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Friendship Hill National Historic Site
Albert Gallatin: Champion of Democracy
 
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The Friendship Hill Educational Guide was designed to help teachers prepare their classes for a rewarding experience visiting the park. It is designed primarily for use in upper elementary school classrooms (grades 5-7). The guide contains the following sections. The entire guide can be viewed and downloaded here. Hard copies are no longer available.

  1. Educator's Study Guide to Friendship Hill National Historic Site
  2. Suggested Pre-visit Activities written for elementary students utilizing area districts curriculum themes. Each activity has Teacher's information and activities for students.
  3. Park Visit Outline
  4. On Site Program List with information about the programs offered at the park. This section contains themes and objectives for the different programs offered at the park.
  5. Suggested Reading Bibliographies for teachers and students.
  6. Post-Visit activities Suggested activities to follow-up your visit to the park.
Albert Gallatin  

Did You Know?
Albert Gallatin took a job teaching French at Harvard. Later, while surveying for a partner who had been one of his students, he bought the land he called Friendship Hill.

Last Updated: April 21, 2009 at 10:03 EST