New Trekkers Podcasts
This week several of my schools have been working on MAPS testing so they have needed the computers. This has given me some much needed time to update the Virginia Trekkers website. We’ve added two new podcasts. In Podcast #27 we take your class on a virtual field trip to a peanut factory in Wakefield, Virginia. Your students will learn about one of the important crops in southern Virginia and how it played an important part during the Civil War. We’ll show you first-hand how peanuts are processed from the farm to the store shelf. It’s a great way to review your economics and Virginia studies SOLs with your students. In Podcast #28 we take your class to the Citie of Henricus, which was the second English settlement, established just four years after Jamestown in 1611. It was home to Pocahontas and John Rolfe, and it’s also how Henrico County got its name. We’ll show you inside an English settler’s house and a Powhatan Indian’s house, plus you’ll learn about early colonial economics. So come on, let’s go trekkin’!