Education

Educational Resources

FWCP offers a variety of resources, programming, and content for students of any grade level. You can leverage the below resources to compliment or expand your exsisting lesson content, or use it to create totally new lesson plans.

 

Colonial Days Field Trips

During our Colonial Days field trip program – which runs from 10 AM to 12:30 PM – students rotate through stations, spending 15 minutes at each stop to learn about life in 18th colonial America and the events of Christmas Night 1776. These Field trips make the perfect educational and fun field trip to immerse your students in their local and American history.

Rescuing the Revolution Field Trip

This brand new combines two of our best programs, our Colonial Days Field Trip, and the Traversing the Ten Crucial Days bus tour, into one, unique and educational program. The program travels between the sites of the Ten crucial days and allow students to visit the sites where the events they learn about took place, while also engaging in hands-on activities and educational exercises.

Classroom Resources

Our Classroom resources page offers a comprehensive listing of all the resources that are at your disposal from FWCP. Be sure to check out outreach programs, our 76 Seconds of History videos and more!

Traversing the Ten Crucial Days Bus Tour

The Traversing the Ten Crucial Days Bus Tour begins and ends at Washington Crossing, PA. Guests spend the day retracing the December 25 crossing of the Delaware and the December 26, 1776 through January 3, 1777 American and British military engagements at Trenton, Princeton and areas in-between. Hear how the terrain, weaponry and weather influenced the ways the battles were fought and how the lives of the local people were disrupted by them. See where armies marched, fought and struggled to survive on an otherwise peaceful landscape, while the course of human history hung in the balance.