Lives Bound Together Suggested Activities
These scaffolded Activity Suggestion Sheets give quick, grab-and-go activities for you to implement into lesson plans. The sheets cover the lives and stories of the people enslaved at Mount Vernon.
These sheets were created by 2024 LifeGuard Teacher Fellows Kristin Pankey and Andrea Thompson.
Cookbook Scavenger Hunt
Due to modern technology and trade, it is possible in the United States to get most foods year-round. However, in the eighteenth century, people were limited based on when food could be harvested or caught. This activity compares modern recipes to seasonal eating in the eighteenth century.
Rules of Civility Matching
As a teenager, George Washington copied the Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company in Conversation to practice his penmanship. The 110 rules covered many of the social graces of the time period. We have many of the same rules in society today. Complete this matching activity to learn some of the rules' modern equivalent.
Artifact Observations
Use this helpful notetaking sheet to have young students record observations about an archaeological artifact.