Students will compare primary sources to determine similarities and differences among this sample of mill workers.

Whitman Mission National Historic Site

Primarily Me: Primary Sources from Whitman Mission
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Primarily Me is a lesson for older elementary students to explore the various primary sources from Whitman Mission NHS and learn about how primary sources help us learn about the events of the past and how they can be used in different ways.

Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail

TEACHING WITH PRIMARY SOURCES—MTSU, Lesson Plan: The Trail of Tears
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will understand the background of the Trail of Tears, the different views of the Indian Removal Act, and how the Trail of Tears affected the American Indians who participated in it.