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The Next
Electronic Field Trip is

The Rare Breeds
January 15, 2004

The Coach and Livestock Department staff manage and interpret Colonial Williamsburg's impressive collection of livestock—horses, cattle, sheep, and domestic fowl. Join Elaine Shirley, Manager of Colonial Williamsburg's Rare Breeds Program, as she describes a typical day with the animals.

Today, the bloodlines of all purebred horses, even the best in thoroughbred racing, can be traced to the same foundation sires that created the great racehorses of eighteenth-century England and Virginia. Learn More!

This month's Technology Tip section is being "preempted" in favor of an article discussing Colonial Williamsburg's Rare Breeds program. Join us as we share more details about the why's and how's of the rare breeds found throughout our Historic Area. Learn More!

Colonial Williamsburg offers a variety of quality instructional materials dealing with 18th-century life, including:
—A Day in the Life (instructional video series)
—If You Lived in Williamsburg in Colonial Days (book)
—Hands-On History: Slave's Bag (object kit)
—Slavery: A Colonial Odyssey (lesson unit)
—Enslaved (videotape and web content)
—Caesar's Story: 1759 (book)
—"Stories Under African Skies" (audio cassette)

Learn More!

If you follow the use of technology in the classroom, you may wish to check out Jamie McKenzie's Online Technology Journal. This free online journal explores curriculum, information and media literacy, assessment, and a variety of other topics. The December issue includes a review of Todd Oppenheimer's book The Flickering Mind.
Learn More!.

Philip Vickers Fithian, 1773.