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Acadia National Park- classroom and on-site resources

Alaska ParkWise
Learn about Alaska, your national parks and the National Park Service. Information for teachers, students and parents. It's more than just Alaska - it's a whole lot of fun!

Alaska Public Lands Information Centers
Educational Adventures -- The Alaska Public Lands Information Centers are pleased to work with students and teachers throughout the state in providing educational assistance, programs, and materials about the public lands in Alaska.

Aleutian World War II National Historic Area
Attu: North American Battleground of World War II (Teaching with Historic Places) Examine military maps and photos to better understand why an isolated battle on a remote island in Alaska alarmed the nation.

Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site
Boats move uphill? Check out this unusual event in America's transportation history at Allegheny Portage. Here you will find a guide to the park's curriculum-based programs: pre- and post-visit activities, Brownie Try-its, and more! Try Allegheny Portage Railroad: Developing Transportation Technology (Teaching with Historic Places) Follow 19th-century travelers as they cross the treacherous Allegheny Mountains using an innovative inclined railway.

Amistad National Recreation Area - program descriptions, on-site materials, lesson plans

Andersonville National Historic Site - basic program information, contacts

Antietam National Battlefield - on-site resources

Apostle Islands National Landmark - pre-visit information, teachers guide to service learning (PDF Format)

Arches National Park - Teacher's Guide, pre and post visit information

Arizona Memorial   "USS Arizona Memorial"
Try: Remembering Pearl Harbor: The USS Arizona Memorial (Teaching With Historic Places). This lesson could be used in American history units on World War II or in courses dealing more generally with war and conflict. Students will better understand the logistics of the Japanese attack, the Arizona's destruction, and the significance of the Memorial to the people of the United States.

Assateague Island National Seashore - On site Environmental Education Programs

Aztec Ruins National Monument - classroom and on-site resources

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Badlands National Park
Lesson plans, activities, and resources supporting education in geology, paleontology, prairie resources, and wildlife can be found in Badlands National Park's Teacher’s Corner.

Bentonville Battleground State Historic Site
The Battle of Bentonville: Caring for Casualties of the Civil War(Teaching with Historic Places)
Understand how battlefield medical care developed during the Civil War, particularly in the Union Army.

The Bellamy-Ferriday House and Garden, Bethlehem, CT
The Joseph Bellamy House: The Great Awakening in Puritan New England (Teaching with Historic Places) Examine the influence of Reverend Joseph Bellamy, a leading preacher in New England from 1740-1790, in colonial American religion, and learn about the role of religion in 18th-century life as well as the resurgence of religious fervor known as the Great Awakening.

Big Bend National Park
The park's Teacher Feature provides lesson plands, workbooks, activities, pre-trip planning and other goodies for techers and students. Also try: Castolon: A Meeting Place of Two Cultures (Teaching with Historic Places) Compare the Spanish and Anglo influences on settlements along the Texas-Mexico border region of the Rio Grande.

Big Thicket National Preserve - on-site resources

Big South Fork National Recreation Area - classroom and on-site resources

Biscayne National Park - on-site, classroom and on-line resources

Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

Blue Ridge Parkway - on-site resources

Booker T. Washington National Monument - pre-visit, on-site and pst-visit resources

Boston African American National Historic Site - on-site resources

Boston's Arbold Arboretum: A Place for Study and Recreation (Teaching with Historic Places)
Discover how the first arboretum in the United States became part of the burgeoning urban park movement in the second half of the 19th century. (National Historic Landmark)

Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site - Pre visit guide to the park with list of programs, curriculum materials, and references. Curriculum Guides for 4th, 6th and 8th grades

Bryce Canyon National Park - Field trip information, on-site programs. Also try: Bryce Canyon National Park: Hoodoos Cast Their Spell (Teaching with Historic Places) Explore the natural wonders of this once remote area in Utah and learn how it became a popular tourist destination in the early 20th century and finally a national park. (National Park/Includes Bryce Canyon Lodge, a National Historic Landmark).

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Canyonlands National Park - pre-visit, on-site, post-visit and offsite resources

Cabrillo National Monument
On-line Curriculum-Based Web Activities can be found here for the classroom or home. Information about on-site programs is also available.

