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ON-SITE TOURS & WORKSHOPS:
 Our program supports the Pennsylvania Social Studies Academics Standards for History, Geography, Environment and Ecology. Since 1974 the Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation has offered on-site programs related to 18th century farm life through its "living history" weekend activities and weekday field trips. Group programming can be designed for any age level from pre-school to senior citizens. Our on-site season begins the first week of April and ends mid-November.
On-site programs are available April into November and must be scheduled by calling the Plantation office, which is open year round, at 610-566-1725. Education Programs cannot be scheduled via email.
A COMBO TOUR:
Tyler Arboretum and the Plantation are neighbors. You can combine a visit to both sites. Possible suggestions: the Pratts & the Painters, the 18th & 19th century residents of our two sites OR the Lenape Indians at Tyler and Archaeology at the Plantation. The focus is on history.
EDUCATION FIELD TRIPS:
Sampler Workshop
The 3 1/2 hour Sampler Workshop is the ultimate hands-on experience. Participants cook a colonial dessert over the open hearth, complete farm chores and make a colonial craft. Candle-making, stenciling, carding & spinning wool, a school lesson, and colonial toys are the current craft choices. Due to the skills needed for the program, participants must be at least in the third grade.
Cost: $14.00 per participant
Minimum number of participants: 18
Maximum number of participants: 30
Minimum charge: $252.00
Archaeology Workshop
3rd Grade and Above
The 1 1/2 hour Archaeology Workshop allows students to learn the basics of historic archaeology and what we can learn from the past. Students excavate from a "prepared" site, learn to measure and map the location of their finds and participate in detailed artifact analysis.
Cost: $8.00 per participant
Minimum number of participants: 10
Maximum number of participants: 30
Minimum charge: $80.00
Standard Tour
The 1 1/2 hour Standard Tour can be adopted to any age group from kindergarten to senior citizen. The outdoor portion of the tour begins at the parking lot and may include stops at the pig pen, barnyard, springhouse, well and kitchen garden. In-doors, historic interpreters demonstrate spinning and carding and show examples of period clothing. Visitors go upstairs to view the bed chambers and return downstairs to see a collection of colonial toys. In the kitchen, they learn about 18th century foodways.
Cost: $7.00
Minimum number of participants: 10
Maximum number of participants: 30
Minimum charge: $70.00
Mini-Workshop
The 1 1/2 hour Mini-Workshop features chores and candlemaking. Each participant makes a pair of hand dipped candles. Typically chores might include sawing wood and drawing water from the well. For middle school students, chores involve splitting rails and building fences.
Cost: $8.00 per participant
Minimum number of participants: 10
Maximum number of participants: 30
Minimum charge: $80.00
Tour Mini-Workshop Combo
A Standard Tour can be combined with a Mini-Workshop of Archaeology Workshop for a 3 1/2 hour program. Participants take the Standard Tour, have a 1/2 hour lunch break, then continue with the Mini-Workshop program.
Cost: $13.00
Minimum number of participants: 10
Maximum number of participants: 30
Minimum charge: $130.00
After-School Programs
After-school programs follow the Tour Mini-Workshop format. They are 90 minutes in length and are available Monday - Thursdays. These are ideal for small groups and scout programs.
 Download the Education Programs Brochure
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The Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation is a private non-profit educational corporation operated under lease agreement with the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and National Resources.
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