Minimum 15 students. Self-Guided Tours School groups that wish to visit the museums on their own are welcome to do so. Special rates are available for groups of 10 or more students. Advance registration is highly recommended. Students explore reproduction artifacts from Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center.
Classes also receive materials to make their own rope.
Meets Virginia Social Studies Standards of Learning for second, third and fourth grades. Cultures in Contact Through role playing, examining period illustrations, and analyzing reproductions of English, Powhatan and African material culture, students compare and contrast the cultures that came into contact at Jamestown. They investigate the economic reasons and other factors that brought settlers to Virginia, and the cultural exchange of Virginia's colonial inhabitants. Meets Virginia Social Studies Standards of Learning for second, third, fourth, fifth and eleventh grades. Life at Jamestown Students learn about the early struggles of the English colonists at Jamestown.