National Cemetery Administration

Curricular Materials:

• All About Veterans (Kindergarten)
• What is a Veteran? (Kindergarten and 1st Grade)
• Discovering our Veterans: Carving their Stories out of Primary Sources (4th Grade)
• English Language Arts Writing Practice – Lives and Legacies of US Veterans: Teacher Packet (4th and 5th Grades)
• English Language Arts Writing Prompt – Jewish Americans in World War II (4th and 5th Grades)
• English Language Arts Writing Prompt – Italian American Veterans (4th and 5th Grades)
• Reading and Presenting Biographies (4th and 5th Grades)
• Discovering our Veterans and their Relation to France (5th Grade)
• Taking Care of U.S. Veterans: Student Packet (4th – 8th Grades)
• Taking Care of U.S. Veterans: Teacher Packet (4th – 8th Grades)
• How do Historians Create a Story? (9th – 12th Grades)
• The Greatest Sacrifice (11th Grades)

Grade-Leveled Biography Resources:

• Elementary School
• Middle School
• High School

Veteran Biography Packet Resources:

Virtual Tour:

The file linked below contains color photographs of each of the 100+ grave markers corresponding to the biographies of Florida National Cemetery veterans on this website. To create a virtual tour of the cemetery for your classroom, print whichever subset of pages match your lesson goals. If you print them in color, the images will allow you to use the augmented reality app to access the biographies. If printed in black and white, you may use the QR codes to access the biographies.

• Virtual Tour Images – Surnames A – K
• Virtual Tour Images – Surnames L – Z
• Augmented Reality Guide

Branches of the Military Lesson Plan:

• Branches of the Military Lesson Plan
• Branches of the Military PowerPoint
• Rubric for Branches of Military Speech

Ellsworth Lesson Plan:

• Ellsworth Timeline Lesson Plan 1 & 2
• Richard E. Ellsworth PowerPoint

Francis Case Unit Plan:

• Francis Checklist for Newspaper Production
• Francis Case Lesson 2 Branches of the Military
• Francis Case Lesson 3 Mock Town Hall
• Francis Case PowerPoint
• Francis H. Case Lesson 4 Classroom Newspaper
• Introducing Francis Case Lesson 1
• Leland Case South Dakota Magazine Aug 2017

National Cemeteries Lesson Plan:

• Black Hills National Cemetery Lesson PowerPoint
• Veteran Burials at the National Cemetery Lesson Plan

POW Letter Writing Unit:

• Bywater Letter
• Group ELA and Social Studies Lesson Plan Vietnam Letter
• Veteran Biography Letter Lesson 2

Primary and Secondary Sources Unit:

• Daniel Sullivan Biography
• Social Studies Unit Lesson 1, 2 and 3

Rosebud Cemetery Unit:

• Anthem Checklist
• Anthem Lesson Plan
• Anthem Rubric
• Final Presentation Rubric
• Flag Song
• Flow Chart
• Kahoot Rosebud History
• Lesson Plan 2: Rosebud History
• Rosebud History
• Sicangu Akicita Owicahe Tribal Veterans Cemetery Unit Plan

Sam DeCory Lesson Plan:

• Biography Research Handout
• Biography Rubric
• Sam DeCory Biography Final
• Sam DeCory Biography Lesson Plan 1
• Sam DeCory Note Taking Guide
• Samuel DeCory Biography Lesson Plan 2

Soldier Detective Lesson Plan:

• Soldier Detective Lesson Plan

South Dakota History:

• South Dakota History Unit Lessons One Through Five

Symbols Lesson Plans:

• Emblems at National Cemeteries
• State Symbols Writing Assignment
• Symbol Lesson Plan
• Symbols Lesson 1 PowerPoint
• Symbols Lesson 2 PowerPoint

Women in Military:

• Image Resources For Women in Military Lesson Plan
• Women in the Military

World War II Lesson Plan Unit:

• World War II Lesson Plans