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Teacher Resources
: Teacher Institute
: Goals
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROGRAM:
The Elementary School sessions provide participants with the opportunity to
explore and experience daily life in eighteenth-century Virginia. During the
week teachers will:
- Identify and analyze significant seventeenth- and eighteenth-century
economic, political, and social events that led to independence.
- Explore how Native American, European, and African interactions shaped
and defined the American character.
- Use primary sources to explore daily life in colonial Virginia.
· Investigate the lifestyles of various social levels in eighteenth-century
America, including the gentry, middling sort, tradespeople, merchants, soldiers,
women, and slaves.
- Use technology resources, including satellite broadcasts and the Internet,
to learn about the events leading to the American Revolution.
MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM:
The Middle/High School sessions investigate seventeenth- and eighteenth-century
political ideas and events that led to the American Revolution and development
of our United States Constitution. During the week, teachers will:
- Identify and analyze significant events that led to independence and
continue to shape and define our nation today.
- Investigate how British economic, political, and social institutions
in Virginia were valued and adapted after the American Revolution.
- Explore the challenges facing our founding fathers as they developed
the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
- Examine and compare eighteenth-century and twenty-first-century rights
and responsibilities of citizenship.
- Use primary sources and technology resources to learn about events
leading to the American Revolution and their effects on the daily lives of individuals
from various social levels.
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