Teach It!

Providing free education materials for teachers, students, and lifelong learners, the National Park Service offers tools such as the Teaching with Historic Places program and the Teacher's Portal. The Teaching with Historic Places Program offers free, online lesson plans featuring places listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Featured Lesson Plans

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  Colonel Young's Protest Ride

  Learn about Colonel Charles Young was the highest-ranking African American Army officer in 1918.

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  The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House

  Learn about Mary McLeod Bethune and how she promoted political and social change for African American women.

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  The Mary Ann Shadd Cary House

  Follow the footsteps a free African American woman who defied an oppressive culture and broke barriers in education.