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- 6th - 8th
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Students define eighteenth-century legal terms, depict an eighteenth-century case through role-play and explain the justice system in eighteenth-century Virginia. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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Students identify various forms of eighteenth-century travel and make generalizations about the people that utilized eighteenth-century modes of transportation. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students pretend to be 18th century shopkeepers or trades people and create signs representing their shops or trades. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students identify the role of the weather vane in colonial America, and determine the accuracy of almanacs in predicting the weather. students create an 18th century weathervane design. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students research 18th century clothing, emphasizing the mob cap, and why it was worn. They analyze radius, diameter, and circumference, and construct their own mob cap out of paper. Full Review »
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- 4th - 12th
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Students collect, categorize, analyze and present data, and participate in interpersonal and group activities. They discuss the people, places and events that are part of his or her community history by studying and visiting local graveyards. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 12th
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Students examine how to gather historical information on visits to museums or historical sites. They relate what has been learned at the museum to what has been discussed in class, and present the results to the class. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 8th
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Students discuss colonial gardening in the 18th century, and collect data using research materials. They create a simple garden design with appropriately titled and labeled data. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students discuss the role of music and dance in 18th century Virginia. They take part in the performance of an 18th century dance, and compare dance as a part of the culture in colonial times and as a part of today's culture. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 5th
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Students investigate fence building in Colonial iamsburg. They consider uses for fences in the 18th century and read a fence building procedure written by Tomas Jefferson. They build fence models and write an essay on their research. Full Review »

