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Glacier National Park

Senses Songs

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

Students will sign songs to help them understand that humans have 5 senses which help them learn about the world around them.

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

So You Wanna Be a Paleontologist?

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

Students will become familiarized with fossils that have been uncovered in Florissant Fossil Beds from the Eocene and Quaternary. They will select a certain extinct species and make a sketch on a Popsicle stick canvas. After shuffling their Popsicle stick fossil, they will then hide the sticks around a room and have someone else find and "excavate" the Popsicle stick fossil and attempt to put it back together. Best done with a partner to exchange fossils to find and put together.

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.

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

Lesson 1 - JOURNALING WITH SONGS OF FREEDOM

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

This lesson plan is designed to accompany the two disc cd set FREEDOM IS COMING: SONGS OF FREEDOM, RESISTANCE, AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. The set may be obtained from the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, 916 N. Peters Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70116, www.nps.gov/jazz

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

So you want to be an American President

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

This lesson is opened with a discussion, followed by the reading of Judith St. George and David Small's book, "So you want to be President", then progress into assignments, presentations, gallery walk and awards as applicable to the teacher.

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park

Kentucky Treasures: Exploring Symbols, Songs, and Traditions

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

Explore some of the symbolic features of Kentucky through songs and traditions. Meets Kentucky 1st grade social studies standards. This lesson was created by Kentucky teachers as a part of the History and Science Explore Project.

Everglades National Park

"What's So Special?" Environment: 4-6 Grade

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

Students will draw a favorite plant, animal, or activity common to the Everglades environment and explain, in writing, the reason they chose it. This will help students recognize and identify one valuable aspect of a national park’s environment, and draw conclusions as to why they value that aspect of the environment.

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

Songs with Social Influence (Grades 9-12) Carl Sandburg Home NHS

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

Students will look at how the events in time influence the writers and musicians then and now. The students will look at how the creations of these artists then influence society.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Patriotic Music

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

How are songs and music influenced by our country's history?

I Know That Tune! Folk Music, Traditions, Opinions, & Historical Facts

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

Learn how public opinion influences the way historic events are remembered via music. Study several historic songs and why and how they changed over time. Rewrite a modern song to reflect recent history.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

Hope Inspired Community

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

Read aloud "So You Want To Be President", discuss as a group then create a timeline

Voyageurs National Park

Beaver Lodge Family

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

Why is the beaver population so resilient? Students can simulate the life of a beaver in the beaver lodge!

Frederick Douglass National Historic Site

Frederick Douglass and the Power of Literacy

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

This 20-30 minute program works with students to discover why reading was so powerful for Douglass as a slave and then as an abolitionist.

Independence National Historical Park

The Liberty Bell as a Modern Symbol, grades 3-5

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

Students will understand that the Liberty Bell has meant many things to many people, and continues to do so today.

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

LESSON 8: SHANGO AND DANSE CODAN

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

This lesson uses two songs that will emphasize the African influences on Zydeco music and the Kréyol language. The song SHANGO references an African spirit/diety that became important in the Creole and Black American community in Louisiana, especially among those who practiced the syncretic religious faith of Vodou, often popularly referred to as Voodoo.

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

LESSON 6 - LEARNING KRÉYOL (CREOLE) THROUGH SAN MALÓ

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

Students will hear the song SAN MALÓ, sung by Kréyol speaker Sunpie Barnes. Sunpie has studied both Louisiana and Haitian Kréyol for over thirty years, so the accent is authentic. Students will review phrases learned in the previous HEY NOM lesson, and then use the lyrics of SAN MALÓ to learn additional phrases.

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site

Facing Adversity

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

This is a lesson plan exploring how Theodore Roosevelt, despite childhood asthma and sickness grew up to influence so many others.

Frederick Douglass National Historic Site

Taking a Stand Against Slavery: Stories from Frederick Douglass. Grade 4

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

This lesson, designed for 4th graders, explores the life and accomplishments of Frederick Douglass, and in doing so, emphasizes the importance of preserving historic and cultural sites.

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

National Park Legacy - Wildlife in Cities Grades K - 2

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

Coexisting with wildlife requires that actions be taken to reduce conflicts and minimize impacts from human activity so that a healthy appreciation of wildlife can be fostered. Specifically addressed in this lesson are efforts SMMNRA is making to encourage residents to clean up unintentional food resources such as pet food, and secure trash cans so that unwanted wildlife do not seek food on personal property.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Abraham Lincoln: Savior of the Union

• Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Born in a small cabin, he rose to the White House. Follow Abraham Lincoln on his adventure to learn and save the nation he so cared about.