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Fossil Butte National Monument

Geology, Relatives, and Time

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

Using a simple three or four generation family tree, students construct a relatives time tree that mimics the major divisions of the geologic time scale, Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic.

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

Lesson 2 - THE SOCIAL CATEGORIES OF RACE

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

One of the main conversations in Talk That Music Talk is around race and music. This lesson is designed to be able to prepare students to participate in the experiences that the activists and musicians share with them. Physical anthropologist Ashley Montague called race “man’s most dangerous myth.”

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.

Eisenhower and Little Rock: A Civil Rights Lesson Plan

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

How did President Dwight Eisenhower balance competing views on race relations and the power of the federal government in handling the Little Rock Crisis in 1957? In this lesson plan, students have the opportunity to analyze Eisenhower's decision making and study primary source letters written to the president during the Little Rock Crisis.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Voices from Cowpens

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

Students work with primary sources related to the Battle of Cowpens.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Material Culture: The Powder Horn

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

To introduce to students material culture related to the Battle of Cowpens.

Wilson's Creek National Battlefield

Bellringer - Culture of Enslavement

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

Short bellringer activity that explores culture and identity in Missouri as it relates to enslavement.

Andersonville National Historic Site

The Wirz Trial: A Mock Trial Lesson Plan Examining the Laws of War

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

Exploring what are the Laws of War, and how does the Wirz Trial relate to them?

Glacier National Park

Climate Mime-it

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

Students interpret and identify ecological concepts related to climate change, through the use of pantomime.

Biodiversity Curriculum: Middle School Newsletter

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

Students are given the opportunity to research a topic of their choice related to threats that exist to the biodiversity of our planet.

Buffalo National River

Water Quality and Buffalo River

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

This lesson plan was designed to help students understand the importance of water quality as it relates to the Buffalo River.

Glacier National Park

Old Growth Forest Mural

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

Students learn about the components of old growth forests and related conservation issues through the creation of a mural.

Fort Scott National Historic Site

Bleeding Kansas

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Travel trunk containing math activities, music activities, and science activities relating to the Bleeding Kansas period.

Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve

Sand Density

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This activity, which uses sand, helps students will understand material density as it relates to water and sedimentary rocks.

Cowpens National Battlefield

The Battle of Cowpens: The Journal of James Collins

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

To help students gain skills in understanding a primary (original) historical source, i.e., a journal as it relates to the Battle of Cowpens.

Celebrate Good Times: Holiday Makeovers

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

Students will create holiday objects using designs relating to the Battles of the Southern Campaign that took place in South Carolina. Seasons and use is at the teacher’s discretion and must be approved.

Andersonville National Historic Site

Scraps from the prison table, at Camp Chase and Johnson's Island.

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

The account of a Confederate officer of captivity at Johnson's Island. Also contains material related to Wirz, including a letter from Louis Schade, one of Wirz's defense attornies.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Glen Haven Post-visit Activity

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This activity leads students to reflect on their experience visiting Glen Haven and connect that experience to current events. They will recognize the mission of the National Park Service and how it relates to them.

Olympic National Park

Dam Removal: A long and difficult process

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

In this activity, students working in four groups will research one of four issues involved in dam removal as it relates to the Elwha River. The students will synthesize their research for presentation to the class.

Bryce Canyon National Park

The Arrowhead: Emblem of the National Park Service

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

Learn about the mission of the National Park Service and how it relates to Bryce Canyon National Park through a guided exploration of the elements represented on the NPS Arrowhead emblem.