Educational Resources

Teacher Lesson Plans

The Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Lesson 1: Colonial America Outline Map
• Lesson 1: Connecting the Dissenter Movement with the Virginia Declaration of Rights
• Lesson 1: George Whitefield Preaching Picture with Questions
• Lesson 1: Reading: The Dissenter Movement in Virginia
• Lesson 1: Understanding the Reading: The Dissenter Movement in Virginia

Patrick Henry

• Lesson 2: Patrick Henry as a Change Agent
• Lesson 2: Patrick Henry as a Change Agent: Graphic Organizer
• Lesson 2: Patrick Henry as a Change Agent: Reading

The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

• Lesson 3: The Polegreen Meeting House
• Lesson 3: Time Travel Activity: The Polegreen Meeting House
• Lesson 3: Time Travel Activity: What Really Happened

The First Amendment

• Lesson 4: Samuel Davies and the Polegreen Meeting House
• Lesson 4: Struggle for Religious Liberty and the First Amendment: Graphic Organizer
• Lesson 4: Struggle for Religious Liberty and the First Amendment: Seminar Personal Checklist

The Declaration of Independence

• Lesson 5: Connecting Samuel Davies and the Hanover Dissenter Movement with the Declaration of Independence
• Lesson 5: Samuel Morris Biography

The Great Awakening and Pre-Revolutionary America

• Lesson 6: The Great Awakening
• Lesson 6: The Great Awakening: Learning Grid

The First Amendment and the Supreme Court

• Lesson Plan
• AP Standards Addressed in Lesson Plan
• The Bill of Rights
• The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
• Virginia Declaration of Rights
• PowerPoint: The First Amendment and The Supreme Court