5SSColonialAm

=Colonial America =

Quick Activities and Games
[|The First Thanksgiving: You be the Historian] Participate in an interactive multimedia investigation of the first Thanksgiving

[|Interactive Jamestown] Time Magazine has an interactive showing how Jamestown might have looked when it was originally built.

[|Interactive Jamestown] National Geographic

Jamestown Trivia Game

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Lessons- Internet
[|You Be the Historian] Historians study the everyday lives of people who lived in the past by looking at clues: the objects and documents that people left behind and that have somehow survived. Someday future historians interested in the history of the late 20th century may study your family! See if you can figure out what life was like 200 years ago for Thomas and Elizabeth Springer's family in New Castle, Delaware. At the same time discover what historians in the next century could learn about you if they found your house exactly the way it is today.Look at the artifacts to learn about live 200 years ago.

Lessons- Technology
PowerPoint- Colonial Life in America slide shows Students will research various aspects (food, clothing, shelter, religion, education, jobs, fun, illnesses, etc.) of life in a particular region of the American colonies (New England, Middle, or Southern). They will then create a PowerPoint slide show of their information

Web Pages- Students research famous people and events of the Colonial period. Then create web pages of their information

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kid Pix- Create a Jamestown Colony Timeline

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Spreadsheet- Colonial America Job Graphs <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students [|use this link] to tally data on the number of workers in each job in colonial Jamestown. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students then use a spreadsheet program to graph the total numbers. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Click here to view lesson plan]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Internet Resources- Student
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Social Studies for Kids- Colonial Times] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Links to learn about all aspects of life in Colonial times including religion, education, food, farming, and fun. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Click each colony on the [|map] and learn how it was founded.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Archiving Early America]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Colonial Trades in America:] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Short informational paragraphs about 19 different colonial jobs.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Colonial Williamsburg- Colonial Life:] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Links to information on a variety of topics about Colonial Life including... animals, Christmas, clothing, family, food, gardening, manners, politics, religion, tools, and trades.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|13 Originals: Founding the American Colonies:] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Great short synopsis of how each colony was formed.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Internet Resources- Teacher
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Lesson Plan Ideas from Virtual Jamestown]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Resources from Social Studies Alive
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">History Globe: Jamestown <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown/ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Settling in a new land involves important choices – where to build, what to eat, how to get along with the people who already live there. The “Jamestown Online Adventure” lets you make these decisions for yourself as you land in Virginia and settle Jamestown. For each decision, you can ask settlers, Indians, and the royal charter for their advice on what you should do. At the end, you’ll see the results of your choices.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jamestown Fort: Rediscovered <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> http://www.apva.org/ngex/ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> At “Jamestown Fort: Rediscovered,” you can explore the story behind Jamestown, some of the key people involved in the settlement, and a display of the artifacts archaeologists have found there.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mayflower History <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/History/history.php <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> This site is all about the Mayflower, the people who sailed on it, and what they did. You’ll find information on the ship, the voyage, the Pilgrims, the Pilgrims’ first impressions of Cape Cod, and the town of Plymouth they founded.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">nps.gov: Fort Raleigh <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> http://www.nps.gov/fora/historyculture/index.htm <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The National Park Service has a park where Fort Raleigh was on Roanoke Island. On the park’s “History and Culture” page, you can read more about the lost colony and some of the people who lived on the island.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 13 Colonies – A Timeline <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> http://www.timepage.org/spl/13timeline.html <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> “13 Colonies – A Timeline” shows the founding of the colonies and other important colonial events, such as wars, founding of cities, and the arrival of slaves. This easily viewable timeline is a great way to see how all the colonial events you’re studying relate to each other in time.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Colonial Charters <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/statech.asp <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The Avalon Project, from Yale University, provides access to a vast number of documents relating to our nation’s history. At this page, “Colonial Charters, Grants and Related Documents,” you can read the text for all the charters and other documents for the founding of each of the thirteen colonies.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Colonial Wiliamsburg <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/trades/tradehdr.cfm <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Colonial Williamsburg is one of the best places we can visit today to see what colonial life was like. Their website has a page on trades in Williamsburg where you can explore different colonial jobs, including cabinetmaker, blacksmith, brickmaker, weaver, printer, and many more. They also have a page just for kids called “Kid’s Zone.”