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Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park
Virtual Program: Let's Learn About Seeds
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This virtual program is geared for grade levels Kindergarten - 2nd Grade and will be delivered virtually by the Education Director at the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. As a result of this lesson plan, students will learn about what seeds are, describe parts of a seed, and explain the conditions needed for growth. Students will learn the connection of seeds to and the C&O Canal National Historical Park.
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Learn at the Ledges
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Hike the Ledges and discover how geologic processes have shaped the land. Look for evidence of how erosion and deposition have changed the land, examine how weathering occurs and explore the rocks that make up the Ledges.
Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone Distance Learning
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Schedule a live virtual visit with a Yellowstone park ranger! Teachers can request a K-12 distance learning program on a wide variety of Yellowstone topics.
Homestead National Historical Park
Learning about the Homestead Act
- Type: Primary Sources
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In "Learning about the Homestead Act," students utilize a written document analysis worksheet to practice the skill of analyzing primary sources (The Homestead Act).
Gateway Arch National Park
Heading West? (Distance Learning)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This distance learning program introduces k-2 students to some of the challenges and choices early pioneers faced while traveling west across prairies, rivers, and mountains from St. Louis to Oregon and California.
Gateway Arch National Park
Lewis and Clark (Distance Learning)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students in this distance learning program will learn about the Corps of Discovery's expedition to the Pacific Coast from St. Louis, a round trip that took three years to complete between 1803 and 1806. They will also learn about the lives of Lewis and Clark and the people they interacted with during the expedition.
Assateague Island National Seashore
Learning from Spanish Coins
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson, students learn about 18th-century Spanish currency. Teachers can use the lesson plan to help their students investigate how archeologists use artifacts like coins to come up with a relative date for an archeological site. Students will understand how archeologists use newer technologies, such as 3D modeling and Virtual Reality, in order to analyze and interpret artifacts and objects.
Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
Lessons Learned In West Branch
- Type: Field Trips ... Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
How did Herbert Hoover’s early years in 19th century West Branch influence his character? Which character traits did he learn that made him a leader? Where do we get our own skills for success? A visit to historic buildings from President Hoover's childhood helps answer these questions.
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
Distance Learning: A Beneficial Fire
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This distance learning opportunity explores prescribed fires. Ranger will walk students through the benefits of a prescribed fire, particularly within the prairie restoration process. Students will learn about equipment, personal protective equipment, and possible NPS careers in wildland fire management.
Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail
War of 1812 Learning Module
- Type: Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This reference packet for teachers includes worksheet templates for independent and guided activities utilizing a cross-curricular approach to learning. Activities can be modified to meet the needs of your group. Includes guided primary source research, graphing, writing and literacy activities.
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park
Let's Learn About Seeds
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
"Let's Learn About Seeds" introduces students to seeds, the four plant growth stages, and the different conditions needed for growth. This is a great post-Virtual Field Trip lesson plan that helps reinforce topics discussed during the virtual program or can be done as a standalone lesson plan. Please email cocanaleducation@nps.gov about scheduling a Virtual Field Trip with the C&O Canal National Historical Park.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Illustrate Your Service Learning Project
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this activity, students compare their service site before and after completing their project using photos and art to better understand the positive impacts their work had on local wildlife and environment.
Cowpens National Battlefield
Park Rangers Protect, Learn, and Explore
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
At Cowpens National Battlefield, the teacher reads information about national parks and the job of park rangers. Students will learn how the actions of humans can affect the survival of plants and animals, and will also learn how they can participate in the Junior Ranger and WebRanger programs!
Badlands National Park
Bison Banquet - Distance Learning Program
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Badlands National Park is home to a population of approximately 800 bison. Learn about the bison's natural and cultural history as you explore the many traditional Native American uses of the bison. Students will see bison parts and brainstorm possible uses for these items. (45 minutes)
Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
Looming and Learning: Threading the Past and Present
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
How many clothes do you own? Are any of them handmade? Why don't people tend to hand make their clothing at home anymore? This lesson will investigate our complicated relationship with something as simple as thread. Old Slater Mill was the first successful water-powered cotton spinning mill in North America. This place transformed the relationship US citizens had with their clothing. This hands-on activity investigates how our relationship with clothing has changed over the past 230 years.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Democracy Run Wild: Distance Learning Program
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
During Bleeding Kansas, conflicts at the ballot box, in the courts, and in the halls of government divided a town, a territory and an entire nation as people from all sides of the spectrum joined in a struggle for freedom in Kansas Territory.
Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park
Learning the Land and The Passaic River & Water Power
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
A two-part environmental science program that invites students to learn about the formation of the Paterson Great Falls and how they have been used to create power.
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.
Gateway Arch National Park
St. Louis From the Beginning (Distance Learning)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Learn about the French fur traders who founded the city of St. Louis in 1764, including the lives of merchants Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau. Students will also learn about the rise of St. Louis as a commercial trading post along the Mississippi River.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
What is the Archaeological Resources Protection Act? How do you read a law? Using this lesson plan, students will learn about ARPA and how to read a federal law.