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Alaska Public Lands

Russian History Kit

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

This kit brings the story of Russia's colonial history in North America to life. Explore Alaska's Russian influence and cultural exchanges through stories and activities.

Sitka National Historical Park

Soft Gold: The History of Russians in Alaska

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

How and why Russians came to and settled in Alaska is not only important for understanding Alaskan history, but also contains themes necessary for students to understand important historical ideas/concepts like trade, colonialism, and the rights of indigenous peoples. In addition, the efforts of Russian and other non-Alaskan native fur hunters had severe scientific, environmental, and cultural effects on this region and its indigenous peoples.

Flight 93 National Memorial

America Attacked

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

Program Objectives: Students will be able to: 1. Name three terrorist and their role in the September 11, 2001, attack 2. List two events leading up to the attacks on September 11 that had an impact on national security 3. Name the four targets and potential targets selected by the terrorist on September 11

Flight 93 National Memorial

Attack on America

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students visit the Memorial Plaza and learn of the events of September 11, 2001

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Symbols of America

• Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will learn what a symbol is and why symbols are used. They will learn symbols of both America and of South Dakota, as well as the significance behind these symbols.

Weir Farm National Historical Park

Weir Am I? (Grades 1-4)

• Type: Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

A variety of classroom activities that can be done as stand-alone lessons or as a Pre-Visit/ Post-Visit lessons with a visit to Weir Farm.

Yellowstone National Park

Who Am I? (A lesson on animals and their habitats)

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

Each student researches an animal that inhabits Yellowstone National Park and prepares an Animal Profile Card with ten facts about each animal. Students share Profile Cards and attempt to identify the unidentified animals.

Roger Williams National Memorial

A Key Into the Language Of America

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

This lesson plan introduces students to "A Key into the Language of America" and provides a glimpse into the complex relationship Williams had with the Narragansett and gives a first-hand account of 17th-century native culture. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to answer the question: How did Roger Williams’ A Key into the Language of America foster understanding of daily life, work, and relationships between the Native Americans and colonists?

Sitka National Historical Park

Soft Gold: The History of Russians in Alaska/ Middle and High School

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

The Fur trade, as well as the trade of other natural goods and resources, was a significant driver in the European settlement of North America. Between the French and the British, North American became divided over the issue of fur hunting, trapping, and trading- with Native Americans becoming caught in the middle of these European nations. The same is true in Alaska.

“Tracking” Down the Secret Code / North American Animal “Who am I”

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

This lesson will present the diversity of animals found along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, and will help students understand what we can learn about animals from the way they live and move.

Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve

Slavery Systems in America, a classroom lesson

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

Students will use Kingsley Plantation as a setting to explore how slave systems in Florida varied under the Spanish, British, and American rule.

Log Cabins in America: The Finnish Experience

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

Consider how simple, functional cabins, like those built by the Finns in Idaho, became symbols in American politics and folklore.

Sitka National Historical Park

Shifting Sovereignty: How the United States Took Control of Alaska

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

The transfer of Alaska from the hands of Imperial Russia to the United States represents a major turning point in the history of Alaska, the United States, and Russia. Given that the transfer ceremony took place in Sitka, in what was then the Russian city of New Archangel, our park is uniquely suited to educate students about the growth and change of Russian America and the myriad of social, economic, and military changes that occurred in both the Unite States and Russia.

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: A Moravian Settlement in Colonial America

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

Learn why Moravians immigrated to the New World and how the towns they established embodied their religious beliefs.

Canaveral National Seashore

America’s Space Program: Exploring a New Frontier

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

The lesson can be used in American history, social studies, and geography courses in units on the space program, the Cold War and its effects on American society, or interdisciplinary units on science and technology.

Fort Hancock: A Bastion of America's Eastern Seaboard

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

Examine how changing military technology and U.S. budget debates influenced the development of Fort Hancock and the U.S. coastal defense system.

Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site

Working in America: The Allegheny Portage Railroad and the Immigration Movement

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

Working in America" is an interdisciplinary program designed to help students achieve state and national standards in History/Social Studies, Speaking/Listening, Geography, Arts/Humanities, and Technology Education. The working standards vary state to state, but there is substantail agreement on the knowledge and skills students should acquire.

Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park

Brown v. Board of Education: Five Communities That Changed America

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This lesson is based on the National Historic Landmark Nominations, "Robert Russa Moton High School" (with photographs), "Sumner and Monroe Elementary Schools" (with photographs), "Howard High School" (with photographs),and "John Philip Sousa Middle School" (with photographs), as well as the National Register Nomination for "Summerton High School," and the National Historic Landmark Survey theme study entitled Racial Desegregation in Public Education in the United States.

Back Stairs at Brucemore: Life as Servants in Early 20th-Century America

• 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.

Brown v. Board: Five Communities That Changed America (Teaching with Historic Places)

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

Learn about the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down "separate but equal".