About This Lesson
In this lesson, students explore how, in the 1930s, the national parks’ mission expanded to include preserving sites of historical as well as natural importance. Students will locate and categorize the 45 national historical parks, and identify the different types of events, activities, and people that they commemorate. They will decide whether adding historic sites to the national parks was a good idea, identify a potential historic site in their own community, and present a persuasive argument about why that site should become a national historic park.
