About This Lesson This lesson is based on the National Register
of Historic Places registration file, "Columbus Park" (with
photographs). It was produced in collaboration with the National
Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative. Julia Sniderman
Bachrach, Preservation Planning Supervisor, Chicago Park
District, and Jo Ann Nathan, Director, Jens Jensen Legacy
Project, wrote Columbus Park: The Prairie Idealized. Jean West,
education consultant, and the Teaching with Historic Places
staff edited the lesson plan. TwHP is sponsored, in part, by the
Cultural Resources Training Initiative and Parks as Classrooms
programs of the National Park Service. This lesson is one in a
series that brings the important stories of historic places into
the classrooms across the country. Where it fits into the
curriculum Topics: The lesson could be used to teach units on
landscape design, urbanization, and conservationism in the early
20th century, or in an interdisciplinary unit on indigenous
regional plants and leisure time co