Acadia
News of the Acadians
Overview
Using the Acadia National Park quarter, the students will visit the Acadia National Park website to focus on Acadia's historical development. Student groups will create a timeline of the history of Acadia, concentrating on the main people, events, and trends in its development (such as the native population, French settlement, and fur trading). Using the timelines, each group will create a newspaper depicting one event or time period. Multimedia presentations or printed newspapers will be presented to the entire class.
Worksheets
Acadia National Park Quarter Reverse
United States Map
Timeline of Acadian History
Download/View
The file below contains the lesson plan and all the associated worksheets. When you click on the link, the PDF will open if you have the free Acrobat Reader plug-in installed. Depending on your browser's settings, the lesson plan will open in this tab, in a new tab, or in a new window.
You can then click "File" in the top menu and "Save As" to save the PDF to your hard drive or click "File" and then "Print" to print all the pages on your printer.
National Standards
Social Studies (American History)
National Council for the Social Studies (www.socialstudies.org)
- Culture
- Time, Continuity, and Change
- People, Places, and Environment
