Archeology (Teaching with Historic Places)

Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) uses historic places in National Parks and in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. TwHP has created a variety of products and activities that help teachers bring historic places into the classroom.

Here you’ll find place-based educational resources relating to archeology. Discover more resources at the Teaching with Historic Places homepage.

Featured Lesson Plans

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  Spanish Treasure Fleets

  Learn how Spain established a New World empire based on collecting precious metals and goods from the Americas.

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  New Philadelphia: A Multiracial Town

  Learn about Free Frank McWorter and how archeology can help tell the story of the interracial town he founded years before the Civil War.

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  African Burial Ground National Monument

  Dig through centuries of Manhattan concrete to uncover a cemetery linked to the African Diaspora, spirituality and how we honor our origins.