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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 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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- 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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- 9th - 12th
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Students research how childhood was depicted in art in the 17th through 19th centuries. In groups, they research pieces of art and write a paper explaining how the portrayal of students in art changed at the end of the 18th century. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students answer questions about John Smith, and also they figure out what was necessary are needed for surviival. Students are given a replica of Smith's 1612 map, they then answer questions using the map as their resource. Students may notice that the maps have a great amount of information about Virginia's Native Americans. They compare and contrast the two different maps (John Smith's map and modern day Virginia map). Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students identify and discuss characteristics of runaway slaves in 18th Century, read A Narrative of the Adventures and Escapes of Moses, select five advertisements for Virginia Runaways Digital Project to complete On the Run worksheet, and construct plan for escaping captivity. Full Review »
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- 9th - Higher Ed
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Students explore life on an 18th century southern plantation/farm as it is related not only to raising crops, but also to preparing food, making clothing, caring for animals, making soap, blacksmithing, etc. They create a timeline of scientific discoveries, inventions, and technologies from 1730 to 1802 that are related to life on a plantation/farm Full Review »
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- 2nd - 5th
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Students investigate what was involved in learning a trade in 18th century. They explore Williamsburg, Virginia by selecting a trade, researching the nature of the trade, and estimating how long it would take to learn that particular trade. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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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. Full Review »
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