s For Students A visit to the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site and the Hoover Presidential Library-Museum fit within the framework of a number of course topics, and align neatly with both the Iowa Core Curriculum for History for grades 6-8 and the Curriculum Standards for Social Studies from the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS). Students will be able to: Relate the events of Herbert Hoover's childhood in West Branch, Iowa, that may have motivated his accomplishments and public works. Understand the daily life of a rural community in the 1870s and 1880s and connect that exper