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Exploring Mount Vernon
Electronic Field Trip
Sneak Preview!
Click to access the Field Trip and additional resources.
Click
to visit
the official
Mount Vernon
website
Pre-Viewing Activities:
Before your students’ field trip to Mount Vernon:
--Check out our Teachers’ Guide (click on the mouse icon at the bottom of the page) for a rundown of what will happen on the field trip itself, related standards, and suggestions for specific pre-trip and post-trip activities for your class.
--For a quick, great pre-trip activity for students of all ages, establish prior knowledge by doing a class brainstorm about George and Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, and related topics. Keep the list visible during the field trip.
--Based on class knowledge, collaborate on forming one or two solid questions that your students can ask during the field trip if they have the opportunity.
Post-Viewing Activities:
When the field trip to Mount Vernon is over:
--As a class, check through the prior knowledge list you made before the field trip. Your students can make additions and corrections based on what they learned at Mount Vernon.
--Follow up further with resources and other suggestions in the Teachers’ Guide (click on the mouse icon at the bottom of the page).
Click on
the mouse to access the full TEACHER GUIDE
Click to learn directly from the Smithsonian about this famous portrait.
Click to check out a very cool web tool that students are using to learn about me!
Post-Viewing Activities:
When the field trip to Mount Vernon is over:
--As a class, check through the prior knowledge list you made before the field trip. Your students can make additions and corrections based on what they learned at Mount Vernon.
--Follow up further with resources and other suggestions in the Teachers’ Guide (click on the mouse icon at the bottom of the page).
Click to watch video clips about life at Mt. Vernon
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