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President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

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

Students will organize their thoughts with one of the enclosed graphic organizers, the write an essay on a family member that inspires them. Students will read aloud to a peer and collaboratively work together to improve the writing. During Art period, students will design a colored cover sheet for their essay. Completed essays will be displayed in the hallway.

National Park of American Samoa

Siapo: The Traditional Fabric of the Samoa Islands
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Siapo, is one of the oldest Samoan cultural art forms. For centuries, Siapo has been passed down from generation to generation. Unfortunately, it is becoming a lost art. Siapo is not only a decorative art, it is a symbol of Samoan culture. It is used for clothing, burial shrouds, bed covers, ceremonial garments, and much more.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Traditional Anishinaabek Life Skills and Games
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

For thousands of years the Anishinaabe have celebrated their culture through life skills and games. Play a traditional hands-on game and add to the rich tapestry of life by creating a new one!

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.

National Park of American Samoa

'Ie Toga (Fine Mat): Samoan Traditions of Weaving
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The giving and receiving of ‘ie tōga (fine mats) is an integral part of Fa’a Samoa (Samoan Way). These fine mats are used for special occasions such as weddings, funerals, and the bestowing of chiefly titles. Fine mats have been passed down from generation to generation. These fine mats are as enduring as our Samoan culture.

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.

Enduring Awatovi: Uncovering Hopi Life and Work on the Mesa
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Learn about traditional Hopi culture and farming at Awatovi, a historic pueblo where enduring Hopi traditions and American archeological research reveal much about this important place.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

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

The art of basket weaving as a means to support life and pass down cultural traditions. The Anishinaabe use native trees and resources to craft a useful tool that is still being made today, allowing the tradition to live on.

Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site

Native Games: K - 4th Grades
  • Type: Guest Speakers
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Oral traditions are an important historical source we can use to learn about people of the past. Through native games that have been passed down for generations, students will learn about native cultures and traditions.

Tumacácori National Historical Park

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

Students will investigate how mission life differed from traditional O’odham village life. Did mission children go to school? What did they eat? How does construction of a traditional O’odham home compare to a mission church built from mud? Learn why, when, where and how, as you tour the park’s orchard, garden, and church with a ranger. Students will practice using a traditional mano and metate and learn how to “mud” an O’odham home.

Correspondents, Soldiers and Spies: Women in the U.S.-Mexican War
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In wartime, women traditionally served either on the home front or as nurses and laundresses. During the U.S.-Mexican War, most women played these traditional roles while others aided the military in non-traditional ways. Read primary documents about female soldiers, war correspondents, and spies.

Whiskeytown National Recreation Area

The Wintu of Whiskeytown
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Image of California’s Native American tribe boundaries with the Wintu traditional lands in Northern California labeled with a pin mark.

Gateway Arch National Park

American Indians and the Great Plains (Distance Learning)
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

In this distance learning program, students will compare and contrast their lives with that of traditional Plains Indian tribes during the 1800s. They will learn how tribes such as the Dakota, Lakota, Osage, and others used nature and the lands around them to shape traditional tribal customs, and discuss how westward expansion changed their way of life.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Anishinaabe: Past and Present
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The story of the Sleeping Bear comes from the Anishinaabe people. Learn more about who the Anishinaabe are, as well as some of their traditional lifeways through the various seasons.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Mount Rushmore as Scuplture
  • Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials ... Other Education Materials
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Recreate the Mount Rushmore sculpture with accuracy in mind but using non-traditional sculpture materials. Use drawings and 3D content to get an understanding of the 3-dimensional volumes of the model for accuracy.

Gateway Arch National Park

Indian Lore
  • Type: Other Education Materials
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

At the Museum at the Gateway Arch, scouts will learn about the traditions, practices, and histories of American Indian tribes in a variety of regions, but specifically about the Osage Indians who played a major role in the history of St. Louis.

Everglades National Park

"Designs Of My World" Native People: 4-6 Grade
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will discover the meaning behind the patterns on traditional Miccosukee attire. The students will then design their own patterns based on important elements of their everyday life. Finally, the students write about what their design means to them.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

Cultural Uses of Native Plants
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this field trip through Kīpuka Puaulu students will discover the importance of biodiversity, the traditional Hawaiian uses of native plants, the continued value of these plants into the modern era and an appreciation for the ongoing need to protect Hawai‘i's natural resources.

Denali National Park & Preserve

Climate Change and Dog Sledding in Denali
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This lesson plan explores the impacts of Denali’s changing climate on the northern tradition of dog mushing. Students will have an opportunity to practice reading graphs and analyzing trends in real climate data collected in Denali National Park and Preserve.

Mount Rainier National Park

Flood, Fire, and Fury!
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This activity provides information about how some of the earliest human inhabitants in the Pacific Northwest witnessed geologic activity at Mount Rainier. Native Americans used oral, rather than written, communication to pass down historical information, heritage, and traditions.