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Showing 2,471 results for veteran care in the U.S. ...
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In 1847, Massachusetts Senator Edward Keyes called to end the U.S.-Mexican War. Keyes claimed it was an unjust war with a “darker shadow . . . the extension of slavery.”
Independence National Historical Park
Declaration of Independence OR U.S. Constitution?
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Use this activity in the classroom or in the park to help your students understand the differences between the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to identify the major rock formation types in various national parks.
Fort Donelson National Battlefield
The UGRR and U.S. Soldier at Fort Donelson
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Contents of the UGRR/U.S. Soldier traveling trunk
Gettysburg National Military Park
Field Hospital: Caring for the Wounded
- Type: Field Trips ... Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The Battle of Gettysburg is well known for its stories of courage and bravery on the battlefield. Lesser known is the story of the medical personnel, Union and Confederate, who had by 1863 greatly improved their bases of knowledge and organization to save lives and improve living conditions for the sick and wounded of the war. This program focuses on what happened to the sick and wounded Civil War soldiers before, during, and especially after battles.
Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical Park
Caring For Our Forests - A Legacy of Stewardship
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This is a Global Studies and English unit that is ideally designed as part of a forest-focused, across the curriculum unit, which would complement work being done in the subject specific areas of math, science, and physical education of a typical middle school in Vermont. This unit could also stand on its own in terms of a place-based unit using forests as its focal point
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
What They Wore: U.S.-Mexican War Traveling Trunks
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Traveling trunks allow your students to "try on" history.
- 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.
Timpanogos Cave National Monument
Communities Care in National Parks! Grades 2 and 3
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Explore communities through National Parks! Students will learn the types of communities that use National Parks and compare them to their own. We will also discuss the role of community members and how we work to solve problems in our National Parks.
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will learn of the significance of items left in tribute at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Learn where your food comes from by exploring historic Oxon Hill Farm. This Field Trip is geared to Pre-K through 3rd grade but is also available for 4th grade and up.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn about the Dayton National Cemetery and the soldiers buried there.
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students examine the concepts of the designing of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson is based on the National Register of Historic Places documentation for “The Stockade” and “Florence National Cemetery,” part of the “Civil War Era National Cemeteries MPS;" and on archival and archeological research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Cemetery Administration (NCA), conducted by archeologists with MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Inc. (MACTEC).
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Mālama means to care for. This activity helps us to remember ways we can care for the environment on our special island.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
1963 Plymouth car advertisement.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Brigadier General Charles Young: The Responsible Leader!
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Charles Young was born enslaved and became the first African American to attain the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army. Young called several places home during three distinct stages of his life: when he was a youth, a junior officer, and a seasoned veteran. Discover what changed in his life during these five eras of Charles Young’s life from where he called home and what he was responsible for.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Brigadier General Charles Young: The Responsible Leader!
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Charles Young was born enslaved and became the first African American to attain the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army. Young called several places home during three distinct stages of his life: when he was a youth, a junior officer, and a seasoned veteran. Discover what changed in his life during these five eras of Charles Young’s life from where he called home and what he was responsible for.
- 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.
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
We Want You!
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
At the start of the U.S.-Mexican War, both Mexican and U.S. citizens mistrusted a standing army. In this activity, students discuss reasons for joining an army. Next, they discuss the differences between a regular army and a militia of volunteers. Then they review and discuss U.S. and Mexican perspectives on regular and volunteer soldiers.