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Interactive Distance Learning
Educator


Pamplin Historical Park & The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier announces new exciting electronic field trip programs. Using video conference technology with multimedia content, Park educators are able to engage in interactive history programs for students in classrooms across the nation, and beyond. Students may respond to Park educators, ask questions, and learn from experts without leaving their schools.

“These programs promote critical thinking about important themes from the Civil War and Reconstruction periods."

- Al Neale, Park Education Supervisor

 

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Educational Programs

Educator
Click here to download a detailed description of the program, including standards of learning.

Available Now
The Civil War - Why They Fought: (grades 4,5,6,7,8)
This interactive program utilizes a map of the United States in 1861, a bar graph that compares and contrasts social and economic differences between the North and South at the time of the Civil War, and a readers’ theater technique to present the perspectives of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and various Civil War soldiers and civilians. These teaching techniques help students understand how and why the debate over the expansion of slavery precipitated secession of the deep-South states and eventually led to civil war.

Cost: $125 per session, Minimum: Six students, Maximum: One classroom size.

Timeline
Click here to download a detailed description of the program, including standards of learning.		 Available Nov. 1
The Reconstruction Era: Walking the Road to Freedom (grades 4,5,6,7,8)
This program is a historical fiction readers’ theater about an Africa- American mother and two children freed from slavery. The family takes a dangerous journey in search of the father who was separated from them during the war. They encounter many of the promises and pitfalls African Americans experienced during the Reconstruction Era. Each event or challenge they encounter is a memorable learning experience for students participating in the readers’ theater.

Cost: $125 per session, Minimum: Eight students, Maximum: One classroom size.

Technical Requirements

• Video Conference system supporting H.323 communications
• 512K internet connection

Click here to download a detailed list of Technical Requirements.

Click here for Frequently Asked Questions.

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