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.

HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM:

The High School session investigates 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.