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- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The Gullah Geechee are African Americans with ancestral roots in the Southeastern U.S., from southeastern North Carolina all the way down to northeastern Florida. Their ancestors, taken from West and Central Africa between the early 1600s and the 1850s, were forced into labor due to their skills and strength. To preserve their heritage, they created the Gullah Geechee language by blending native African languages with English.
Cowpens National Battlefield
Lifestyle: Revolutionary War Era Clothing
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
To provide the opportunity for students to identify clothing of the Revolutionary War Era in comparison with modern clothing.
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site
Morale Art of the Cold War Era
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Morale art played a huge role in affecting the patriotism and pride in the workplace for our servicemen and women. Examine pictures of blast door art and other murals, read about the daily duty of the missileers, and discuss the reason for creating this artwork. Then create your own!
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
The Sound of Buffalo Soldiers! A Musical Bridge to Communities
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Adult Education
How has music influenced your connection to a community? Throughout the history of the United States military, music has been part of the sound experience of soldiers. For the Buffalo Soldiers, music also served as a tool to build a connection to the communities they served.
Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site
Citizenship and Voting During the Civil War Era
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
During Ulysses S. Grant's lifetime, the United States transitioned from a country where only a small number of wealthy white elites had full citizenship and voting rights to one in which men and women, white and black, were guaranteed citizenship and all men could vote. "Citizenship and Voting during the Civil War Era" examines these dramatic changes to America's political institutions.
George Washington Carver National Monument
George Washington Carver - Struggle for Education Distance Learning Program
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson focuses on numerous obstacles George Washington Carver faced and overcame in order to earn his education and how he became a role model of perseverance and success. Following this program, students will list three obstacles to education that George Washington Carver faced, two states where he lived while going to school, and one helpful character trait he possessed.
George Washington Carver National Monument
Overcoming Obstacles: George Washington Carver’s Pathway to Education
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
At about 10-12 years of age, George Washington Carver left Diamond, Missouri to pursue an education. This photo was taken around the time he set out on his own.
Booker T Washington National Monument
What is Freedom?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The program is designed to compare and contrast Booker T. Washington and other prominent figures in their views of and experiences with freedom. The program also includes an opportunity for further examination of this topic over multiple periods of United States history.
Glacier National Park
It Was a Very Good Year
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students learn to reconstruct history through the careful examination of tree-rings, and then construct a tree-ring representation of their own life history.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Bleeding Kansas - Sparks of War
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The Bleeding Kansas era was a chaotic era of Fort Scott history. Passions flared on all sides of the political spectrum.
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
Guided Tour of HBC Fort Vancouver
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The classic Fort Vancouver Field Trip experience! Classes, teamed up with a guide, participate in an interactive walking tour inside the reconstructed HBC Fort Vancouver.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Unearth the remains of colonial America's first fully integrated ironworks, and consider what reconstruction of the site reveals about daily life for some early European settlers.
Cowpens National Battlefield
Native American Connections
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Who were the Catawba and Cherokee peoples in the Revolutionary Era Carolinas?
Kenai Fjords National Park
The Scientific Method
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will conduct a basic soil science experiment and re-familiarize themselves with the scientific method.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Today the cotton gin is quiet. The commissary, where sharecroppers could buy supplies, looks as if someone just closed and locked the door. Hoes, oxen yoke, and ploughs rust in the blacksmith's shop. What froze this place in time? What clues tell the history of this place? Let's begin the story.
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
Plate Tectonics
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will learn to identify the seven continents of Earth. They will also create their own supercontinent by using continental shape and fossil evidence to fit the continent cutout pieces like a puzzle. They will then be shown maps of reconstructed Pangea and try to recreate it using their cutout pieces.
Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site
Ulysses S. Grant and Leadership
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This field trip teaches students about Ulysses S. Grant's life in St. Louis and the leadership qualities he developed while working as a farmer at White Haven. Students will also learn about slavery, the Civil War, and Grant's presidency during Reconstruction.
Olympic National Park
Salmon Nutrient Cycling
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This activity helps students learn how marine-derived nutrients from salmon carcasses find their way into terrestrial environments and how scientists can track these marine-derived nutrients to analyze their importance to ecosystems today, as well as reconstructing past ecosystem processes.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this lesson, students will learn about the campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment by the National Woman's Party beginning in 1923. They will evaluate a political cartoon to identify different perspectives on the ERA. Students will then respond to the argument presented in the cartoon. Finally, they will predict the possible effect of the ERA on society today.
Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site
Cattle Drives and Roundups
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Open Range Cattle Era helped to shape life in the American West during the late 19th century, lasting from about 1866-1900. Ranching activities are defined by the seasons of the year and the life cycles of the livestock. For cattle ranchers in the Open Range Cattle Era, two practices became routine for cowboys, the cattle drive and the roundup. In this lesson, students will learn about cattle drives and roundups, what they were and their importance to the Open Range Cattle Era.