Events for Homeschool Families
Learn more about our resources for home educators, upcoming events for homeschoolers, and other materials.
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Virtual Tour
Discover Washington's home with the Mount Vernon Virtual Tour! The Virtual Tour is completely free, can be accessed on any laptop or mobile device. Use the Virtual Tour to learn more about the rooms, objects, and lives of the people living and laboring on the plantation.
Virtual Tour Resources
Lives Bound Together
Lives Bound Together: Slavery at George Washington's Mount Vernon explores the personal stories of the people enslaved at Mount Vernon while providing insight into George Washington's evolving opposition to slavery
Lives Bound Together
Primary Source Collections
Access our growing collection of online primary source material. These sources range from archeological artifacts to interactive documents and objects!
Access the Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
In search of articles, facts, and more information on George Washington? Check out our Secondary Sources page!
Discover Sources
Lesson Plans
Mount Vernon’s Resources for Teachers contains lesson plans developed by master teachers, including graduates of the George Washington Teacher Institute, as well as Mount Vernon educators and historians.
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Be Washington
Be Washington is a first-person, fifteen minute interactive leadership experience. Come face to face with challenges that George Washington confronted as commander in chief or president in four key scenarios. Host a game and control the pace of individuals, or play as a single player. This game is COPPA compliant.
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Situation Room Information
Set in 18th century America, Washington's Cabinet puts participants in leadership roles of people who were integral in the foreign policy decisions made in 1790s Philadelphia and determine the fate of the young United States.
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Home Educators Advisory Group
The Learning Department is seeking home educators from Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., to volunteer in the first inaugural Home Educators Advisory Group. This group will meet approximately once a month to discuss current and future homeschool programs and provide feedback on other Mount Vernon projects.
If you are interested, please fill out the following form. The form will close on October 31 and advisors will be chosen in late November/early December. Meetings will begin in January 2025 based on advisory availability.