Lesson Plans

Colonial Williamsburg offers a large selection of lesson plans for use in the classroom. These lesson plans will help prepare your group to better understand colonial Williamsburg’s role in American history and the people who lived there in the 18th century.

Fictional Character Scenarios

• A Day at the Market
• A Day for Choosing Revolution

Revolution

• Colonial Reaction to the Stamp Act
• Eighteenth-Century and Twentieth-Century Forms of Resistance
• A Family disrupted--the Randolph Family and the Coming American Revolution

Miscellaneous

• Acrimony in Bruton Parish Church
• Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding Slavery in the Colonial Period
• A Colonial Christmas in Williamsburg
• Colonial Home Remedies
• Don't Fence Me In
• Eighteenth-Century Music and Dance
• Gardening in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg
• Getting Into History: Visiting Museums - a Shared Experience
• History Comes Alive in the Graveyard
• Mathematics with a Mob Cap
• Predicting Weather in the Eighteenth Century
• Signs of the Times
• Travel in the 18th Century
• The Trial of Abigail Briggs
• The Two Williamsburgs