Students will use media literacy skills to navigate through the perils of the land of online misinformation with the Teen Fact Checking Network, and then analyze their own social media platforms to see if they may be stuck in an echo chamber.
How Do Forces Outside Government Influence Policymaking?
The president of the United States leads the country’s foreign policy. However, presidents face many checks to their power within the government. In this multimedia resource, learn how journalism, social media, public opinion, and lobbies are all a part of American democracy and influence U.S. foreign policy.
At George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Remembering the Enslaved People Who Built America
A tour guide at Washington’s Mount Vernon estate, who is also a distant relation of an enslaved person at the Virginia estate, offers his perspective about American history, slavery and the founding fathers.
Down-Ballot Voting and the Role of Local Elections
Students will analyze the role of state and local government and the merits of candidates and ballot measures in their local elections.
Decoding Media Bias
Students will examine where people in the U.S. get their news, how news selection amplifies one’s political views, and how media organizations decide to cover stories.
Meet Richard St. George – Theatrical Performance
Developed for the Museum’s exhibit, Cost of Revolution: The Life and Death of an Irish Soldier, this 20-minute performance provides viewers with an opportunity to consider the opinions and experiences of someone who chose to fight for the British against uprisings in both North America and Ireland. Learners can also explore the evergreen online exhibit
Washington’s Field Headquarters – Virtual Tour
To win the Revolutionary War, General George Washington needed the support of thousands of people with varying skills and perspectives. Using Washington’s sleeping and office tent, which survives at the Museum of the American Revolution, and replicas of this and his other military “equipage” as its starting point, this experience explores the experience at camp
Beyond the Battlefield: A Virtual Field Trip
Museums are great places to learn about life during the American Revolution, both on and off of the battlefield and both before and after the Revolutionary War itself. This virtual field trip features Lauren Tarshis, author of the I Survived… series of book from Scholastic, Inc., museum educator Adrienne Whaley, and curator Matthew Skic as
Finding Freedom – Interactive Online Storybook
Drawing from historical sources as well as contemporary analysis, Finding Freedom explores the lives and decisions of five real people of African descent living in Virginia in 1781, as the British and American armies battle across the state. Their first-person narratives – supported by classroom resources, including primary sources – feature points of decision-making to
When Women Lost the Vote: A Revolutionary Story, 1776-1807 – Online Exhibit
Between 1776 and 1807, women and free people of African descent were legally allowed to vote in New Jersey if they met a property-ownership requirement. Through primary source documents, high-quality images of artifacts and historical objects, and interviews with historians, this exhibit explores a little-known moment in the history of the Revolutionary era, how the