In this lesson, students will explore original source materials illuminating the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War. At the end of the lesson, students will be able to assess the impact of governmental action during military crises on American concepts of civil liberties and on habeas corpus, in particular.
In this lesson, students demonstrate an understanding that a habitat is a home, and native habitats are the best and only home for native species.
Through this lesson, students will better understand Harriet Tubman's decisions in the larger context of the institution of slavery.
In this lesson, students create a historical fictional character based on research. Through a letter writing activity, students gain a richer understanding on the pressures and challenges facing people working with the railroads. This lesson is found on pages 14-15 of the PDF.
In this lesson, students will learn about the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, read the articles of the treaty, and rewrite them in their own words. Students then write about how the Treaty affects them today.
This lesson focuses on how marine-derived nutrients from salmon carcasses find their way into terrestrial environments and how scientists can track these marine-derived nutrients to analyze their importance to ecosystems today, as well as, reconstructing past ecosystem processes. After learning about salmon nutrient cycling, students will complete a food web simulation activity. Students will complete a bioaccumulation quiz as a summary assignment for the lesson. The presentation needed for the lesson can be downloaded from: https://www.nps.gov/_cs_upload/olym/learn/education/classrooms/601617_1.pptx
This lesson focuses on the history and roles that hatcheries serve in sustaining commercial fisheries, native fish populations, and saving endangered fish stocks.
This lesson focuses on the recent collapse of marine fisheries across the world due to increased commercial fishing pressures, a result of increased technology coupled with the changing climate of marine environments related to greenhouse gas pollution.
This resource provides basic information to help students evaluate the quality of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial.
Students will learn about the impact which the Spanish explorers had on the Native Americans in the area which is now the state of New Mexico.
In this lesson, students compare, contrast, and reflect on primary source documents to infer how the two leading commanders of the U.S.-Mexican War influenced Ulysses S. Grant and prepared him for future leadership roles.
Students will learn about the cultural traditions of the Pueblos by studying their pottery.
In this lesson, students identify the natural elements that have helped the Statue of Liberty change color over time and describe how the oxidation process can impact metals like copper. Students will also interpret whether the Statue of Liberty will hold as much cultural significance today had the copper not oxidized.
In this lesson, students will identify different groups that participated in the River Raisin Battles, hypothesize about decisions made by a participant in the River Raisin Battles, and understand the impact of these decisions on the War of 1812.
In this lesson, students demonstrate energy transfer and connections between plants and animals.
In this lesson, students summarize the relationship among Native Americans and Europeans in reference to the conduct of trade.
In this lesson, students discuss reasons for joining an army and the differences between a regular army and a militia of volunteers. Then they review and discuss U.S. and Mexican perspectives on regular and volunteer soldiers.
In this activity, students explore and investigate 4 different areas around campus (mud puddle, rocky parking lot, grass field, tree base) to determine other living things in those areas and what they might need from those areas.
In this lesson, students compare their local weather conditions to those from weather data reports from Olympic National Park.
In this lesson, students learn the key ingredients necessary to form geysers and how they function naturally. Students will build their own geyser models, while forming and testing hypotheses about the eruption behavior using different variables.