Plimoth Plantation

PILGRIMS BEYOND PLIMOTH PLANTATION
EDUCATION OUTREACH PROJECT

Through Educational Outreach Programs, Plimoth Plantation's gifted staff of role-players and historians travel to schools, churches and boardrooms across America. Each year we bring the Pilgrim story to thousands of students who are unable to experience the museum.

Different Programs are offered:

Plimoth Plantation outreach programs make history come to life in the classroom. Classroom Visits and Traveling Workshops bring Intrpretors and Museum Teachers to your school. The programs are designed to supplement social studies and language arts units. Materials to help prepare your class can be sent with confirmation.

Speakers's Bureau
For Libraries, conventions, corporations, historical societies,and civic groups, Plimoth Plantation offers an extraordinary selection of fascinating educational programs focused on 17th-century colonial life and Native Wampanoag culture. Darwing on the historical expertise of its renowned professional staff, the museum can schedule appearances by lectures, costumed role-players, singing groups specializing in music from the Pilgrim's time, and artisans skilled in period crafts.

Colonial Overnights
Groups arrive in the afternoon and step into the 17th-century life by visiting the musuem sites. In the evening, they explore the experinces of children who came to Plymouth from England. Activites include making a mural and learning about the lives of colonial children through the dress, games, and serving and eating a 17th-century meal. Groups spend the night in the PLantaion's Visitor's Center.

Colonial Overnights include:
Two-day museum pass
17th-century dinner
Breakfast
Evening Activities

Colonial Foodways Workshop
You are what you eat! Learn about the Pilgrims from crops, fish, game and other foods that they ate. While exploring the 1627 Pilgrim Village, visiting a costumed role-player portraying a Plymouth colonist, or participating in hands-on activities, stdents learn about food acquisition, preservation, and preparaton in early-colonial New England. Students can compare contemporary foodways with those of the colonial past.

Traveling Workshops
Hands-on workshops bring a Museum Teacher to your school to reach specific aspects of life in the 17th-century Plymouth from a modern perspective.

For more information please contact:
Program Services Manager
Phone: 508/746-1622; 800-262-9356, ext 359
Fax: 508/830-6022