Activity: Go to the main desk and ask for a student activities booklet.  It will be blue or red.  Complete all of the activities and return it back to the desk to get checked.  If you did well, you will earn a Ranger Patch.  Turn in your booklet to your teacher.

Extra 5: Have a parent take photographs of you with the outdoor exhibits at the museum. Turn them in to your teacher with your booklet.

Activity: Get a map of the local Civil War sites in our area.  Grab your camera and take a drive to 4 or more locations.  Have a parent take a photo of you at each site. Make a poster or PowerPoint about your trip.  Write a short description of important facts about each location and place it under the photograph.  (Note: Hotels usually have Civil War brochures you can pick up for free.)

Well done projects could earn 5 more points!

Activity: Scavenger Hunt.......Take paper and pencil with you to the museum.  Locate the following showcases and name 2 or more items found inside: Confederate Preparation for War; First Battle of Bull Run; Mr. Mallory's Invention; Fredericksburg Battle, Gettysburg Battle, Robert E. Lee's campsite; Petersburg Campaign; After Appomattox.  Feel free to take photographs if permitted by the museum.  Then type up your information or create a PowerPoint.

Extra 5 :  Who's field notebook is on display with a bullet hole through it?  Name 3 items owned by Stonewall Jackson. Name three surgery tools used during the Civil War. Who is featured in the giant painting located in the stairwell?

Activity:  With a parent, travel around Richmond and take photos of important buildings, statues and historical sites.  Make a poster or PowerPoint of your trip.  Write a short description to go along with each photo. (You do not have to be in the photos.) 

Activity: Visit the home of Thomas Jefferson.  Take a camera and have a parent photograph you in front of his home. Take several other photographs of the area.  Make a poster or a PowerPoint of your trip.  Write a small description to go with each photo.

Activity: Take a drive down Route 5 to Shirley Plantation.  Have a parent take photographs of you in front of the house and other outdoor buildings.  See if you can find the reaper used to plow the fields too.  Create a poster or PowerPoint about your trip.  Write a small description to go with each photo.

Extra 5: Take the mansion tour and tell me what is written on the windows in the dining room.  

Activity: Visit the early capitol of Virginia!  Take a camera and have a parent photograph you in front of the Governor's Mansion, Peyton Randolph's House, George Wythe's house, Bruton Parish Church, the public goal (jail), the Capitol, the Magazine, and the Windmill.  Make a poster or PowerPoint of your trip.  Write a small description to go with each photo.

Extra 5: Pay to take the tours of the buildings.  Bring your ticket stub to your teacher with your project.

Activity: Visit the museum.  Bring your paid ticket stub to your teacher.  Write a paper about 5 things you did at the museum that you enjoyed.

Activity: Observe the phases of the moon for 7 days.  Make a calendar. Each night draw the moon's shape.  Your calendar and drawings must be neat.

Activity: Make a model of a solar eclipse and a lunar eclipse.  Color the sun, moon and Earth.  Label each of the three planets.  Label the eclipses.

Extra 5: Write up a description of the eclipse for each model.

Activity:  Design a travel brochure about Virginia.  You can do the whole state, or focus your idea on one area (Tidewater, Chesterfield, Appalachian Plateau).  Be sure to include key locations of interest for visitors to the area.  Include any historical information that you can find out.  Make the brochure colorful and attractive to a tourist. The information may be typed or hand written if done neatly.  

Activity: Find out about 3 famous Virginians.  Design a poster or PowerPoint about each person's life and what important things they accomplished.  Be sure to tell where in Virginia they lived.

Activity: Go to the website. Click on Telling a Story.  Learn how you can make your own Civil War movie using the video clips, music and narration provided by the website.  Complete the project and email it to your teacher. (Be sure to ask for the email address before you begin.)  The video you make is good for 14 days of viewing.

For an extra 5: Make the photos you choose match the narration of the movie.  It will be tricky, but do the best you can.

Dress up as a Famous Virginian!  Select someone from our studies or another famous person from our state.  Do a little research and write a paragraph about the famous person and why  they are to be remembered.  Design a costume that makes you look like the person.

If you wish to choose a person important to our study of Virginia, who was not a Virginian, please check with your teacher before you begin your research.