On Site Programs

Young soldiers

 
Pre-K – K

outdoor programs - 45 minutes each

Participate in childhood skills of the 17th Century through chores, games, stories and role playing of the era in our re-created living history sites. Select one or both themes (45 minutes each theme).

Pre-K Foundation Blocks for Early Childhood Learning: History & Social Studies Blocks 1 – 4; Science Blocks 4, 6, 7.


Grades 1 – 5
outdoor program – one hour

People of the River:  Powhatan Indians 

Tour Arrohateck, a re-created Indian village on the James River and experience the Eastern Woodland Powhatan Indian culture -- just prior to contact – through farming, food preparation, and hunting and cultural activities. Learn about the importance of Pocahontas to both Indian and English cultures.

History & Social Sciences SOLs: 1.4, 1.6, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.7, 3.5, 3.7, 3.10, VS.1, VS.2, VS.3, VS.4, USI.3, USI.4

Success of the Citie: 1611 Citie of Henricus
outdoor program – one hour

Students will interact with early English settlers in this second successful “New World” English colony, and learn about their life and hardships. Activities demonstrating the importance of defense/martial law and of the economic tobacco trade will illustrate how settlers lived and prospered at Henricus. Historic personalities are introduced through age-appropriate government, civics, technology and economic activities.

History & Social Sciences SOLs: 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.10, 2.3, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3.3, 3.7, 3.9, 3.10, VS.1, VS.2, VS.3, VS.4, USI.1, USI.4, USI.5.

Mapping the James River
indoor program – one hour; also available as Outreach

Understand the people, places, environment, economics and history of Virginia’s James River through use of historical maps and two- and three-dimensional mapping activities. Using basic mapping skills and tools, teams build their own community on a walk-over map of the James River of the future.

History & Social Sciences SOLs: 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.3, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, VS.1, VS.2, VS.3, VS.4, USI.1, USI.2, USI.3, USI.4.

Grades 4 - 6

Voyage to Virginia
outdoor program – four hours – Henricus Historical Park & Agecroft Hall

 

This two-site program serves grades 4 – 6. Discover contrasting ways of life in both England and the Virginia Colony of the 17th Century. Student adventures begin at Agecroft Hall where they learn about the lifestyles of London’s servant classes. Indenturing themselves in hopes of finding a better way of life, students travel by “ship” to the 1611 Citie of Henricus in the “New World” where they learn to live and interact with a very different culture of native Indians. Build and protect a new community and economy while living within this Eastern Woodland environment.

History & Social Science History & Social Sciences SOLs: VS.1, VS.2, VS.4, WHII.2, WHII.4

Grades 6 - 8
People in Environment
outdoor program – 1 – 1.5 hours

From the archaeological record, follow scientists’ re-creation of how Virginia’s geography and environment contributed to the economic, social, and political lives of both native and colonial Virginians. Compare and contrast – through hands-on, team-building projects – how three different cultures (Indian, English and African) developed and interacted with in the same physical environment of 17th century Virginia.

History & Social Sciences SOLs: USII.1, CE.1, CE.9, WHI.1, SHI.2. Science SOLs: 6.7, LS.4, LS.8, LS.11, LS.12

Virginia Governments
indoor program – 1 hour; also available as Outreach

Interact with the earliest stages of Virginia government – compare and contrast Indian and Colonial laws and leaders, social duties, civic action, communal needs and economic systems of the 17th century. Through a PowerPoint presentation, role playing and debate, understand how different cultures and times produced contrasting forms of security and safety, barter and trade and rules of communal life. Understand how the development from martial law to representative government in the 1600’s would eventually lead to the American government of today.

History & Social Sciences SOLs: USII.1, CE.1, CE.2, CE.3, CE.9, WHI.1, WHI.12 Science SOLs: LS.8, LS.9, LS.11, LS.12

Grades 9 – 12
Colonial Trades
outdoor program – 1 hour

Security, farming, building, health, social needs – work with the craftsmen who helped develop this community using both trade materials and natural resources to build a colonial citie. Consider the economic and governmental goals and requirements of this early community.

History & Social Sciences SOLs: (call for more information)