Events for Homeschool Families
Learn more about our resources for home educators, upcoming events for homeschoolers, and other materials.
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Hands-on-History Center
Education Center
Families with children aged 12 and under can discover George Washington and Mount Vernon through hands-on activities, replica artifacts, and interactive exhibits.
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Virtual Tour
Discover Washington's home with the Mount Vernon Virtual Tour! The Virtual Tour is completely free, can be accessed on any laptop or mobile device. Use the Virtual Tour to learn more about the rooms, objects, and lives of the people living and laboring on the plantation.
Virtual Tour Resources
Lives Bound Together
Lives Bound Together: Slavery at George Washington's Mount Vernon explores the personal stories of the people enslaved at Mount Vernon while providing insight into George Washington's evolving opposition to slavery.
Lives Bound Together
Primary Source Collections
Access our growing collection of online primary source material. These sources range from archeological artifacts to interactive documents and objects!
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Secondary Sources
In search of articles, facts, and more information on George Washington? Check out our Secondary Sources page!
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Lesson Plans
Mount Vernon’s Resources for Teachers contains lesson plans developed by master teachers, including graduates of the George Washington Teacher Institute, as well as Mount Vernon educators and historians.
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Be Washington
Be Washington is a first-person, fifteen minute interactive leadership experience. Come face to face with challenges that George Washington confronted as commander in chief or president in four key scenarios. Host a game and control the pace of individuals, or play as a single player. This game is COPPA compliant.
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Situation Room Information
Set in 18th century America, Washington's Cabinet puts participants in leadership roles of people who were integral in the foreign policy decisions made in 1790s Philadelphia and determine the fate of the young United States.
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Student Contests
Check out what special prizes and awards your students can win through Mount Vernon's Student of the Year Award.
Student Advisory Board
High schoolers in the DMV area are invited to apply for our Student Advisory Board, a student-led group that works alongside Mount Vernon staff to shape education and programming at Mount Vernon.
