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Park Educational Programs include Ranger programs, Homeschool Days,
Traveling Trunks and more
Gettysburg National Military Park’s educational offerings include fall and
spring ranger field programs, as well as a December Teacher Workshop
series, Winter Homeschool Days and Traveling Trunks that can be shipped to
any school. Each year these programs serve approximately 18,000 schools
students, coast to coast. This year, for the first time, reservations for
these educational offerings are all available electronically. To get
started planning for the best field trip ever go to Gettysburg National
Military Park’s website www.nps.gov/gett/forteachers.
Sample Ranger Field Programs for School Groups:
Determination & the 15th Alabama Infantry - Climb Big Round Top and attack
Little Round Top after a forced march, and without any water! This program
illustrates the strength, stamina and determination of these Confederate
infantrymen, and then explores how students can apply these lessons to
their lives.
Caring for the Wounded - Students follow the path of a soldier from camp to
campaign to battle to first aid to transport to field hospital and finally
to recovery. Activities include role-play, walking, carrying, and some
lifting and climbing.
Life of a Civil War Soldier - Students participate in activities that
present the training, equipment, life and feelings of the volunteer
soldiers. This entails walking, running, standing and sitting.
“Unfinished Work”: Soldiers’ Cemetery & the Gettysburg Address - Students
work in small groups simulating the process of soldier identification
following the battle. They then read the letters of soldiers buried in the
cemetery, graveside, and apply them to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address – a
unique and emotional primary source experience.
The park will also offer Winter Homeschool Days, a new opportunity this
year that can be reserved now too. Winter Homeschool Days include a
hands-on history fair and other opportunities for homeschool families and
co-ops. Additional educational programs include: Workshops for Teachers
in early December, providing full days of continuing education for Civil
War Science, Language Arts, and a Soldier Camp just for teachers; and
Traveling Trunks - on the life of the Civil War Soldier can be reserved
throughout the school year and shipped to schools all across the country.
The “Best Field Trip Ever! Planning Kit” is on the park's website, with a
coordinating pdf document that provides all education program options,
planning tools, chaperone information and everything else needed for a
successful Gettysburg field trip - including reservation instructions for
the park’s Museum, Film and Cyclorama painting programs, and Licensed
Battlefield Guide tours.
Traveling Trunks and more
Gettysburg National Military Park’s educational offerings include fall and
spring ranger field programs, as well as a December Teacher Workshop
series, Winter Homeschool Days and Traveling Trunks that can be shipped to
any school. Each year these programs serve approximately 18,000 schools
students, coast to coast. This year, for the first time, reservations for
these educational offerings are all available electronically. To get
started planning for the best field trip ever go to Gettysburg National
Military Park’s website www.nps.gov/gett/forteachers.
Sample Ranger Field Programs for School Groups:
Determination & the 15th Alabama Infantry - Climb Big Round Top and attack
Little Round Top after a forced march, and without any water! This program
illustrates the strength, stamina and determination of these Confederate
infantrymen, and then explores how students can apply these lessons to
their lives.
Caring for the Wounded - Students follow the path of a soldier from camp to
campaign to battle to first aid to transport to field hospital and finally
to recovery. Activities include role-play, walking, carrying, and some
lifting and climbing.
Life of a Civil War Soldier - Students participate in activities that
present the training, equipment, life and feelings of the volunteer
soldiers. This entails walking, running, standing and sitting.
“Unfinished Work”: Soldiers’ Cemetery & the Gettysburg Address - Students
work in small groups simulating the process of soldier identification
following the battle. They then read the letters of soldiers buried in the
cemetery, graveside, and apply them to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address – a
unique and emotional primary source experience.
The park will also offer Winter Homeschool Days, a new opportunity this
year that can be reserved now too. Winter Homeschool Days include a
hands-on history fair and other opportunities for homeschool families and
co-ops. Additional educational programs include: Workshops for Teachers
in early December, providing full days of continuing education for Civil
War Science, Language Arts, and a Soldier Camp just for teachers; and
Traveling Trunks - on the life of the Civil War Soldier can be reserved
throughout the school year and shipped to schools all across the country.
The “Best Field Trip Ever! Planning Kit” is on the park's website, with a
coordinating pdf document that provides all education program options,
planning tools, chaperone information and everything else needed for a
successful Gettysburg field trip - including reservation instructions for
the park’s Museum, Film and Cyclorama painting programs, and Licensed
Battlefield Guide tours.