Field Trips

Hampton NHS Scavenger Hunt| K-12

Grade Level:
Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Subject:
Social Studies
Common Core Standards:
6-8.RH.1, 6-8.RH.2, 11-12.RH.1, 1.RI.7, 2.RI.1

Hampton NHS has 63 acres for students to explore. Throughout the park informational signage is available to assist visitors in learning the park's history, stories, and resources. This activity allows teachers to have a structured visit to Hampton while ensuring their students get the most out of their feild trip. Students will learn about architecture, slavery, daily life, and other aspects that make Hampton NHS one of the nation's most significant preserved historic plantations. 

Learning Objectives

Though this in-park activity students will be able to:

  1. describe the form and functions of historic structures.
  2. identify tasks necessary to support daily life on a plantation.
  3. identify differences between societal elites, such as enslavers, versus enslaved workers or tenant farmers.
  4. explain how the layout of the landscape and structures illustrate social hierarchy of the antebellum period.
  5. explain how enslavers' lives are enhanced through the forced labor of enslaved people.

Materials

Download Scavenger Hunt activity sheet.

Download Scavenger Hunt teachers answer key

Tags: self guided field trips

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Last updated: February 1, 2022