Cape Cod National Seashore - classroom and on-site resources

Cape HatterasNational Seashore
Little Kinnakeet Lifesaving Station: Home to Unsung Heroes (Teaching with Historic Places) Learn about the United States Lifesaving Service daring rescues to save imperiled lives from the "Graveyard of the Atlantic."

Cape Lookout National Seashore - on- and off-site programs focus on lighthouses, sea turtles and horses. Field trip planning information.

Capulin Volcano National Monument
Get pre-visit information and explore on-site resources

Carlsbad Caverns National Park
About Bats, Caves and Deserts Learn about Carlsbad while meeting requirements of New Mexico's state-wide education framework. This complete, on-line teacher guide is designed for elementary school teachers, though adaptable for secondary grades. Chihuahuan Desert Lab One of five National Park Laboratories designed to enhance schience math and technology studeis at the high school level.

Carnegie Libraries
Carnegie Libraries: The Future Made Bright (Teaching with Historic Places) Discover how and why industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie chose libraries to be among his greatest benefactions to the U.S., and assess the impact of libraries on American society.

Castillo de San Marcos - on-site programs, background materials and activities to download

Catoctin Mountain Park
Also try: Camp Misty Mount: A Place for Regrowth (Teaching with Historic Places) Inspect a recreational demonstration area (RDA) in western Maryland, created as part of a Great Depression government relief program.

Central Bethlehem Historic District
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: A Moravian Settlement in Colonial America (Teaching with Historic Places) Learn why Moravians immigrated to the New World and how the towns they established embodied their religious beliefs.

Central High School National Historic Site
From Canterbury to Little Rock: The Struggle for Educational Equality for African Americans (Teaching with Historic Places)
Understand the magnitude of the struggle involved in securing equal educational opportunities for African Americans by examining the 1957 attempt to integrate Little Rock's schools, and by examining how Prudence Crandall challenged the prevailing attitude toward educating African Americans in New England prior to the Civil War.

Channel Island National Park - classroom and on-site resources

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park
The Building of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Teaching with Historic Places) This lesson will help students realize the role canals played in western expansion and in the evolution of transportation by focusing on the construction of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.

Chesterwood, the Daniel Chester French Home and Studio, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Try: Chesterwood: The Workshop of an American Sculptor (Teaching with Historic Places) Learn about the life and work of the sculptor, Daniel Chester French, and about the important role public sculpture played in turn-of-the-20th century America.

Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park - on-site programs, pre visit materials, lesson plans and teacher guides

Clara Barton National Historic Site - on site programs for grades K-3 and 4-6.

Colonial National Historical Park - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

Cowpens National Battlefield - Teachers guide, timeline, pluson and off site activities

Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve
Teacher guides, online activities and field trip planning.

Curecanti National Recreation Area - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area
The Ohio and Erie Canal: Catalyst of Economic Development for Ohio (Teaching with Historic Places)
Assess the importance of America's early canal system and its economic and social effects.

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Delaware National Scenic River - a variety of programs and opportunities

Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area - a variety of programs and opportunities

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Edgar Allen Poe National Historic Site - two educational programs for students and reservation information, as well as a downloadable guide for teachers (PDF format).

Edison National Historic Site - pre-visit and on-site resources
Try: The Invention Factory: Thomas Edison's Laboratories (Teaching with Historic Places) The products developed at the research laboratory during the late 19th and early 20th centuries dramatically changed the way Americans lived and worked. The fusion of business and technology achieved at the West Orange complex provided a model for modern corporate and governmental research and development laboratories.

Effigy Mounds National Monument -on-site and on-line resources

Eisenhower National Historic Site - pre-visit and on-site resources; plus: Thaw in the Cold War: Eisenhower and Khrushchev at Gettysburg (Teaching with Historic Places) Delve into a superpower meeting and discover how President Eisenhower's brand of diplomacy at this Pennsylvania farm temporarily eased the tensions of the Cold War.

Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site
First Lady of the World: Eleanor Roosevelt at Val-Kill (Teaching with Historic Places) This lesson could be used in American history courses in units on efforts to achieve world peace during the Cold War in the 1950s, or on human rights and civil rights issues. Students will learn about Eleanor Roosevelt's contributions as a humanitarian.

