Invite students to make a list of items people in the future might find if those people discovered things the students throw away in 1998. Name your home. George Washington's home was called Mount Vernon. Many homes had individual names during George Washington's time. Invite students to think of names for their own homes.
Students can write a sentence or a paragraph to explain why they chose the names they chose.
On a U.S. map trace George Washington's trip to his inaugural. D.C. Identify other places famous or familiar on the map. To learn more about the Washington Monument, click on the monument on the map. Invite students to build models of the monument using paper, blocks, or other materials. Mount Vernon Educational Resources has created a George Washington Biography Lesson .