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Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Curriculum Materials
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Teaching with Historic Places
Little Kinnakeet Lifesaving Station: Home to Unsung Heroes Lesson Plan
The Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP)program uses properties listed in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. Although designed for middle school students learning history, social studies, geography, and other subjects, TwHP lessons are easily adaptable from upper elementary through high school, and even for college courses. Each lesson includes maps, readings, and photographs, all of which are accompanied by questions. At the end, activities pull together the ideas students have just covered and require them to initiate their own research.
Each TwHP lesson plan links both to relevant United States History Standards for Grades 5-12 and also to relevant Performance Expectations for Middle Grades from the national Curriculum Standards for Social Studies.
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![This artist's rendering shows the U.S.S. Monitor foundering in a storm off of Cape Hatteras in December 1862. This artist's rendering shows the U.S.S. Monitor foundering in a storm off of Cape Hatteras in December 1862.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090508104908im_/http://www.nps.gov/ser/customcf/apps/CMS_HandF/Pictures/CAHA_monitor.jpg) |
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Did You Know?
The U.S.S. Monitor sank off Cape Hatteras during a storm in December 1862. The wreck's location was a mystery until 1973 when a research vessel found the ship 16 miles off the cape in 230 feet of water.
In 1975, the Monitor was named the nation’s first National Marine Sanctuary.
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Last Updated: November 03, 2008 at 09:54 EST |