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- Type: Student Activities ... Online Galleries ... Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
In this four-part video series, Park Ranger Nick Sacco examines the history of voting rights in the United States. The first three videos focus on changes, progressions, and setbacks in voting rights during the 19th Century, while the fourth video explores debates over voting rights and fair elections in the present.
President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site
Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of The United States
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Introduce the three branches of government. Explain, in depth about the Executive branch and the duties of the President. Ask students if they know who was the 42nd President. Create a KWL chart for requirements to become President of the United States. Research the requirements. Create an election poster as if you are competing for the Presidency, demonstrating that they have the proper requirements to run for office.
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.
Andersonville National Historic Site
Narrative of privations and sufferings of United States officers and soldiers while prisoners of war in the hands of the Rebel authorities
- Type: Primary Sources
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This report, published by the non-governmental United States Sanitary Commission provides multiple accounts of the treatment of Union prisoners of war in Confederate military prisons.
Niobrara National Scenic River
Ecology Unit
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Six terrestrial ecosystems combine with the riparian and aquatic ecosystems of the Niobrara to create a mix of plants and animals that exist together like nowhere else. This unit focuses on the ecology and biodiversity of the Niobrara River Valley. It contains a field experience component in addition to pre and post experience classroom work.
Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park
Brown Curriculum Unit
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The Brown Foundation and the National Park Service worked closely to produce this curriculum to provide teachers the resources needed to teach concepts of fairness and social democracy.The Brown curriculum kit includes a Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site handbook; a DVD with two short videos titled Reading, Writing and Resistance and Dialog; and a CD-ROM entitled Brown v. Board of Education: Struggle for Equality with a teacher's guide.
Haleakalā National Park
Habitat Unit Field Trip
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
A habitat or home is not only important to people but plants and animals need them to survive. A habitat of native trees like ʻōhiʻa, amaʻu ferns, and the shrub plant kūpaoa provide food, water, space, and shelter for many native species.
Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park
Web Quest Curriculum Unit
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
A cooperative activity where students identify each of the five cases included in the Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision, explore how the NAACP was involved, and how explore the significance of the "separate but equal" clause.
Haleakalā National Park
Geology Unit Field Trip
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Pāhoehoe lava rock is one of many rock formations made by volcanoes. Rocks can show us all kinds of information like types of volcanoes and kinds of lava flowed, where lava flowed and whether lava cooled down fast or slow. Geology rocks!
Haleakalā National Park
Adaptations Unit Field Trip
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Many of Haleakalā’s forest birds have evolved and adapted over time with specific niches in their habitat. Explore how these adaptations are important to the health and stability of native habitats. Learn about the threats to these rare and endemic forest birds and what Haleakalā National Park is doing to protect them from extinction.
Haleakalā National Park
Biodiversity Unit Field Trip
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Biodiversity is critical to the health of native habitats and species in Haleakalā National Park. Many plants on the slopes of Haleakalā are endemic and evolved to live in these unique habitats. Explore these habitats and learn why biodiversity is important and how Haleakalā National Park protects these rare, endemic, and endangered species.
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
TX Tortoise Coloring Page
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Simple, fun coloring page activity.
White Sands National Park
Leapin' Lizards Coloring Sheet
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Through many years of changing habitats and adapting to their surroundings, most of our lizards are white in coloration. Use this coloring sheet to invent your own lizard with colors that would help it hide in your choice of environment!
Death Valley National Park
Mining Unit: Discovering a Stamp Mill
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson is part of a cross-curricular mining unit focused on the impacts of miners on the Death Valley community and environment. This is the introductory lesson which provides students journal writing opportunities to explore their meaning of discovery. Students will watch a short online video on mining in Death Valley and actively sequence the steps of a typical stamp mill.
Cape Lookout National Seashore
Horses and Humans: Shackleford Horses Unit
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This science & math unit features the wild horses of Shackleford Banks. See attached complete unit.
Death Valley National Park
Mining Unit: It's Mining Time
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson is part of a cross-curricular mining unit focused on the impacts of miners on the Death Valley community and environment. This is the third lesson in the unit which provides students opportunities to explore the true meaning of a boom and bust mining operation. Students will practice basic math operations while examining a Death Valley mining timeline.
Death Valley National Park
Mining Unit: Death Valley Characters
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson is part of a cross-curricular mining unit focused on the impacts of miners on the Death Valley community and environment. This is lesson provides students an opportunity to explore the individuals who moved to the Death Valley area for mining. Students will read an online article and role play characters representing different jobs in the mining camps.
- Type: Other Education Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Homesteaders, Immigrants & American Indians Curriculum Unit.
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
LESSON 1 - SAN MALÓ AND INTRODUCTION TO UNIT
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This lesson is an introduction to the book Le Ker Creole. Students will learn about the language of Kréyol, and about Creole culture and music, with a focus on the folk hero Juan San Maló. They will hear a song in Kréyol about San Maló and examine the lyrics to become familiar with the historic figure upon which the folk hero is based.
Cape Lookout National Seashore
Horse Genetics and Evolution: Shackleford Horses Unit
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson plan will cover 6th-8th grade genetics and evolution relating everything back to the horses on Shackleford Banks, NC. The students will be able to construct arguments based on evidence that organisms and landforms change over time and recognize patterns of heredity from Punnett Squares and Pedigree Analysis.