Ellis Island National Monument - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

Everglades National Park - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

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Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
Adeline Hornbek and the Homestead Act: A Colorado Success Story (Teaching with Historic Places) Discover how Adeline Hornbek, single mother of four, defied traditional gender roles to become the owner of a successful ranch under the Homestead Act.

Ford's Theater - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

Fort Caroline National Memorial - program information and reservation information

Fort Clatsop National Memorial - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

Fort Davis National Historic Site - On site programs for grades K-12 (once on the page, scroll to bottom of the screen for details), trip planning information

Fort Donelson National Battlefield - on-site information, teacher guides and classroom kits.

Fort Frederica National Monument - pre- and post- visit activities, online lesson plans and reservations information

Fort Laramie National Historic Site
Materials for field trip and in-class programs available from the Fort Laramie Historical Association.

Fort Larned National Historic Site - on line materials

Fort Matanzas National Monument - on-site programs, background materials and activities to download

Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine - on-site programs and teacher guide.

Fort Morgan State Historic Site
Fort Morgan and the Battle of Mobile Bay (Teaching with Historic Places) Follow Admiral Farragut's attack on Fort Morgan and Mobile Bay, and consider the human reaction to technologies such as ironclads and underwater mines.

Fort Moultrie National Monument - pre-visit and reservation information

Fort Necessity National Battlefield - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

Fort Point National Historic Site - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

Fort Pulaski National Monument - reservations information

Fort Raleigh National Historic Site - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

Fort Scott National Historic Site - programs descriptions, teacher's guides, activity packets, and a virtual resource center.

Fort Smith National Historic Site
Contact the park for information about the program targeted for
Grades 2-5.

Fort Stanwix National Monument - pre-visit, on-site, off-site and post-visit materials. Try: The Battle of Oriskany: "Blood Shed a Stream Running Down" (Teaching with Historic Places) 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.

Fort Vancouver National Historic Site - three exciting hands-on programs for students grades 3-12.

The Frankish Building, Ontario, California
The Frankish Building: A Reflection of the Success of Ontario, California(Teaching with Historic Places) Analyze how this local landmark came to symbolize the commercial prosperity of a western town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site - pre-visit, on-site, and post-visit resources (see also "Olmstead Park System," below)

Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park - on-site materials, pre-visit planning, lesson plans. Also try: Chatham Plantation: Witness to the Civil War (Teaching with Historic Places) Learn why this home in Fredericksburg, Virginia, was a center of military activity, and consider the impact the war had on those whose property became part of the battlefield.

Friendship Hill National Historic Site - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

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Gateway National Recreation Area
Try: Fort Hancock: A Bastion of America's Eastern Seaboard (Teaching with Historic Places) Learn U.S. history, social studies, and geography through discussion of American foreign policy around the turn of the 20th century and military history and technology.

Gettysburg National Military Park -
The park offers a teachers guide and reservation information for a variety of programs, including distance learning programs that will bring the park to your students. Also try: Choices and Commitments: The Soldiers at Gettysburg (Teaching with Historic Places) Trace the course of this Civil War battle and consider the wrenching personal choices that were made by soldiers on each side.

George Washington's Birthplace National Monument - pre and post visit materials, lesson plans, reservation information, grades K-7.

Georgetown County Rice Plantations & Chicora Wood Plantation When Rice Was King (Teaching with Historic Places) Investigate early rice plantations in Georgetown, South Carolina, to learn how rice cultivation transformed the native environment and promoted the South's dependence on a plantation economy.

Glacier National Park
Try: Going-to-the-Sun Road: A Model of Landscape Engineering (Teaching with Historic Places)
Learn about some of the practical problems of constructing roads in difficult terrain and about the added challenge of building in such a way as to enhance, rather than damage, fragile and beautiful places such as Glacier National Park.

Golden Gate National Recreation Area - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

Grand Canyon National Park Information about on-site educational field trips and teacher training workshops can be found here, as well as links to additional information about the Environmental Education program at the Grand Canyon.

