• Colonial Day at the Capitol Video
• Choosing a Location
• Funding Sources
• Materials Available for Check-Out
• Historical Characters and Speakers
• Large Group Activities
• Small Group Activities
• Colonial Costume Ideas
• Historical Documents
• Essay Contest
• Invitations and Publicity
• Our Colonial Education Partners
• OFE Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute Fellowships
• Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute
• Teacher Institute Alumni Network
• Return to Community Colonial Day Home
• Return to OFE Home

Planning a Colonial Day Event? Let Us Know We want to hear about your Community Colonial Day. Please email bwheelock@ofe.org to let us know when and where your event is being held so we can track the success of this online service. We also welcome photos, video, or other resources we can add to this web site to help other teachers. We appreciate your input. Thank you!

 

Small Group Activities

In addition to large group activities, Colonial Day at the Capitol has offered smaller, interactive sessions for groups of 15 to 30 students. These 30- to 45-minute sessions are developed and presented by teachers on a variety of topics pertaining to 18th century life and the Revolutionary War.

At our Colonial Day event, teachers present their sessions two or three times over the course of the day to accommodate as many students as possible. Here are samples of small-group activities that teachers have led at Colonial Day at the Capitol:

• Archeology
• Colonial Trades
• 18th Century Games
• Ghost Stories
• Tea Party
• Colonial Education
• Colonial Dancing
• Slavery
• A Soldier’s Life
• Colonial Sayings
• Economy
• Revolutionary War Spies
• Quill & Ink

A variety of teaching resources, games and artifacts are available for check out to Oklahoma teachers from the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence. For information, contact Brenda Wheelock at (405) 236-0006.