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Toolkits and Curricula

Find lesson plans, toolkits, and guides for replicating historical preservation projects in your communities.

Arkansas Historic Preservation Program Lesson Plans
http://www.arkansaspreservation.org/preservation-services/youth-education/#plans

Cemetery Preservation: A Replication Guide for School Based Service-Learning
This is a replication guide for schools that are implementing a service-learning program. A program to restore and preserve a historic cemetery is described, there is a timeline of activities for administrators, and a collection of lesson plans with activity and form templates to replicate in a program. All programs meet the seven best practices of school-based service-learning and the standards for credit-bearing service-learning in Massachusetts. All programs are replicable and modifiable to different grade and ability levels. Each program is an example of service-learning that is infused into the curriculum over a sustained period of time and provides teachers with an opportunity to integrate performance-based assessment, Dimensions of Service, and other education reform initiatives with service to the community and citizenship education.
http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=3363

The Heritage Education Network
This website contains ideas, lesson plans, activities, sources of information and links for heritage education.
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~chankins/THEN/

National History Education Clearinghouse
This website contains lesson plans and resources for history and social science teachers.
http://teachinghistory.org/

Teaching with Historic Places
TwHP uses properties listed in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. It has created a variety of products and activities that help teachers bring historic places into the classroom.
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/

Teaching with Historic Places. Lesson plan index: History Standards
http://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/standards.htm

Teaching with Historic Places. Lesson plan index: Social Studies Standards
http://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/ssstandards.htm