Historic Preservation Lesson Plans

Students view a video of Colonial House, a reality series where people lived according to the standards of European immigrants to the U.S. in 1628. In this colonial history lesson, students research changes in geographic areas over time and share their findings with the class. Students take notes, create a timeline of events and write a paragraph synthesizing their findings.

Third graders explore the structural composition of buildings and houses. For this math lesson, 3rd graders explain how architecture is related to mathematics. They create a blueprint of a structure with at least three different spaces.

Young scholars examine the impact of segregation on the quality of education available to African Americans. They research the history of their own school, investigate philanthropists, and interview former students of their own school.

Students discuss why attitudes toward fossil fuel use and alternative energy sources may change over the next 50 years. They discuss the types of alternative energy sources that are currently under research, particularly for use in cars.

Learners examine alternative energy. In this research based instructional activity, students study alternative energy and how it will influence transportation in the future. They will write a report and give an oral presentation of their findings.

Students research the history of a home, including ownership titles, land grants, etc, in order to determine how homes can serve as a vehicle for the study of history. They Create a display of the styles and changes that the house has gone through.

Learners read, process and interpret statistical profiles from 30 different countries. They create bar graphs to compare per capita income and commercial energy use per capita. The make double bar graphs to compare mean years of school, female vs. male.

Students, after listening to "Agatha's Feather Bed" by Carman Deedy read to them, observe samples of natural resources being pulled out of a globe with a hole in it (examples of locally recyclable materials). They brainstorm other materials in their community that can be reused or recycled. In addition, they participate in the recycling relay race.

Young scholars use this interactive to show the importance of recycling as well as how to recycle, what to recycle, how to identify household hazardous materials and proper disposal of HHM's. Pupils play three different interactive games about recycling.

Students consider how technology impacted American conflicts. In this technological advances lesson, students read, "The Changing Face of War," and then describe how technology made differences in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam Conflict, and the Persian Gulf War.