Atlantic School Goes to Washington-2002

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1. It is 28 miles from Mount Vernon to Washington DC?  If you were riding in a car it would take you approximately 31 minutes driving 55 miles an hour.  How long would it take President Washington to get to Washington DC  riding his horse at 12 miles an hour. 
     
2. Did  George Washington eat a balanced diet?  

   Breakfast 7:00 am	Dinner 3:00 pm	Supper 9:00 pm
   tea, coffee, meats (cold and boiled), mush cakes with honey and butter	roasted pig, leg of lamb, roasted fowl, beef, peas, lettuce, cucumbers, artichokes, puddings and tarts	left over roasted pig, leg of lamb, roasted fowl, and beef.  peas, lettuce, cucumbers, artichokes, puddings and tarts

   Place each food item he ate during the day in the appropriate category on the food pyramid to see if he ate a balanced diet.  

3. What type of simple machines were used at Mount Vernon?   Using a comparison chart, compare the simple machines at Mount Vernon  to today's machinery. 

Answers

Scavenger Hunt

1. For what saying was George Washington is most famous? Go to the web site to find out.  http://www.mountvernon.org/mtour/one.asp
   
2. What type of events are taking place when you go to Mount Vernon this year?  Go to the web site to find out!  http://www.mountvernon.org/calendar/
   
3. Do you know all about Washington's five farms?  Visit the web site, then take the quiz.  Be sure to print your results!  http://www.mountvernon.org/pioneer/farms/
   
4. Did you know  Mount Vernon has many web sites?  Some are better than others.  Print and use the Web Evaluation to rate the listed web sites below. 

• http://mtvernon.net/
• http://www.mountvernon.org/
• http://www.gilderlehrman.com/gw/home.html

Answers 

1. Washington really had wooden false teeth? 
2. Washington inherited Mount Vernon from his brother? 
3. Washington really chopped down a cherry tree? 
4. Washington's great granddaughter married a Confederate general? 
5. Martha and George Washington had several biological children? 

Information about Mount Vernon
 

     Mount Vernon, a beautiful mansion, is located on the Potomac River about 300 miles from the sea.  This tremendous mansion has been a home for many people in the Washington family, including our first president who lived here from 1754 until his death at age 67 in 1799.

    Mount Vernon, near Alexandria, VA., the home of George Washington, was a small house, probably built before 1700, that Washington enlarged in stages.  In 1757-58 a story was added, and the exterior walls were finished in wood that was painted and sanded to resemble rusticated stone, probably inspired by illustrations in William Adam's Vitruvius Scotticus (c. 1780) a neoclassical architectural  pattern-book. The interiors were remodeled using decorative details culled from English publications of the contemporary style of Robert Adam.  Between 1776 and 1778 the house, of Georgians design, was extended at each end to nearly double its original size, and a pediment was added over the entrance.  The familiar portico, with eight slender piers, was added in 1784, and the cupola over the center of the house was completed in 1787.  The effect of the whole is that of a composition of borrowed English motifs rendered with a distinctively graceful naiveté that gave American colonial architecture its special character.

     Mount Vernon is preserved by the Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union which was founded by Ann Cunningham 1853.   Now Mount Vernon is a well-known tourist attraction in Virginia.  The public can tour through 14 rooms in the mansion and walk through the many gardens of the home just like George Washington did.  One can imagine the working plantation with slave bustling on the grounds and Mr. Washington, himself, inspecting the activities. 

Jeanne S. 

1. 2 hours and 33 minutes
2. No, too heavy on the meats and not enough grains
3. Mount Vernon= plow/tractor disc,  chopping knife/food processor, mixing by hand/electric mixer,  wash board/washing machine, clothes line/dryer 

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Answers to Scavenger Hunt

1. "First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen."
2. Correct information is to be printed on the month the class visits, see web site.
3. Printed results
4. Results of web evaluation

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Answers to Fact or Fiction

1. Fiction (Washington had false teeth but they were not made of wood, one was made of cow's tooth and others made from a hippopotamus ivory).
2. Fact
3. Fiction (Probably not, the story came from Parson Weems to illustrate Washington's honestly)
4. Fact
5. Fiction (Washington had no children but raised two children from Martha's previous marriage). 

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Citation

Wall, Charles C. Meadows, Christine. Rhodehamel, John H. Clark, and Ellen McCallister.  Mt. Vernon Handbook. Mt. Vernon, Virginia: Mt. Vernon Ladies Association of the Union. 1974. p95.

Mount Vernon Ladies' Association "Calendar of Events" 2000. 12/7/01. <http://www.mountvernon.org/calendar/>

Mount Vernon Ladies' Association "Mansion Tour" 2000. 12/7/01. <http://www.mountvernon.org/mtour/one.asp>

Mount Vernon Ladies' Association "George Washington's Mt. Vernon's Estate and Gardens " 2000. 12/7/01. <http://www.mountvernon.org/>

"Posters." All Posters.com. 2002, June 5. 5 June, 2002. <http://www.allposters.com/gallery.asp?aid=99864&c=c&search=1603>.