For Educators

Tudor Place professional development programs impart innovative multidisciplinary techniques for engaging students.

Classroom Resources

These complementary resource packets are available to use pre-visit and post-visit to Tudor Place. Customize and use on your own in the classroom.

Garden & Outdoor

• • Counting Tree Rings
  • Design a Garden
  • Flowers
  • Garden Shapes
  • What Trees Tell Us

Then & Now

• • Tudor Time Travels: Art and Architecture (Grades 3-8)
  • Historical Detectives (Grades 3-8)

Revolutionary War

• • Shaping a Nation (Grades 4-8)

American Civil War

• • Explore the Civil War (Grades 4-12)

The Journey Series Workbooks

Professionally printed booklets replicate a field trip experience through a series of reading and writing exercises.

• • In the Garden (preschool). Practice school readiness skills while exploring the garden at Tudor Place. Each activity helps to develop two or more of the following skills: fine motor control, identifying shapes, identifying colors, counting, positional words, science comprehension and sorting.
  • Historical Detectives (Grades 3-5). Build primary and secondary source analysis skills while solving three mysteries. Each mystery requires building on skills and vocabulary learned in pervious pages of the booklet.

At Home Resources

Craft

• • Bee Finger Puppet
  • Origami Bats
  • Picture Yourself
  • Paint Fireworks
  • Cicada Origami
  • Summer Solstice Monoprints
  • Stained Glass Tulips
  • Egg Carton Tulips
  • At Home Reproduction Object Exhibit

Activity

• • Create a Carton Bird Feeder
  • What Do You Collect?
  • Design a Summer Fountain
  • Create a Journal
  • Cicada Safari
  • Using iNaturalist (City Nature Challenge)
  • What Do You See Outdoors? (City Nature Challenge)
  • Tudor Place Coloring Pages
  • Plant Yoga
  • Tudor Place Virtual Garden Adventure (Elementary Education)

Lessons – Deeper Dive Family Activities

• • What Trees Can Tell Us (Elementary Plant Science)
  • Tips: Houseplants TLC
  • Museums 101: Slavery & the Gap in Archives
  • Museums 101: Primary Sources on Tour