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Glacier National Park

Eco-enrichers
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Students evaluate the importance of soil as well as plant and animal matter as contributors to soil through observing earthworms decompose composting materials.

Gateway Arch National Park

ECO Rangers Summer Camp
  • Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Explore what lives in our lakes, ponds, streams, forests, and prairie lands. Do the same macros live in the creeks and ponds? What birds and animals live in the prairie lands vs woodlands? Fish the lakes and rivers, fine tune your archery marksmanship, net for macros in ponds, and search for the birds in our Missouri’s public lands.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Economy and Trade: Pre 1845
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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In Economy and Trade: Pre 1845, students will learn about trade relations between tribes prior to European contact and how their experience prepared them for success in dealing with explorers and traders after European contact by re-enacting trading as it was practiced at Knife River Villages.

Kings Mountain National Military Park

Women in the American Revolution
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Women had an important role in the Revolution. Complete this student activity to learn more.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Subsistence: Women’s Influence
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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Students will learn how women shaped the lives and livelihoods of the tribes living at Knife River Indian Villages through agricultural practices and trade by reading and discussion, graphic organization utilizing the KWL (Know/Want to Know/Learned) model and through experiential learning.

Fort Larned National Historic Site

Women of the Military Frontier
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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Men weren't the only people at frontier military posts - women lived at these forts as well. Find out who they were and how they spent their days.

Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Women and the Manhattan Project
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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Lesson Plan: Students explore the roles of women during the Manhattan Project at Hanford, Los Alamos, and Oak Ridge.

Women's Rights National Historical Park

Be a Women's Rights Influencer
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
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Students will research women’s rights and reform advocates from the nineteenth century. Students will choose one activist and act as their social media manager. Students will create a social media plan for the platform of their choice and highlight their reformer’s story.

Antietam National Battlefield

Women in the Civil War
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
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This lesson plan can be used to help your students explore some of the important roles that women had during the Civil War.

Homestead National Historical Park

Women Who Paved the Way, Exploring Women Homesteaders and Suffragists (Adult)
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Adult Education
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The Homestead Act of 1862 was gender-blind, allowing women to claim 160 acres of land just like men could. As women homesteaders were helping to settle the West, suffragists fought to secure the right to vote for women across the United States.

Gateway National Recreation Area

Women at Floyd Bennett Field
  • Type: Teacher Reference Materials
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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This teacher's guide includes materials to introduce students to changes in the role of women and society during WWII. It includes materials for reading, discussing and reflecting on biographies of four women of the Armed Services and their ability to pick up the war effort at home and abroad.

Women's Rights National Historical Park

Women’s Rights are Human Rights
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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In this series of four lesson plans from the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor, students will be able to explore the development and growth of the American women's rights movement. This includes lessons about the Seneca Falls Convention, the Erie Canal, and the later women's rights movement. Developed by educator Lynn Girven of the Rochester City School District.

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

Women and Children in the Mill Village
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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In this lesson, students will learn about the role women and children played in the community at Mill Villages. They will analyze a series of photographs using the "I see… I think… I feel… I wonder…" literacy strategy.

Salem Maritime National Historic Site

Enslaved Women & Revolutionary Resistance
  • Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
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Students use primary sources and historical knowledge to explain how enslaved women resisted slavery in the Revolutionary Era.

Grand Canyon National Park

Women in Science at Grand Canyon
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
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Women in science have made history studying and learning amongst the canyon walls. Learn observation and botany skills with these trailblazing women.

Springfield Armory National Historic Site

Role of Women at the Springfield Armory
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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During World War I and World War II, millions of women in the United States entered the workforce to keep industrial production going as male workers left to join the military. Students will analyze photographs and text of a newspaper article to gain a deeper understanding of the contributions of women, whose presence changed how females were viewed as workers. Initially underestimated in their capabilities, women proved to be an integral part of Armory production.

Homestead National Historical Park

Women Who Paved the Way, Exploring Women Homesteaders and Suffragists (6th - 8th)
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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The Homestead Act of 1862 was gender-blind, allowing women to claim 160 acres of land just like men could. As women homesteaders were helping to settle the West, suffragists fought to secure the right to vote for women across the United States.

Homestead National Historical Park

Women Who Paved the Way, Exploring Women Homesteaders and Suffragists (9th - 12th)
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
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The Homestead Act of 1862 was gender-blind, allowing women to claim 160 acres of land just like men could. As women homesteaders were helping to settle the West, suffragists fought to secure the right to vote for women across the United States.

Cowpens National Battlefield

Unsung Patriots: Women at the Battle of Cowpens
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The student will be able to identify the varied roles of women in the American Revolution.

Salem Maritime National Historic Site

How did slavery connect Salem to a global economy?
  • Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
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Students examine two primary source documents connected to Salem merchant, Richard Derby, to explore connections between slavery in Salem, maritime trade, and a global economy.