Today we examine the first President of the United States, George Washington. It was his leadership that was needed to lead our country through the formative first years. Watch the videos. Be looking for the questions after the videos.
4. When you're finished, complete the following quick check.
After completing the quick check, you may look around on the Mt. Vernon virtual tour website, found here
Mt. Vernon is the home of George and Martha Washington. It is one of the places that is visited on the Washington D.C. trip in 8th grade. If you would like to opportunity to learn about George, Martha, and the activities that went on there, please explore this site. You do NOT have to read everything or watch every video. There is a list of topics. Feel free to take a look at a few of them.
Life at Mt Vernon as told by The History Channel
Below are two PDFs that we will use together as a class if there is time.