Hands-on activities provide teamwork and problem solving in a field setting. Teachers provide input and evaluations, which are incorporated into ongoing program development. Docents are trained to encourage critical thinking with good questions and to engage students by relating new information to their own lives. The Director of Education works with each teacher's specific focus and students' needs for an optimal visit. A costumed docent, with a puppet, guide the very young student through the house.
Students see colonial clothing and make colonial paper dolls.
After a history of London and discussion of the purposes and methods of archaeology, students tour the excavation site. At Rumney's Tavern, an archaeologist explains features and findings. Docents lead activities in the woods in search of interdependence. Experiment includes predicting and recording observations. Back to Top Adult Programing Adult and Ongoing Education London Town sponsors seminars, cultural events, lectures and classes on Maryland history, archaeology, historic horticulture, and cultural and performing artsarts.