Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts
Guided tours and hands-on programs at Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center offer opportunities for Boy Scouts and Girls Scouts at various levels to have fun and learn while meeting requirements for badges and awards.
Guided Tours
At Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center, guided tours offer scouts the opportunity to engage in hands-on activities while learning about Virginia’s role in the creation of the United States of America. A variety of tour offerings are available to fit your troop’s age level, schedule and interests. Choose from program offerings at Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center.
Hands-On Programs
At Jamestown Settlement:
Scouts participating in Life at Jamestown will assist with cooking corncakes in a 17th- century open hearth fireplace, and learn from a costumed interpreter about the weapons and military tactics used by the English to defend the colony. Recommended for children ages 6 – 12.
Participants in Living with the Indians will try their hand at scraping a deer hide to prepare it for tanning, grinding dried corn in a wooden mortar and pestle, and making rope from dried plant material.
In Cultures at Jamestown the cultures of the Powhatan Indians, English and West Central Africans are compared and contrasted through role play, clothing try-on, and examination of tools and trade items that were important to each group. Recommended for children ages 8 -14.
Voyage to Virginia provides older scouts the opportunity to learn the basics of ded reckoning and celestial navigation, along with life aboard a 17th- century sailing ship. Recommended for children ages 11 – 18.
At Yorktown Victory Center:
Learn about daily life on a 1780’s Tidewater farm in Colonial Life, through stories, a craft, and a cooking activity. Recommended for children ages 6 – 12.
Life of a Private offers participants the opportunity to try on the uniform and equipment of a Continental soldier and learn why soldiers joined the army, what they experienced in camp, on the battlefield, and when they were sick or wounded. Recommended for children ages 8 -14.
Participants in Colonial Medicine examine reproduction medical tools and learn how wounds and illness were treated in the military and on the farm, while learning about scientific theories of medical treatment in the 18th century. Recommended for children ages 11 – 18.
To schedule a Scout Program, call Group Reservations at (757)253-4939.
