Colonial Williamsburg provides all participants with numerous teaching aids: facsimile primary
source documents, artifacts, slides, videos, classroom-tested lesson plans, and other materials.
All these resources greatly enrich their classroom presentations and make learning much more
meaningful for the students.
For example, all Elementary School participants typically receive the following materials
(Note: 1)specific lesson materials are subject to change/revision from year to year, and 2)Middle
School and High School lessons vary to meet their level-specific curriculum needs):
Lesson Plans:
"African-Americans in Eighteenth-Century Virginia"
"Clues from the Past"
"Eighteenth-Century Clothing"
"Eighteenth-Century Dance and Deportment in Eighteenth-Century Virginia"
"Election Day in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg"
"Families Then and Now"
"From Reeds to Riches"
"Hominy for Supper"
"Indentured Servants"
"Jamestown Teacher Resource Packet"
"Order in the Court"
"Rights and Controversies in the Changing worlds of 1776"
"Survival! Citizens and Soldiers in Yorktown Siege"
"The Runaway: A Teacher's Guide to using the video"
"Through Different Eyes Picture Book Lesson"
"Through Different Eyes Biography Lesson"
"Through Different Eyes: Biographies of Eighteenth-Century Residents "
"Trans-Atlantic Trade"
"Under African Skies: A Teacher's Guide to African-American Storytelling"
"Virginia's Colonial Economy"
"Yorktown Teacher Resources Packet"
"Your Most Obedient Servant"
Resources (all levels):
Rediscovering Jamestown Fort poster Jamestown Rediscovery III (book) Traite de Negres (slide) The Official Guide to Colonial Williamsburg (book)
Grand Union flag
Choosing Revolution poster
Blank Journal The Runaway (video)
Powdered ink packet
Quill pen
Brass seal
Sealing wax Slavery in the Colonial Chesapeake (book) Under African Skies (cassette tape)
Virginia Gazette Worlds of Experience (book)
Yorktown Siege map
Additional teacher resource materials are provided by the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation and
by the Colonial National Historical Park.
Historic Triangle