Great Basin National Park classroom, on and off-site activities, teacher resource and activity guide, workshops

Great Falls Park - program descriptions, grades 3-9, trip planning and scheduling information

Great Sand Dunes National Monument and Preserve - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit materials, on-line animations and other activities illustrating geologic time, hydrology and ecology as well as other great resources.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park - on-site resources

Guilford Courthouse National Military Park
Guilford Courthouse: A Pivotal Battle in the War for Independence (Teaching with Historic Places) Learn how the deceptive results of this battle in the backwoods of North Carolina helped set the stage for American victory.

Gulf Islands National Seashore - general program information, reservations

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Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument - Make arrangements for visits through the park web page.

Haleakala National Park - on-site programs, self and ranger-guided school programs.

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park
Arrange a field trip to the park.

Herbert Hoover National Historical Site - on-site, pre- and post-visit activities.

Homestead National Monument of America - on site, pre and post visit activities, visit and "virtual visit" planning. Also try:
The Freeman School: Building Prairie Communities (Teaching with Historic Places) The lesson units on westward expansion and homesteading, the history of education in America, early mapping of lands, and studies of American cultural developments.

Honey Springs Battlefield
The Battle of Honey Springs: The Civil War Comes to the Indian Territory (Teaching with Historic Places)
Learn how the Civil War created fierce conflicts among American Indian nations who had been moved across the Mississippi River

Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site - pre-visit, on-site resources and a teacher's guide, and: Hopewell Furnace: A Pennsylvania Iron-making Plantation (Teaching with Historic Places) Explore how Hopewell functioned as a productive work unit and how work defined social relationships in this early National period community.

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park
The Battle of Horseshoe Bend: Collision of Cultures (Teaching with Historic Places) Consider the complex political and cultural differences that existed between European Americans and American Indians during the early 19th century and learn how these conflicting views ultimately affected the Creeks.

Hovenweep National Monument - pre-visit, on-site, post-visit and offsite resources

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Independence National Historical Park
Teacher's Guide to Independence National Historical Park This guide includes activities for both on and off-site use, as well as a wealth of pre-visit information. Also try: The Liberty Bell: From Obscurity to Icon (Teaching with Historic Places) Analyze the influences that shaped the symbolic meaning of the bell, and evaluate the various claims as to how and when it was cracked.

Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore - on-site programs

Iron Hill School Historic Site
Iron Hill School: An African-American One-Room School (Teaching with Historic Places) Discover how an early 20th-century philanthropist reformed Delaware's education system for African-American children.

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Jamestown National Historic Site - on site programs, self-guided programs, reservations

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park
Try: The Vieux Carre: A Creole Neighborhood in New Orleans (Teaching with Historic Places). This lesson is one in a series that brings the important stories of historic places into the classrooms across the country, and could be used in teaching units on colonial history, westward expansion in 18th- and 19th-century America, or multiculturalism.

Jefferson National Expansion Memorial - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

Jimmy Carter National Historic Site - on-site resources

John Day Fossil Beds National Monument - pre-visit and on-site resources

John F. Kennedy National Historic Site
Birthplace of John F. Kennedy: Home of the Boy Who Would Be President (Teaching with Historic Places)
Visit JFK's birthplace and consider the effects of culture and community in shaping character and personality. (National Park/National Historic Landmark)

John Marshall House
"The Great Chief Justice" at Home (Teaching with Historic Places)
Meet John Marshall, who led the U.S. Supreme Court from obscurity and weakness to prominence and power in the early 19th century

Johnstown Flood National Memorial
The story of the Johnstown Flood has everything to interest the modern mind: a wealthy resort, an intense storm, an unfortunate failure of a dam, the destruction of a working class city, and an inspiring relief effort. Here you'll find a guide to the park's curriculum-based programming, pre- and post-visit activities, Brownie Try-its, and more. Also Try: Run For Your Lives! The Johnstown Flood of 1889 (Teaching with Historic Places) Determine how environmental management, technology, and the actions of 19th-century industrialists contributed to a disaster in Pennsylvania that shocked the nation.

Joshua Tree National Monument -classroom and on-site resources.
Also try: Keys Ranch: Where Time Stood Still (Teaching with Historic Places) Meet Bill Keys, a self-reliant 20th-century homesteader whose ingenuity allowed him to thrive in the inhospitable California desert.

