To better understand the role of archeology in learning history, Teaching with Historic Places posted on the web the following complete lesson plans. Created by National Park Service interpreters, preservation professionals, and educators, these lessons are free and ready for immediate classroom use by students in history and social studies classes.

• At a Crossroads: The King of Prussia Inn
  Learn how transportation routes affected a local inn, how archeology revealed the inn's use over time, and how preservation efforts saved the historic site from suburban sprawl.

• Frederica: An 18th-Century Planned Community
  Discover why this British settlement was built and how it functioned as Great Britain and Spain each struggled to control land from Charleston to St. Augustine.

• Gran Quivira: A Blending of Cultures in a Pueblo Indian Village
  Examine the changing lifeways of the inhabitants of this village from the 7th century to the arrival of the Spanish in the early 17th century.

• Johnson Lake Mine: Mining for Tungsten in Nevada’s Snake Range
  Explore both how tungsten was mined and used at the turn of the 20th century and also how archeologists piece the past together from artifacts and other archeological evidence.

• Knife River: Early Village Life on the Plains
  Discover the complex culture and trading economy of the Hidatsa and Mandan tribes in North Dakota during the 18th century, as seen by anthropologists and artists.

• Mammoth Cave: Its Explorers, Miners, Archeologists, and Visitors
  Tour the world's longest cave, a geological wonder, and assess the ways it has been used and preserved as a historic resource.
  

• New Philadelphia: A Multiracial Town on the Illinois Frontier
  Learn about Free Frank McWorter and how archeology can help tell the story of the interracial town he founded in the years before the Civil War.
  

• Saugus Iron Works: Life and Work at an Early American Industrial Site
  Unearth the remains of colonial America's first fully integrated ironworks, and consider what reconstruction of the site reveals about daily life for some early European settlers.

• The Spanish Treasure Fleets of 1715 and 1733: Disasters Strike at Sea
  Learn how Spain established a New World empire based on collecting precious metals and goods from the Americas.
  La versión en español Las flotas españolas de 1715 y 1733: Desastres en el mar

• Tonto National Monument: Saving a National Treasure
  Learn about one of the nation’s most important conservation laws--the Antiquities Act of 1906--and how its passage preserved important cultural sites such as Tonto National Monument, which preserves remnants of the Salado culture prior to European contact.