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Cowpens National Battlefield

History and Technology

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

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First Ladies National Historic Site

First Ladies and Technology

• Type: Distance Learning ... Field Trips ... Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

How would your life be different without technology? For First Ladies, their job would be a lot harder! In this program, we’ll learn how First Ladies Jackie Kennedy, Michelle Obama, and Eleanor Roosevelt used radio, television, and Social Media in their role and explore the science behind their technologies.

Allegheny Portage Railroad: Developing Transportation Technology

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

Follow 19th-century travelers as they cross the treacherous Allegheny Mountains using an innovative inclined railway.

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

Buffalo Soldiers on the Move! How New Technologies Led to New Opportunities!

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Adult Education

As new modes of transportation were developed; they were adapted for military use. These new modes of transportation created new opportunities for soldiers to step into roles of leadership or be part of new regiments. African Americans took advantage of these new opportunities and combated the negative perception of their leadership abilities in the Army.

Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park

Airplanes of the Future!

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

Students will be able to recognize and create artwork that celebrates technological achievements.

Andrew Johnson National Historic Site

Calling Andrew Johnson using Morse Code

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

The students will analyze the impact of the transatlantic telegraph on worldwide communications. The students will compare and contrast current technology to that of the 19th century.

Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area

Field Studies Programs

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Active, place-based learning about life and earth science, nature, technology, and history with the National Park in your backyard!

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.

Cape Hatteras National Seashore

Pirates of North Carolina

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

This lesson is designed to introduce students to pirates who plagued the coast of North Carolina during the time of colonization, as well as to develop research skills in technology and write a research report. They will use a variety of strategies and writing process elements in the composing of their report. It will allow students to integrate research of social studies/history of the colonial era with technology, reading, and writing.

Gateway National Recreation Area

History of Floyd Bennett Field

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

This guide will help teachers introduce the ways in which technology and time affect an area (i.e. a neighborhood), using Floyd Bennett Field as an example.

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.

Chapter 7 Lesson Plan: The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963

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

A black and white photograph featuring a woman smiling as she looks at a video call with a baby held up to the screen on the other end. The photograph was taken in 1964, this is an example of early video call technology.

Olympic National Park

Overfishing and Fisheries Collapses

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

This activity focuses on the recent collapse of marine fisheries across the world due to increased commercial fishing pressures, a result of increased technology coupled with the changing climate of marine environments related to greenhouse gas pollution.

Run for Your Lives! The Johnstown Flood of 1889

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

Determine how environmental management, technology, and the actions of 19th-century industrialists contributed to a disaster in Pennsylvania that shocked the nation. Also understand why a community spent funds to restore a railway built to save lives.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

A Hidatsa Earthlodge

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

Park Rangers describe the home of the Tribes of the Northern Great Plains from inside of a lifesize replica earthlodge. They also describe the roles and responsibilites of people within the community, trade relations, and effects of trade on technology used by the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara during the 1800s.

Gateway National Recreation Area

Commercial Travel: Then and Now

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

Teachers can use this reference guide to help students evaluate sources and develop a hypothesis about flying as well as its technology and effect on Floyd Bennett Field. A field trip to Floyd Bennett Field would be an extension to the lessons and bring into focus the present.

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.

Thomas Edison National Historical Park

The Invention Factory: Thomas Edison's Laboratories

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

The lesson could be used in teaching units on the industrialization of the United States, the development of science and technology, or social change in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Students will discover how Edison systematized the process of inventing, allowing for the rapid development and production of inventions that improved the lives of millions of people.

Wright Brothers National Memorial

Memorable Memes

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

Who says learning can't be fun? In this virtual-friendly lesson plan, students will explore the geographical and technological factors that led to the first flights of human history while using their creativity to generate a memorable meme about the Wright brothers. Subject(s): Social Studies and Art. Grade(s): 6th-8th.

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park

Exploring the C&O Canal's Cushwa Basin

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will learn about preserving the C&O Canal as a place to learn and explore our history, describe the C&O Canal as an early transportation system including canal operations, lock technology, and life for canal workers, and explain the concepts and effects of various earth processes, including: weathering, erosion, deposition, and flooding.