How can I get my students even more engaged during our trip to Boston?

Boston is the perfect place to explore science, American history, and art in more depth.

Many of the sites that you will visit in Boston have developed lesson plans to begin engagement in the classroom. Provide a deeper appreciation for the places you will visit by exploring a focus topic prior to the trip.

Boston Lesson Plans

Freedom Trail Educational Resources:

  1. Mission US –  Offical Web Game

Massachusetts Historical Society Lesson Plans, Topics Include:

  1. The Adams Family of Massachusetts: A Legacy of Justice in Action
  2. Adams Family Foreign Policy: Letters and Diaries from Europe
  3. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the Birth of Party Politics in America
  4. Abigail Adams, the Writer: “My pen is always freer than my tongue”
  5. John Adams’s Views on Citizenship: Lessons for Contemporary America
  6. John Quincy Adams: One President’s Adolescence
  7. Abigail’s War: The American Revolution through the Eyes of Abigail Adams
  8. Johnny Tremain and the Members of the Long-Room Club
  9. From Tea to Shining Sea: A Primary Document-Based Unit on the Boston Tea Party
  10. John and Abigail Adams in Times of Change: the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Smallpox Epidemic during the American Revolution
  11. The Siege of Boston: A Document-Based Lesson
  12. Creative Collaborators and Communicators: The Abolitionists and their Propaganda
  13. Chief Justice William Cushing and the Abolition of Slavery
  14. Slavery in Massachusetts, 1630-1860
  15. Boston as the Athens of America
  16. Deviancy and Reform in Nineteenth-Century America
  17. The Massachusetts Civil War Experience
  18. Massachusetts Women and the Civil War

 National Historical Parks Lesson Plans, Topics Include:

  1. The Emerald Necklace: Boston’s Green Connection
  2. The Battle of Bunker Hill: Now We Are at War
  3. Embattled Farmers and the Shot Heard Round the World: The Battles of Lexington and Concord.
  4. Birthplace of John F. Kennedy: Home of the Boy Who Would Be President
  5. Through a Mother’s Eyes, Rose Kennedy in Brookline
  6. Mount Auburn Cemetery: A New American Landscape
  7. Boston’s Arnold Arboretum: A Place for Study and Recreation
  8. Saugus Iron Works: Life and Work at an Early American Industrial Site

Museum of Science, Boston Educational Resources: 

  1. Current Science & Technology Podcast

USS Constitution Museum Lesson Plans, Topics Include:

  1. Making a Compass and Magnetic Attraction
  2. Sailors Telling Time: Half House Glass
  3. Ship’s Surgeon: Illness and Injury aboard Naval Ships
  4. Medicine in 1812
  5. Working Music: Sea Chanties & Call-and-Response Poetry
  6. Build a Simple Sextant
  7. Reloading Relay
  8. Marines on the Maintop: How High is that Similar Triangle?
  9. Simple Machines on Constitution
  10. Coopers on Constitution: Building a Barrel
  11. Calculating Area and Volume: How Much Can Constitution Hold?
  12. Gun Drill Team Building
  13. How to be a Great Navigator
  14. Build a Simple Sextanthttps://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Lesson-Plan-Science-Build-a-Simple-Sextant-NASA.pdf
  15. Ship’s Super Superstitions & Shakespeare

Boston National Historical Park Teacher Resources:  

Interactive Maps

  1. The Atlantic Empire of Peter Faneuil
  2. The Siege of Boston
  3. Patriots of Color Enlistment
  4. Mapping Women’s Suffrage in Boston

 Activities

  1. Signal Flags
  2. Traitor! Decoding Benjamin Church
  3. Make Your Own Monument

Plimouth Plantation, Lesson Plans and Activity Topics Include:

  1. Unit 1: Patuxet
  2. Unite 2: Leadership & Diplomacy
  3. Unit 3: Growing Corn in Plymouth and Patuxet
  4. Unit 4: 1621 Harvest Celebration
  5. Unit 5: Giving Thanks
  6. Thanksgiving Interactive:You Are the Historian
  7. Talk Like a Pilgrim
  8. Riddles
  9. Podcast: Interwoven

New England Aquarium Lesson Plans, Topics Include:

  1. Adaption & Survival
  2. Dive Deeper
  3. Giant Ocean Tank Visit
  4. Giant Ocean Tank Census
  5. Follow One Animal
  6. Invent an Invertebrate
  7. New England Marine Animal Adaptations
  8. Penguin Adaptations
  9. Penguin Observations
  10. Seal Observations
  11. Secret Animal
  12. Shark Scientist Tools
  13. Shark Observation
  14. Climate Change and the Ocean
  15. Concept Learning: Salt Marsh
  16. Fishworks
  17. New England Marine Animal Adaptations
  18. Engineering Ocean Currents

John F. Kennedy Library Lesson Plans, Topics Include: 

  1.  Political Debates: Advising a Candidate
  2. Analyzing the Rhetoric of JFK’s Inaugural Address
  3. Why Choose the Moon
  4. The President’s Desk: A Resource Guide for Teachers, Grades 4-12
  5. 1963: The Struggle for Civil Rights
  6. A President’s Day
  7. Integrating Ole Miss
  8. Leaders in the Struggle for Civil Rights
  9. Americans in Space
  10. A Night to Remember
  11. Breaking Gender Barriers: A Female Space Trainee Advocates for Women in Space
  12. Examining The Equal Pay Act of 1963
  13. Fighting for Equality: Esther Peterson Leads the Way on Equal Pay

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