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Teaching Resources for Your Classroom
Colonial Williamsburg offers a variety of quality
materials to assist you in teaching eighteenth-century life, including:
LADY'S POCKET
Hands-on History Kit
Eighteenth-century women tied on their pockets and reached through slits in their petticoats to retrieve the personal items they kept there. This lady's pocket contains a fan, sewing implements (needle case and wax animal), coins (pieces of eight), a seal and wax, Aesop's Fables playing cards, and a receipt.
Grades 3-8. $99.95. To order, call 1-800-761-8331 or email eftsupport@cwf.org.
BUYING RESPECTABILITY: THE CONSUMER REVOLUTION IN 18TH-CENTURY VIRGINIA
Lesson Unit
By 1700, the demand for goods and services led to a "consumer revolution." In this lesson unit, your students explore the 18th century's changing economy, the status symbols of this class society, social mobility, taxation, the monetary system, and the impact of British mercantilism on America. Grades 7-12, 138 pages. $34.95. To order, call 1-800-761-8331 or email eftsupport@cwf.org.
