• Collage of images, including Maggie Walker, her home, and the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank

    Maggie L Walker

    National Historic Site Virginia

Curriculum Materials

Pennies and Nickels to Dollars

Target Audience: 2nd and 3rd grade

Ties to Virginia Standards of Learning:
History and Social Science: 2.3, 2.6, 2.10, 2.12, 3.7, 3.8, 3.12
English: 2.2, 2.8, 2.11, 3.1

Curriculum:

Video and Sequencing Activity: Pre-visit

Traveling Trunk

Make a Bank: Post visit follow-up activity

Saving Pennies: Post visit follow-up activity

 

Walker's Lasting Legacy

Target Audience: 4th and 5th grade

Ties to Virginia Standards of Learning:
History and Social Science: VS.1, VS.9, USI.1
English: 4.1, 4.2, 4.5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.6, 5.8

Curriculum Materials:

Eyes and Ears on Mrs. Maggie L. Walker

Mrs. Walker Teaches Children to Save

Building a Better Community 

 

 

Maggie Lena Walker, Her Life and Legacy

Target Audience: Middle and High School Students

Ties to Virginia Standards of Learning

History and Social Science: USI.1a,b,c,e,h, USI.9 f, USII.1a,b,c,d,e,h, USII.4 b,c,d,e, USII.6a,c, and USII.8.d

Post-Visit Curriculum

Did You Know?

Booker T. Washington

While Mrs. Walker is known as the first African American woman to found and be president of a bank, much of her work was in the early 20th Century Civil Rights Movement with her friends Booker T. Washington, Mary Church Terrell, and Mary McLeod Bethune.