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Art Speaks! Visual Arts & the Significance of Place

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

How can art help you understand history? Use this lesson plan to help your students connect the idea of significance and memorial.

I Know That Tune! Folk Music, Traditions, Opinions, & Historical Facts

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Learn how public opinion influences the way historic events are remembered via music. Study several historic songs and why and how they changed over time. Rewrite a modern song to reflect recent history.

Colonial National Historical Park

Civilian Conservation Corps

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

By completing a Break Out Edu type activity, students will discover what the Civilian Conservation Corps contributed to Colonial National Historic Park during the Neal Deal by deciphering clues that require students to read articles, encyclopedia entries, and a map.

Navesink Lighthouse and Robbins Reef Lighthouse: Lighting the Way Through New York Bay

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The lesson could be used in U.S. history, social studies, and geography courses in units on nineteenth century and early twentieth century commerce or transportation, and to help students understand the role that maritime industries played in American history. The lesson could also be used to enhance studies related to the industrial revolution and women’s history.

Interacting With Yorktown Through Poetry

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this lesson plan students will interact with Yorktown Historical documents to obtain a better understanding of the history of Yorktown and aspect free verse poetry.

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.

Federal Hall National Memorial

Evacuation Day marked the final British evacuation from New York City in 1783, after seven years.

• Type: Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

The National Park Service invites you to our annual Evacuation Day Event, this year being held VIRTUALLY! Evacuation Day marked the final British evacuation from New York City in 1783, after seven years. Evacuation Day remained a city holiday into the 1930s and the occasion was often marked by parades and colorful ceremonies.

Graphing the Wounded - Wrapping it all up

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will research information to find information about the number of wounded from both patriot and British forces from the SC revolutionary battles: Battle of Camden, Battle of Waxhaws, Kings Mountain, and Cowpens. They will then create a graph that compares the number both injured and fatally wounded.

Fort Stanwix National Monument

Through the Oneida Carrying Place: Travel, Trade, and Conflict

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

How did European/Native contact on the New York frontier influence the development of early America? When this virtual tour is complete, students will have a brief overview of European/Native relations in early American history. Including how trade, war, and politics on the New York frontier affected both sides.

African Burial Ground National Monument

Discover the African Burial Ground National Monument: A Lightning Lesson from Teaching with Historic Places

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Identify ways people memorialized the dead at the “Negros Buriel Ground” in colonial New York and ways people memorialized the African Burial Ground National Monument.

Fort Stanwix National Monument

The Battle of Oriskany: "Blood Shed a Stream Running Down"

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Learn how New York's Mohawk Valley became the setting for a fierce Revolutionary War battle that pitted residents of the area, including the nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, against each other.

Governors Island National Monument

Middle School Traveling Trunks

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Packed with lesson plans, primary source documents, reproduction artifacts, movies, and more, our Traveling Trunks are a ready-made and easy way to make New York City and U.S. history tangible to students.

Governors Island National Monument

4th Grade Traveling Trunk

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Packed with lesson plans, primary source documents, reproduction artifacts, movies, and more, our Traveling Trunk is a ready-made and easy way to make New York City and U.S. history tangible to students.

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park

Life after "Freedom" Post-Visit Activity

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Tubman’s deep faith sustained her as nurse and a spy for the Union army. Tubman eventually settled with her extended family in Auburn, New York, was active in the women’s suffrage movement and founded a home for the elderly and disadvantaged.

General Grant National Memorial Educator's Guide

• Type: Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Common Core-Aligned for New York state, the General Grant National Memorial Educator's Guide offers seven unique lesson plans for teachers of Middle school students, and is easily adaptable for Elementary and High school students. The guide is also a great way to prepare classes for field trips to the memorial.

Statue Of Liberty National Monument

Statue of Liberty Pedestal and Museum: Self-Guided Tour

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This self-guided program will tour you through the Statue of Liberty’s lobby, museum and observation deck. As you approach the statue think about how the statue could have changed over the years, inside and out. Think about the engineering that when into supporting a statue of this size in windy New York Harbor.

Project Birdwing

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Gulls are one of the types of birds discussed in this lesson plan.

Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument

Finding a Home

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

As immigrants finished processing at Ellis Island, many waited with hopes, fears, and anticipation about where they chose to settle. Some preferred the comforts of immigrant communities nearby. Others hoped to find better job opportunities outside the greater New York City area. Finding a Home simulates the experience of being a newly-arrived immigrant excited to take their next steps in America.

Stonewall National Monument

"All Are Welcome" Lesson Plan

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Stonewall was a galvanizing moment that empowered a range of advocacy. The book, “All are Welcome” by Alexandra Penfold and Suzanne Kaufman is a New York Times bestselling picture book about a school where diversity and inclusion are celebrated. With vividly detailed illustrations and a gently reassuring text, Penfold and Kaufman celebrate kindness, inclusivity, and diversity in a joyous read-aloud that is a must for every child’s bookshelf.

Martin Van Buren National Historic Site

‘Henry ‘Box’ Brown: An Extraordinary Journey to Freedom’

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

‘Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad,’ is a Caldecott Honor children’s book that sensitively introduces the experience of enslavement through the personal story of Henry ‘Box’ Brown whom successfully obtained his freedom by mailing himself to Philadelphia. The program consists of reading a book and completing thematic activities designed to fulfil national as well as New York State curriculum standards.