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Teaching Resources for Your Classroom
Colonial Williamsburg offers a variety of quality instructional materials to
help you teach students about life in early America, including the following:
THE REMARKABLE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
by Cheryl Harness
The seventh picture-book biography for children that writer and illustrator Cheryl Harness has produced for National Geographic, The Remarkable Benjamin Franklin celebrates one of the nation's polymath founders on the 300th anniversary of his birth. Like Jefferson, a master in several fields-printing, optics, physics, diplomacy-Franklin started life in a far humbler station than many of the others but nonetheless wrote a large chapter of the early years of the republic. Hardcover, 48 pages. Reading level ages 4–8. $17.95. Available from Williamsburg Marketplace.
A GLORIOUS SYSTEM OF THINGS
Video
This informative video dramatization shows how early American colonists learned about important scientific discoveries. Running time 58:30 minutes. $19.95. Available from Williamsburg Marketplace.
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