History & Culture National Park Service: For Teachers

For Teachers

Image of children standing next to a giant tree examining years in rings - dendrochronology

What's so interesting to these young visitors to Sequoia National Park?

From lesson plans based on national curriculum standards to professional development opportunities to college-level historic preservation course outlines, the National Park Service has tools that can help enliven classroom presentations and engage students in learning about history.

From African American History to World War II, Teaching with Historic Places offers place-based lesson plans created by National Park Service interpreters, preservation professionals, and educators linked to national standard for history and social studies.

Could archeology enrich your lessons on social studies, mathematics, and geography? Check out Teacher Resources for Archeology.

Teaching with Museum Collections is object-based learning that emphasizes the links between real things – National Park Service museum collections – and America's history.

Teaching Cultural Heritage Preservation will help create undergraduate courses focusing on the preservation of minority cultural heritage.

In addition to products specifically for teachers, you may also be interested in courses that we have developed for those who manage and interpret cultural resources like archeological sites, historic places, and museum objects. These include an introduction to basic archeological methods, a Walk Through Historic Buildings to learn how to identify architectural features, and African American Heritage and Ethnography.

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National Park
Legacy

Exploring the
Real Thing

The Pig War

Did You Know?
National park museum collections include 32.7 million archeological, 3.5 million historical, 2.2 million biological, 404,000 paleontological, 75,000 geological, and 24,000 ethnological objects and specimens, and 76.9 million archival and manuscript items.