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NATIONAL HISTORY DAY 2016
Teaching with Historic Places
Additional teaching resources from the National Park Service can be found on its education portal: www.nps.gov/teachers.
A selection of lesson plans relating to the theme Exploration, Encounter, Exchange in History are offered below.
www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/17castolon/17castolon.htm
Castolon: A Meeting Place of Two Cultures
At Castolon, Mexican and American families lived and worked together,
promoting harmony between their people in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. This Teaching with Historic Places lesson shows the
community and the region’s blended culture, as well as how the Mexican
Revolution affected its residents. The lesson includes an English-to-Spanish
translation exercise and primary source reading.
www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/75skagway/75skagway.htm
Skagway: Gateway to the Klondike
Join the stampede for gold, where more than 100,000 prospectors set out
for the Klondike! This lesson demonstrates how the Klondike Gold Rush
influenced the development of Skagway, Alaska, in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries. It can be used in units on western expansion and
urban history. The Teaching Teachers the Power of Place web resource offers
a guide for this lesson written by an elementary school teacher:
(www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/Prof_Dev_Project/Foster_case_study_1.html).
www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/20vieux/2