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Showing 154 results for southern arizona ...
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
What was life and work like for enslaved people on Southern plantations?
George Washington Carver - The Artist: A Colorful South
The South Fork Dam: A Guided Walk through the Ruins
History and Memory: Contrasting the Civil War South in Film and Primary Documents
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
How do different forms of media impact our understanding of slavery and the Civil War?
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.
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.
Fighting for Voting Rights at Grand Canyon and Across Arizona
So you want to be an American President
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Students will be prompted to plan a field trip of the southern campaign. They will need to select four locations and research the who, what, when and where. They will need to plan some of the logistics like transportation and activities. Finally they will use the distance formula to estimate the distance of their trip.
Southern Paiute Cultural History Curriculum Guide
- Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The purpose of the Southern Paiute Cultural History supplemental curriculum lessons is to provide opportunities for students to learn about the region’s cultural history. Studying about past cultures and traditions provide a context for deeper understanding that links today’s Southern Paiute people with their rich cultural legacy. Archeology helps to provide a better understanding of these connections.
"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.
Consider the Source: Migration to the Mountains: From the Lowcountry of Charleston, South Carolina to the highlands of Flat Rock, North Carolina. (Grades 6-8) Lesson 2 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This is the second of three lessons intended to exercise critical thinking, historical dialogue, and empathic skills. This lesson enables middle school students to develop an understanding of how geography, disease, migration, and racism influence societal changes in Western North Carolina. Students will use secondary and primary sources to understand causes and effects in antebellum western North Carolina society over time.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn about the Hoover Dam, located where the Colorado River forms the boundary between the states of Nevada and Arizona,
Siege Tower: What would you do?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Objectives At the end of this activity, the student will be able to: - summarize the course of the American Revolution in South Carolina. - Compare the perspectives of South Carolinians during the American Revolution. - demonstrate an understanding of conflict between the American colonies and England.
Exploring the Anza Trail
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Welcome to Exploring the Anza Trail, an interdisciplinary program specifically designed for 3rd and 4th grade students. Through a series of hands-on activities, writing and drawing assignments, and a dramatic 50-minute presentation, students put themselves in the shoes of a colonist on the Anza Trail to explore the universal concepts of overcoming obstacles, using resources, and seeking a better life.
Decision Points: Gettysburg 1863
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Abraham and Elizabeth Bryan and their children, who resided in this house on Cemetery Ridge south of Gettysburg, fled their home prior to the battle. As African Americans living in southern Pennsylvania, they faced the real risk of being kidnapped by Confederate soldiers and taken south to be sold into slavery. Upon returning to their home, they discovered tremendous devastation to their property as a result of the battle.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The students will review articles and internet sites pulling important information pertaining to the Southern Campaign, concentrating on the areas in South Carolina. They will then create a set of trading cards to be used as a class set.
A Trip Down the Cumberland Trail
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade