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George Washington Birthplace National Monument
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How Math and Science Changed George Washington’s Life
6th - 7th grade
35 Students Maximum
Length: 2 hours
Students become 18th century land surveyors, using the math, geometry, and science skills they learn in class to conduct a survey at the park using historical instruments.
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The Washingtons in Chesapeake History
3rd - 5th grade
65 Students Maximum 
Program Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Students travel back in time with hands-on activities in the tobacco fields and balancing the merchant ledger to experience Colonial Virginia, life on a tobacco plantation and George Washington.
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You Can Be Like George Washington
2nd - 5th grade
65 Students Maximum 
Program Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Students learn character education traits through George Washington’s own experiences as a young man facing some of the same problems as young people today.
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When George Washington Was a Child
Kindergarten - 2nd grade
65 Students Maximum 
Program Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Students engage in hands-on activities as they compare everyday colonial life in Virginia with their lives today at Washington’s birthsite.
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Chesapeake Bay Living Map
2nd - 4th grade
35 Students Maximum
Presented in the school classroom
Hands-on activities with a large format canvas floor map help students understand how natural resources affect cultural resources.
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Coming Soon!
How Most of the Plantation Lived: Slavery at the Washingtons' Farm              

3rd - 5th grade
35 Students Maximum
Students explore daily life on a colonial tobacco plantation through hands-on activities in the tobacco field and African instruments and other lifeways.
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Part of an iron plate of a 1772 produced Hopewell stove.  

Did You Know?
While England passed laws to keep her American colonies from becoming economically independent, by 1775 no fewer than 22 furnaces (including Hopewell Furnace) operated in Southeastern Pennsylvania alone.

Last Updated: November 20, 2008 at 10:00 EST