Educator Resources

The Old Courthouse serves as the backdrop for this program where scouts will learn about local government, past and present, and how they can be active citizens today.

In this lesson, students will answer the following essential question: What combination of factors, both natural and manmade, is necessary for healthy river restoration and how does this enhance the sustainability of natural and human communities?

The students will be able to: a) list two of the factors involved in the extinction of small populations, and b) differentiate between an individual organism, a species, and a population.

The students will be able to define the terms native, alien, endangered and extinct; explain the impact of exotic vegetation to natural communities; name at least three native and three exotic species found in South Florida.

There are many different and varied invasive species, but for this lesson the key points are that the species is (1) not native and (2) causes harm to either the economy or the environment. This activity will allow students to focus on one invasive species and present the information that they find about their species to classmates in a classroom go-around at the end of their research.

Students will be able to: research facts about National Parks present information to the class participate in an individual or group project

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

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.

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.

Lesson Plan: Students explore the roles of women during the Manhattan Project at Hanford, Los Alamos, and Oak Ridge.

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.

This lesson plan can be used to help your students explore some of the important roles that women had during the Civil War.

Your class will join a ranger at Launch Control Center Delta-01, 31 feet underground, to explore the Minuteman II system's role as a nuclear deterrent during the Cold War and visit sites rarely seen by civilians while in use, but that nevertheless loomed large on the geo-political landscape.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Students use primary sources and historical knowledge to explain how enslaved women resisted slavery in the Revolutionary Era.

Women in science have made history studying and learning amongst the canyon walls. Learn observation and botany skills with these trailblazing women.

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.