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Colonial Williamsburg offers a multitude of opportunities for educators
and students. You can visit us in our living history museum, in your classroom,
or at home. Among the opportunities are:
Learning Resource Center: Located next to the Colonial Williamsburg Visitor Center Bookstore, the Learning Resource Center offers a centralized location to obtain teaching materials. Some items available for sale at the center include: lesson plans, videos, children's literature, teacher's resource books, and reproduction artifacts and documents such as the Virginia Gazette, the Virginia Declaration of Rights and facsimile eighteenth-century coins. In the computer lab, visitors have access to computers for exploring Colonial Williamsburg's web site and other history-related Internet sites. Visitors can also preview video tapes on electronic field trips and other Colonial Williamsburg programs. For more information send an email to the Learning Resource Center.
Classroom-Tested Lesson Plans Colonial Williamsburg has developed several interdisciplinary lesson plans for use in classrooms. Some of these plans are available on this web site:
Choosing 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
For further information, send email to the Learning Resource Center.
Books, Videos, and Colonial Objects for Sale: You and your students may be interested in books and videos about the colonial experience. Or you may want a tin whistle, a three-cornered hat, quill pen, or some other memento from Colonial Williamsburg to use as an object in a lesson. For information, please call 757-565-8328.
Family Visits: Families, too, can have fun and learn while at Colonial Williamsburg. You can cast your vote for revolution or allegiance to Britain. Join the militia. Meet Thomas Jefferson. Eat in a colonial tavern. Visit a slave quarter. Colonial Williamsburg gives families the chance not only to see but also to experience daily life and the choices faced on the eve of the American revolution. Ask for more information about planning your vacation or call 1-800-HISTORY to ask for a free Colonial Williamsburg Vacation Planner.
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