Last updated: March 7, 2018
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Marking New Beginnings by 'Teaching with Historic Places'
How do Americans use places to ground new beginnings and start anew?
Students can investigate this compelling question and explore many more essential ones with historic places found in the National Park Service and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Browse the featured activities below or dive deep into the Teaching with Historic Places hub to access a variety of place-based educators' tools.
Students can investigate this compelling question and explore many more essential ones with historic places found in the National Park Service and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Browse the featured activities below or dive deep into the Teaching with Historic Places hub to access a variety of place-based educators' tools.
Teach with Historic Places
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Discover Early Asian Immigrants' HavensChinese and Japanese towns like California's Locke and Walnut Grove provided immigrants with old world community and New World opportunity.
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Uncover Free Frank's Pioneer TownNew Philadelphia was not a typical pioneer town. Investigate its history and founders in this lesson plan about archeology and freedom.
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Discover Adeline's Pioneer HomesteadInvestigate the history & geography of American pioneer Adeline Hornbek, a widow who bucked tradition to claim western land in the 1800s.
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Identify Immigrant LandscapesImmigrants in the United States found new sites to put down roots and call "home." Study their experiences through historic places.
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Learn from a Frontier School HouseThe red brick school teaches visitors the lesson that one-room schools in the American West were community centers as well as classrooms.
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Discover the Mary Ann Shadd Cary House19th century activist, journalist, and lawyer Mary Ann Shadd Cary worked to bring new opportunities for African Americans freedom seekers.