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Klondike Goldrush Nationa Historical Park
Skagway: Gateway to the Klondike (Teaching with Historic Places)
Gold Fever! Seattle Outfits the Klondike Gold Rush (Teaching with Historic Places) Examine how the discovery of gold in the Canada's remote Klondike region touched off the last great gold rush, creating an economic boom that changed the city of Seattle forever. Join the stampede for gold when over 100,000 prospectors set out for the Klondike.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
Guide for Teachers, pre and post visit activities

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Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Classroom and on-site resources

Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area - on and off site activities, pre and post visit information, opportunities for classes K-12. Program descriptions and details for reservations

Lava Beds National Monument - on-site resources

Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail - schedules, activities, programs

Locke Historic District
Locke and Walnut Grove: Havens for Early Asian Immigrants in California (Teaching with Historic Places) Understand the experience of early Asian immigrants and the obstacles they encountered as they struggled to make a living and find a place in American society.

Lowell National Historical Park - classroom and on-site resources

Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park
Learning Place provides information about all educational programming at the park.

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Madam Walker Building and the J.C. Penney Historic District
Two American Entrepreneurs: Madam C.J. Walker and J.C. Penney (Teaching with Historic Places) Examine the historic places associated with two of America's most famous 20th century business people.

Mammoth Cave National Park - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources, including cool cave curricula for teachers.

Manassas National Battlefield Park - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources: plus First Battle of Manassas: An End to Innocence (Teaching with Historic Places) Study personal accounts of soldiers who fought in the first battle of the Civil War, and discover how the day set the tone for the many bloody battles to come.

Manzanar National Historic Site
The War Relocation Centers of World War II: When Fear Was Stronger than Justice (Teaching with Historic Places) Learn what led the U.S. government to confine nearly 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry to relocation centers in remote areas of the country during World War II.

Market and Main Streets Historic District and Terminal Station, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Chattanooga, Tennessee: Train Town (Teaching with Historic Places) Examine how geography and boosterism influenced the placement of rail lines, which then stimulated the growth of towns such as Chattanooga.

Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site - teachers guide, trip planning, reservations

Martin Van Buren National Historic Site
Martin Van Buren's "Return to the Soil" (Teaching with Historic Places) This lesson complements classroom study of early 19th-century politics by tracing the life of Martin Van Buren and examining his retirement home. Students will gain a deeper understanding of the man who played an important role in the Jacksonian Era.

Mesa Verde National Park - a variety of activities useful for on-site and offsite use. Prepare for your visit or come back to learn more.

Mississippi National River and National Recreation Area - classroom and on-site resources

Montpelier
Memories of Montpelier: Home of James and Dolley Madison (Teaching with Historic Places) Visit the Madisons' plantation home and their world of social prominence, and explore some contemporary views of slavery.

Moore's Creek national Battlefield
Guide for Teachers, pre- and post visit information, background resources

Mount Rainier National Park - on site activities, pre and post visit information, opportunities for classes K-12. Program descriptions and details for reservations

Morristown National Historical Park
From Farming Village to Log Hut City: Morristown during the American Revolution 1779-1780 (Teaching with Historic Places) previsit, on-site and post-visit curriculum-based education program

Muir Woods National Monument- pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

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National Capital Parks - Central - on-site resources

National Capitol Region Education Programs - A guide to education programs throughout the National Capitol Region of the National Park Service. Looking for something to do with your class? This index is a great place to start.

National Mall - Many on-site programs available throughout the Mall, including the history of the National Mall and specific Monuments and Memorials. Printable guide and registration form. Grades 3-11.

Natural Bridges National Monument - pre-visit, on-site, post-visit and offsite resources

New River Gorge National River - classroom and on-site resources; plus: Thurmond: A Town Born from Coal Mines and Railroads (Teaching with Historic Places) Examine the complex and often dangerous daily routines at the Thurmond train depot, and learn how rail workers were immortalized by some of the people they served.

Nez Perce National Historical Park Students visiting the park can learn about traditional structures and how they were built, what a child's life was like in the past, the significant activities of each season, or create a memory string of their own memories.

The North Carolina State Capitol
North Carolina State Capitol: Pride of the State (Teaching with Historic Places) Discover how Raleigh became the capital of North Carolina and how the design of the capitol building reflected state pride as well as democratic ideals.

