The Virginia Department of Historic Resources (SHPO) provides a wide variety of heritage education materials, including audio-visuals, videos, traveling trunks, and publications regarding historic architecture, National Register properties, community history, objects and artifacts, historic sites, and archaeology. A teachers' guide, "Teaching With Historic Places" is provided free upon request to teachers interested in using historic places in teaching history, civics, government, math, science, and language arts.

Virginia Department of Historic Resources
221 Governor Street
Richmond, VA  23219
(804)786-3143
FAX (804)-225-4261

The Historic Staunton Foundation offers heritage education materials relating to local history and historic architecture.  They provide audio-visuals including slides and photographs, and traveling trunks relating to architecture in Staunton. Other services include an architectural treasure hunt, walking tours, and self-guided tour brochures. An educational unit relating to architecture has been developed for the fourth grade.

Historic Staunton Foundation
120 S. Augusta St.
Staunton, VA  24401
540-885-7676
FAX 540-885-5976

The Preservation of Historic Winchester conducts teacher workshops on heritage education, and provides materials on historic architecture, national register properties, community history, and historic sites.

Preservation of Historic Winchester, Inc.
2 North Cameron Street
Winchester, VA  22601
540-667-3577
FAX  540-667-3583

Arlington Public Schools
1426 Quincy Street
Arlington, VA  22207

A series of booklets and lesson plans at the middle-school level on architecture, maps, community history, historic documents, and artifacts is offered by this school district.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has three Historic Properties and two Costewardship Properties in Virginia: