Participant's Guide to the
Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute
in Early American History
2008

Lesson Plans

As part of their participation in the Institute, many participants are required to develop an original lesson based on historical information and teaching techniques learned during their time at the Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute. If you are responsible for creating a lesson, the curriculum should follow the model lesson plan (pdf file) format distributed on the final day (the model lesson plan can also be found on your CD-ROM). Remember to include primary sources in your teaching strategy. Submit an original lesson plan in hard copy or through e-mail by March 1, 2009, to Tab Broyles Director of Teacher Programs and Outreach Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Education Outreach P.O. Box 1776 Williamsburg, VA 23187-1776 tbroyles@cwf.org

If you submit a lesson plan, Colonial Williamsburg staff members will review the lesson for historical accuracy, uniqueness, and creativity (remember to include primary sources). If your lesson plan is selected for publication, either in its entirety or in collaboration with other lesson plans on the same topic, you will be given full credit for the lesson and will receive a final copy upon publication. The published lesson plans are available for purchase at the Learning Resource Center to further extend the Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute to teachers across the United States. Some lessons may be included on our Web site as examples of how to successfully use the materials and content provided by Colonial Williamsburg.

Even if you are not required to submit a lesson, we hope you will participate by sending us copies of your successful lessons, projects, pictures, and/or student samples. Many samples provided to us are used for demonstrations to donors, curriculum writers, and other teachers to illustrate what participants learn while at the Teacher Institute.