North Cascades National Park - on and off site activities, lesson plans, program descriptions and reservation information

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Olmsted Park System, Boston, MA
The Emerald Necklace:Boston's Green Connection (Teaching with Historic Places) Learn about Frederick Law Olmsted and his philosophy about parks and cities as well as city life during the Industrial Revolution.

Olympic National Park - On the website you'll find hands-on curriculum guides for the lowland and old-growth forests of Olympic National Park and the Pacific Northwest. These activities can be usefull anywhere. In addition, this site provides information about educational trunks, ranger programs, and teacher workshops. An Educational CD-ROM is also available.

Oregon Caves National Monument - plan your park visit, contact the park about Environmental Education programs

Oxon Hill Farm - Pre- and post-visit activities, on-site program information

Ozark National Scenic Riverways - on and off-site, previsit and post-visit resources, featuring a teachers guide to caves

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Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit materials, school visits

Pecos National Historical Park
The Battle of Glorieta Pass: A Shattered Dream (Teaching with Historic Places) Explore the impact of the Civil War on the people who lived through it. Examine the past military experience of people in your community, state, or region and compare it with the events at Glorieta Pass, New Mexico.

Petersburg National Battlefield - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

Petrified Forest National Park - Program information, contact numbers for details

Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park
The Battle of Prairie Grove: Civilian Recollections of the Civil War (Teaching with Historic Places) Understand the violence of the Civil War through the eyes of young women whose homes were in the midst of an important battle and continuing conflict.

Point Reyes National Seashore - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

Prince William Forest Park - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

Prudence Crandall Museum, Canterbury, CT
From Canterbury to Little Rock: The Struggle for Educational Equality for African Americans (Teaching with Historic Places)
Understand the magnitude of the struggle involved in securing equal educational opportunities for African Americans and examine how Prudence Crandall challenged the prevailing attitude toward educating African Americans in New England prior to the Civil War.

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Rancho Los Alamitos
Californio to American: A Study in Cultural Change (Teaching with Historic Places) Evaluate several centuries of dramatic changes to an adobe ranch house and its surroundings in suburban Long Beach to analyze the interaction between Spanish and Anglo culture in California.

Redwood National Park - on-site resources

Riversbridge State Historic Site, Ehrhardt, SC
These Honored Dead: The Battle of Rivers Bridge and Civil War Combat Casualties (Teaching with Historic Places) Learn how veteran soldiers adapted to the technological changes that had increased the deadliness of the battlefield, and understand the cost of the Civil War in human terms.

Roadside Attractions
Roadside Attractions (Teaching with Historic Places) Follow the highways of the 1920s and 1930s, exploring the whimsical, extravagant architecture that came with American auto culture.

Rock Creek Park- pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

Roger Williams National Monument - classroom and on-site activities

Rohwer Relocation Center Memorial Cemetery
The War Relocation Centers of World War II: When Fear Was Stronger than Justice (Teaching with Historic Places)
Learn what led the U.S. government to confine nearly 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry to relocation centers in remote areas of the country during World War II.

Ross Lake National Recreation Area - on and off site activities, lesson plans, program descriptions and reservation information

Roosevelt Campobello International Park
Try: Springwood: Birthplace and Home to Franklin D. Roosevelt (Teaching With Historic Places) for ideas relating that area to the Campobello site.

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Saint Croix Island International Historic Site - on site programs and travelling teacher trunks

Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site - on-site resources

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
On site programs, background materials for pre- and post visit activities

Saguaro National Park - Park Guide for educators with background, a student journal and activity units.

Saratoga National Historical Park
Saratoga: The Tide Turns on the Frontier (Teaching with Historic Places) Learn about 18th-century warfare and the battle that was a turning point of the American Revolution.

Salem Maritime National Historic Site - on-site resources

Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
Gran Quivira: A Blending of Cultures in a Pueblo Indian Village (Teaching with Historic Places) Students will be able to make sense of past events and issues as they affected people at different time periods, and they will develop historical empathy toward diverse cultures.

San Antonio Missions National Historical Park - onsite programs for grades 3-5 and grades 6-8, trip planning information. Also try: San Antonio Missions: Spanish Influence in Texas (Teaching with Historic Places) Explore a group of 18th-century missions in modern San Antonio to learn about Spanish influence on native peoples and the patterns of Texas culture.

