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postviewing instructional activities

 

  • Complete the “What I Learned” of the K-W-L chart.
  • Encourage students to make comparisons between their lives and George Washington’s life. Students may use a Venn diagram.
  • Complete a web of farm jobs, showing how the jobs are connected and dependent on each other.
  • Create a class ABC book for things learned about George Washington’s farm.
  • Discuss the economic choices George Washington needed to make on the farm. Talk about economic choices students and their families make today. Incorporate economic vocabulary specific to the grade level.
  • Make a T-chart showing the goods and services used on the farm.
  • Create a bird’s eye view map of George Washington’s farm. Include the sixteen-sided barn, the garden, the paths, and the river. Discuss the cardinal directions.
  • Create an acrostic poem about George Washington.
  • Have students discuss how the economics of Mount Vernon’s farm compare with the economics of the ancient cultures they have studied.