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- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn about the Dayton National Cemetery and the soldiers buried there.
Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site
Skills and Survival
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
By 1900, the cowboy’s world was changing. Gone were the days of trailing cattle as homesteaders claimed the vast public lands. Cowboys were confined to fenced-in ranches, where they were expected to do additional tasks to keep the ranch going. This lesson invites students to explore how cowboys used Grant-Kohrs Ranch’s repair shop to learn new skills and how learning helped them overcome change.
Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site
Replace or Repurpose?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The ability to work metal was a critical skill in the late 1800s American West. Local blacksmiths provided the metal tools and objects people used every day. But this skill became more important among cowboys during the Great Depression of the 1930s. As ranches struggled to earn money to survive, metal’s ability to be repaired and reshaped into new tools gained importance. This lesson invites students to step into the minds of cowboys living during the Great Depression and repurposing items.
Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site
Who Was a Blacksmith?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The blacksmith was an essential member of a 19th century community. Before there were factories to make iron tools and objects, the blacksmith filled this role. To become a blacksmith involved years as an apprentice and hard work learning the skills needed to build, fix or repair things made from iron. Blacksmiths worked on the metal rims for wheels on wagons, tools, and other items used in homes or on equipment. After 1900, the profession of blacksmithing declined as factories filled this need.
Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site
Reading for Rustlers
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
During the Open Range Cattle Era of the late 1800s, one of the most valued cowboy skills involved reading. Cattle brands, or hot irons used to mark cattle ownership, were the only way to tell whose cattle belonged to who on the open range. In this lesson, students will learn how to “read” the mysterious symbols used on cattle brands. They will also take on the role of cowboys and use their brand reading skills to find cattle thieves, called rustlers.
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.
William Howard Taft National Historic Site
The Measure of a Man or a Woman
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson will help students to re-live the early years of William Howard Taft and his family as well as, explore the Taft family's values practiced in their household.
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
Economy and Trade: Pre 1845
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In Economy and Trade: Pre 1845, students will learn about trade relations between tribes prior to European contact and how their experience prepared them for success in dealing with explorers and traders after European contact by re-enacting trading as it was practiced at Knife River Villages.
- 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.
Gateway Arch National Park
Law Merit Badge
- Type: Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Does protecting the law involve bravery? Does telling the truth equal courage? Investigate the judicial system and its important role in our society. Scouts re-enact a historic trial and debate contemporary issues. An attorney and a National Park Service Law Enforcement Ranger will discuss their roles and responsibilities in society.
Mammoth Cave National Park
Shapes Of The Season
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This lesson plan is from "Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3", which comprises ten lessons. This is lesson 4 of that set. Students collect and classify leaves. This art project then re-creates their favorite leaf shape in the colors of fall - ready to hang in the window as a sun-catcher.
Acadia National Park
Virtual: Grades 9-12: Career Day
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Interview a ranger about a variety of National Park Service careers. Explore career options in science, law enforcement, search & rescue, teaching, graphics editing, management, accounting, history, cultural lands management, motor vehicle repair, heavy equipment operation, several trades, public policy, and more! Programs are tailored to each school’s needs. (45 minutes)
Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
Chemistry of the Blacksmith's Forge
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students research four questions and present their findings to each other. One class is needed for the research and one to two classes are needed for the presentations. Students can do additional research as homework, so allow a couple days between the initial research and presentations.
Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
Lessons Learned In West Branch
- Type: Field Trips ... Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
How did Herbert Hoover’s early years in 19th century West Branch influence his character? Which character traits did he learn that made him a leader? Where do we get our own skills for success? A visit to historic buildings from President Hoover's childhood helps answer these questions.
Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
From Iowa To The World
- Type: Field Trips ... Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
How did daily life of a rural community in the 1870s and 1880s compare to our own daily lives? Did events of Herbert Hoover's childhood motivate his career in public service? What did Herbert Hoover do to be recognized as a good citizen of the world? A visit to historic buildings from President Hoover's childhood helps answer these questions.
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
So You Wanna Be a Paleobotanist?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will re-create scientific studies done by paleobotanists analyzing data from fossil plants found at Florissant Fossil Beds to draw conclusions about the paleoclimate 34 million years ago. In this activity, students will identify fossil plant species by their leaves, review data on the growing conditions of their nearest modern plant relatives, and compare as many species as possible to determine the range of temperature and precipitation that the fossil plant community can live in.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
NPS Employee talking to a group of children in Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. She wears the 1962 women's uniform with badge and pill box hat. She is not wearing the uniform coat. NPS History Collection photo by M. Woodbridge Williams.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Understand the "servant" experience in early 20th-century America, as well as the pros and cons for women working in factories versus domestic service.