San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources, plus a great curriculum guide, California and the Sea available on line. Clearly linked to the California State Framework, these materials are adaptable to suit other national, state and local standards of learning in Social Studies.

San Juan Island National Historical Park - The Pig War: A Resource Guide for teachers. Learn how a war between Great Britain and the U.S. (over a dead pig!) was averted. This is an interesting story, and a great classroom resource.

San Juan National Historic Site
Forts of Old San Juan: Guardians of the Caribbean (Teaching with Historic Places) Discover how Spanish fortifications on the island of Puerto Rico helped protect Spain's expanding interests in the New World. La versión en español Los Castillos del Viejo San Juan: Guardianes del Caribe

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

Statue of Liberty National Monument - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

St. Croix National Scenic Riverway - variety of materials, pre visit and trip planning, including a curriculum guide for 4th grade

Steamtown National Historic Site - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

Stones River National Battlefield
Teacher guides and lesson plans, visit planning. Also: The Battle of Stones River: The Soldiers' Story (Teaching with Historic Places) Recall one of the Civil War's bloodiest battles, which raged through the rocky cedar glades of Tennessee, as told in eyewitness and personal accounts.

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Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site - classroom and on-site resources

Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve - on-site programs, background materials and activities to download

Tonto National Monument - pre-visit information, on and off-site programs

Tumacacori National Historical Park - previsit information and a guide for the fourth grade.

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University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Thomas Jefferson's Plan for the University of Virginia: Lessons from the Lawn (Teaching with Historic Places) Learn about the multifaceted intellect of Thomas Jefferson and how he fused his abilities as an architect, educational and political theorist, and politician to create a revolutionary new setting for higher education in the new American republic.

Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River - program description and reservation information

USS Arizona Memorial  
Try: Remembering Pearl Harbor: The USS Arizona Memorial (Teaching With Historic Places). This lesson could be used in American history units on World War II or in courses dealing more generally with war and conflict. Students will better understand the logistics of the Japanese attack, the Arizona's destruction, and the significance of the Memorial to the people of the United States.

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Valley Forge National Historical Park - pre and post visit information, program descriptions and reservations.

Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site
Try: Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site: Monument to the Gilded Age (Teaching with Historic Places). Vanderbilt Mansion will help students understand the possibilities for wealth in an age before income taxes and government regulation of business and industry. The lesson focuses on the Vanderbilt family and their rise to become one of the wealthiest families in America.

Vicksburg National Military Park
The Educator's Guide to Science includes a classroom activity in which students research the plants and animals, and "What's My Habitat?" through which students learn how human activities can profoundly affect the natural world. The site includes pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

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Waterford Historic District
Waterford, Virginia: From Mill Town to National Historic Landmark (Teaching with Historic Places) Examine continuity and change in this rural Virginia town from its founding as a Quaker agricultural community and mill town in the 18th century to today.

Weir Farm National Historic Site - on-site activity guide for children, booklet with art cards for teachers. Also Try: Weir Farm: Home of an American Impressionist (Teaching with Historic Places) View the world through an artist's eye and learn how an important art movement was established in America.

White Sands National Monument
White Sands National Monument's education programs offer curriculum-based programs that directly relate park resources to what is being taught in the classroom. A series of Education Fact Sheets is available on the web site, with topics ranging from desert wildlife to descriptions of how and why sand dunes move. On the site are also recommended resding lists for preschool, grades 1-3, grades 4-6, middle and high school.

Whitman Mission National Historic Site - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

Wilson's Creek National Battlefield - pre-visit, on-site and post-visit resources

William Howard Taft National Historic Site
Growing into Public Service: William Howard Taft's Boyhood Home (Teaching with Historic Places) Visit the home of the only man to serve the country both as president and chief justice, and meet the rest of his public service-oriented family.

Wind Cave National Park - pre-visit, on-site, and post-visit resources

Women's Rights National Historical Park - on-site resources

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Yellowstone National Park - classroom and on-site resources

Yosemite National Park - On-site resources help you plan an educational visit to Yosemite.

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Zion National Park
Zion's Teacher Corner provides information for trip planning, and a great deal of background about the park to help prepare for a truly educational visit

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