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Students discover daily life on George Washington's plantation, Mount Vernon. In this compare and contrast instructional activity, students examine the life styles at four distinct sites at Mount Vernon to become familiar with the people, places, and objects that were part of 18th century life.
Students discuss contemporary methods of travel and the time it takes to travel to places. They use the Internet to explore 18th century travel. Students work in small group to research the amount of time it would have taken representatives of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia to travel from their home colonies and compare to the amount of time it would take by automobile.
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.
In this online interactive American history worksheet, students answer 11 multiple choice questions regarding late 17th and 18th century America. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
In this SoHo House learning journey worksheet, learners read a short history of the So Ho house and the prominent workman associated with it. They read about James Watt, William Murdoch, and Matthew Boulton.
Students engage in a long term unit concerning world theatre history. They use guided questions in order to conduct research to cover the history of theatre in different time periods. During the class the teacher lectures and the students take notes to add to internet research.
A periodic table of elements displays the elements in groups ordered by when they were discovered. Click-by-click, new elements are added, resulting in an almost up-to-date chart. In order to reinforce the idea that symbols are used in everyday life, examples of math, money, and music symbols are shown. This is a fascinating PowerPoint on the history of chemical symbols, but does not teach any chemistry concepts.
Young scholars analyze one major constitutional document and the events surrounding it. They examine primary sources (historical documents) and draw conclusions from evidence. Students write an essay and may prepare a presentation of their findings.
Young scholars gather information on the Holocaust. Using document-based questions, they evaluate the different perspectives of primary sources. They are introduced to the topic of antisemitism and its role throughout the 15th through 18th centuries.
Students investigate the history of the Moravians. They examine the Moravian community in the 18th century in the New World and compare and contrast the types of structures in 18th-century Bethlehem with those located in their own community.