$10
per classLearn the Secrets of George Washington’s Spy Rings
Completed by 76 learners
Ages 8-13
Live One-Time Class
Live video meetings
Meets once
1-8 learners per class
35 min
What's included
1 live meeting
35 mins in-class hoursClass Experience
US Grade 3 - 6
General George Washington needed more than soldiers to win the Revolutionary War over England. He needed every day people – tavern owners, farmers and women – in spy rings to outsmart the British. And it worked. Learn how to make Invisible ink for messages using just water and two common items in your cabinet. We'll also learn one of the codes used by the spy network. We’ll learn how spies were given numbers instead of names for their protection. And, how Benedict Arnold was exposed as a traitor by spies. We’ll study the Culper Ring in New York where Anna Strong passed along messages by hanging a dark dress on her laundry line while tavern owners, farmers and boatmen relayed intelligence. Alexander Hamilton even worked as a spy. Spies twice saved George Washington’s life from ambush. The British used spies, too. It was all about outsmarting each other and America won its freedom thanks to spies. Do you have what it takes to be one of George Washington’s spies?
Learning Goals
Students will learn why George Washington created a spy network, its leading spies who were never caught and how to create secret messages.
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Meet the teacher
Teacher expertise and credentials
Bachelor's Degree in Journalism from University of Maryland-College Park
Rick Snider has been passing secret messages since grade school using Washington’s method while growing up near Mount Vernon. It served him well during a 40-plus year career as a Washington journalist by using modern spies now known as sources. Rick also teaches three classes involving George Washington, including Let’s Visit George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Five Greatest Presidents and Eight Founding Fathers Who Created A Nation.
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