Meeting Alice

Meeting Alice is a program at historic Paulsdale for Elementary Schools, Home Schools, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and other children’s groups.

Bring children to Paulsdale, Alice Paul’s historic home and a National Historic Landmark in Mt. Laurel, NJ for this fun and interactive program – includes games, maps and art.  A 2-hour visit suitable for 3^rd, 4^th or 5^th grade – ideal for New Jersey studies. 

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

Children will be introduced to:

• Alice Paul and her work in the national women’s suffrage movement
   

• c. 1900 farming in South Jersey

The program will enhance children’s skill with:  reading comprehension and knowledge application, historical inquiry, group/team work, using physical evidence as clues, map reading.

    

What do we want children to remember?

Short term: 

• Facts and concepts about Alice Paul’s life and work
   

• New Jersey’s farming heritage
   

• Quaker ideals and their influence on New Jersey history

Long term:   
One person, dedicated to an ideal of equality, can make a difference

PROGRAM ACTIVITIES


Children read the book Alice Paul (Elizabeth Raum, Heinemann Library, 2004) before coming to Paulsdale.
Click here to purchase a copy of this book.

 

Children arrive and are introduced to the Paulsdale site and their session leader.  In the parlor they learn about the house, its significance as New Jersey’s only National Historic Landmark dedicated to a woman, and the Alice Paul artifacts in the room.  In teams, children play the Meeting Alice game.  Each team has a copy of the Alice Paul biography to search for answers to their questions.  In the same teams children decorate a puzzle piece that represents a period in Alice Paul’s life.  When they return to their school they can assemble the pieces to create a bulletin board display.

Outside, the children tour the farmyard, following a map, to learn about South Jersey farming and a child’s life on a farm in 1900.  A team scavenger hunt at the end reinforces the information they learn on the tour.

To learn more about this program or schedule your visit, please contact Kris Myers, Director of Heritage & Outreach at 856-231-1885 or kmyers@alicepaul.org.