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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.
Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
The War of 1812 - Baltimore's Role
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will read primary and secondary source documents to identify the actions of the citizens in the defense of Baltimore during the War of 1812.
Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail
Defense of a Nation: War of 1812 Teacher's Guide
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
A Teacher's Guide to the War of 1812.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson offers students the opportunity to explore different perspectives on the decision to declare war in 1812, consider the issues at hand, and formulate their own position on what they have learned.
Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail
Defense of a Nation: Maryland's Role in the War of 1812 - A Teacher's Guide
- Type: Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Information provided in this guide will help make teaching this important history easy and accessible. The guide presents the major players in the war, its major battles, direct quotes from eyewitnesses, and information on additional resources.
Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail
Saving History: The White House, Dolley Madison and the War of 1812
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The events leading up to the burning of the White House during the War of 1812 have been well chronicled. Among the most celebrated events of the war was the saving of George Washington’s portrait by Dolley Madison before the White House was torched. Thanks to a letter written by Mrs. Madison prior to her escape this event is recounted. Recently, however, an expert concluded that perhaps the write the letter was written later - perhaps 20 years later. From the White House Historical Associati
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The War of 1812, which pitted the United States, Great Britain and their allies against each over the course of three years, turned into an opportunity for enslaved African Americans to advocate for their freedom. Between the summers of 1813 and 1814, 4,000-5,000 fled to the side of the British, in the hopes of securing freedom and safe passage for themselves and their families.
Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail
What Caused the War of 1812? Modified Lesson Plan for Students with Special Needs
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson is intended to be used to supplement the War of 1812 Curriculum developed by the Friends of Fort McHenry.
Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail
Live from 1812!
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will act out newscasts taking place in different parts of the country during the War of 1812. Four groups will portray four unique experiences using primary and secondary source readings to prepare for the role-play. At the end of the lesson,students will share what they learned in a “Letter to the Producer" to answer the question: How did the War of 1812 impact the daily life of citizens economically and socially?
Cowpens National Battlefield
Weapons of the Revolutionary War
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Charleville Musket
Antietam National Battlefield
Women in the Civil War
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This lesson plan can be used to help your students explore some of the important roles that women had during the Civil War.
Keweenaw National Historical Park
Influence of War Post-Activity 2: Influence of War on Copper Industry
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to demonstrate the rise and fall of copper production and how it often coincides with times of conflict in the later years of mining.
- 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.”
Booker T Washington National Monument
War on the Home Front: Civil War Reading Passage with Graphic Organizer
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Civil War and its outcomes were life-changing events for all the people, both free and enslaved, who were associated with the Burroughs Plantation from 1850 – 1865. Students will learn about: •Life on a piedmont Virginia, slaveholding tobacco farm •National debate on slavery/Differences between North and South •Why the war was fought •How the enslaved and their owners reacted to the war •How each group was affected after the war
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve
French and Indian War Activity
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Representing the competing interests of the European nations on a global scale, set in the North American contenient. These battles ultimately shaped political and cultural divisions across the world, especially here in Louisiana that are still felt today!
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Examine conditions of the Civil War's most notorious prison, and learn how inmates were able to cope.
Cowpens National Battlefield
Escape the Battlefield, Win the War!
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The Southern Campaign of the American Revolution was the catalyst for the eventual surrender of General Cornwallis and the British at Yorktown, Virginia. Students will be given an escape room mystery to solve related to certain battles of the Southern Campaign. They will have 60 minutes to solve the given mystery and get out of the escape room.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The Forgotten Warriors of the Civil War is the story of the tragic effect that the American Civil War had upon the tribes of the Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma). More than any other particular group in the United States at the time, the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole (the Five Civilized Tribes) were divided between loyalty to the Union and the secessionist Southern states. This lesson will teach students about why this “civil war within a civil war” occurred.
Aleutian Islands World War II National Historic Area
World War II in Alaska
- Type: Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This resource guide is designed to aid students and teachers in researching Alaska’s World War II history. It contains resources and references to allow students to conduct independent research into this little-known story of World War II. Included is a map of important World War II sites in the north Pacific and a summary of Alaska's World War II experience, as well as information about National Historic Landmarks related to World War II in Alaska.
Andersonville National Historic Site
Report on the Treatment of Prisoners of War
- Type: Primary Sources
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This document is the report of a House of Representatives committee which interviewed former prisoners of war and civilians imprisoned by the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.