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Early Maryland:
Students participating in the Early Maryland program at Historic London Town and Gardens gain a basic understanding of daily life in a colonial seaport. Through tours and hands-on activities, students become familiar with basic aspects of colonial life, such as architecture, travel, trade and commerce, clothing styles and their manurfacture, and food production. Students learn about the growing, harvesting, marketing and shipping of tobacco. Through multiple activities, students gain an understanding of the colonial transportation system such as roads, ferries, and ships that supported a successful seaport. The need for tradesmen, such as carpenters, coopers, tailors, blacksmiths, and other trades associated with a seaport is demonstrated. The teacher’s packet with pre- and post-visit activities is here.
 Program Objectives:
Learn how archival (documents) and physical evidence (artifacts) can tell us about the past.
- Use deductive reasoning, based on the best archival and physical evidence, to conclude how colonial people lived their daily lives at London Town.
- Recognize that tobacco played a large part in the gradual institutionalization of slavery in London Town and the Maryland, and in the economy of the New World.
- Learn how vital the import and export trade systems were to the colonies and England.
- Learn the importance and economic basis of the Triangle Trade.
- Be able to draw comparisons between daily life in the 18th Century to life today and describe how life was different for children in Colonial times.
Lessons Used:
The following are some of the individual lessons used. Not all lessons are used in every program.
- Role Play—Children dress in period clothing and are given roles of actual people of London Town.
- Spinning Room—Children experience the process of making clothing from flax and wool through hands-on participation.
- Seaport Room—Children learn about ship life, tobacco trade, mercantile system, ropemaking, and the institution of slavery.
- Lord Mayor’s Tenement—Students experience daily life of children in the 18th Century. Activities include making corn cakes over the open fire, grinding spices, and making medicines.
- Kitchen Garden and African American Demonstration Garden demonstrate versatility of 18th century gardens. Children may have the opportunity to help pick produce to cook on the hearth in the Lord Mayor’s Tenement.
- Architecture—Children will learn about Colonial buildings in the Chesapeake region.
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