Learning Resources
Investigate the lives of the Indigenous Peoples of the Chesapeake with this rich collection of replica artifacts, clothing, and images.
Grades Pre-K-5. Cost: $150 (includes shipping both ways)
Travel through Maryland’s history in the 1600s and 1700s to learn about the people and forces that shaped its economy and culture.
(Grades 3-8)
Cost: $5 per student (This program has grant funding available. See Grant Funding page to learn more.)
Capacity: 10-60 students*
Duration: 1.5 hours
Benjamin Banneker was a self-taught, free African-American tobacco farmer whose brilliance in astronomy and mathematics garnered the attention of the most powerful white men in the new nation. Read the full post on MCHC’s blog.
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WayFinders: Making Sense of Our World invites families to use their senses to learn history together. A dedicated exhibition designed for ages 5 and up encourages visitors to use clues from nature and their senses. Sniff a beehive, crank a bucket elevator, listen to cicadas, and play in the Shadow puppet theater.
In the history of Maryland, people used their senses and careful observation to guide themselves and others. They followed both these natural clues and their own inner compass, or their sense of what was right, to help lead the way.
We can be WayFinders today, too.
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Virtual Field Trips: K-12
Objects to Explore
Peace medal
unknown (circa 17th Century)
Front cover of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia almanac, for the year of our Lord 1795
Benjamin Banneker (1794)
In Congress, July 4, 1776. The unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States of America
United States. Continental Congress (1777)
Plan of the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia, ceded by the states of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America, and by them established as the seat of their government, after the year MDCCC
Thackara & Vallance (1792)
Telescope
unknown (circa 19th century)
Benjamin Banneker astronomical journal
Benjamin Banneker (1790-1802)
Related
Virtual Field Trips: K-12
Learning Resources
Investigate the lives of the Indigenous Peoples of the Chesapeake with this rich collection of replica artifacts, clothing, and images.
Grades Pre-K-5. Cost: $150 (includes shipping both ways)
Travel through Maryland’s history in the 1600s and 1700s to learn about the people and forces that shaped its economy and culture.
(Grades 3-8)
Cost: $5 per student (This program has grant funding available. See Grant Funding page to learn more.)
Capacity: 10-60 students*
Duration: 1.5 hours
Benjamin Banneker was a self-taught, free African-American tobacco farmer whose brilliance in astronomy and mathematics garnered the attention of the most powerful white men in the new nation. Read the full post on MCHC’s blog.
