Colonial America
Day In
the Life Electronic Field Trip. Through a partnership with Colonial
Williamsburg students participate in a virtual field trip using a streaming
video feed. Students call in questions to History experts, write questions which
are posted to an online discussion board and participate in an interactive web
activity.
Jamestown Online Adventure:
Use this interactive Flash game to create a colony
COLONIAL AMERICA BROCHURE:
http://www.teachtheteachers.org/projects/JRamont2/index.htm
Students must choose between a shipbuilder, a religious reformer, or a Colonial
tradesman. Each person must effectively promote immigration to the colonies,
writing persuasive articles and creating a brochure to send back to England. To
do this however, students will first need to conduct appropriate research using
online resources. Each role-play task is outlined for goals and guidelines.
Rubrics are included.
Early American Colonies:
http://www.esd.k12.ca.us/Cadwallader/Room 20/Colonies/Main.html
13 Originals: http://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html
The American Colonies:
http://www.jacksonesd.k12.or.us/k12projects/jimperry/colony.html
18th Century Colonies:
http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/lec.col2.html
Roanoke Revisited: http://www.nps.gov/fora/first.htm
A History of Jamestown: http://www.apva.org/history/index.html
Pocahontas, Rolfe, Jamestown, and Virginia:
http://members.tripod.com/~AlanCheshire/index-15.html
The Wampanoag: http://www.tolatsga.org/wampa.html
Colonial Williamsburg: http://www.history.org/
Old Sturbridge Village: http://www.osv.org/
Community Life: http://www.pilgrimhall.org/comlife.htm
Colonial Christmas:
http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/xmas/customs.cfm
18th Century Colonial Trades:
http://www.esd.k12.ca.us/Cadwallader/Room 20/Colonial_Trades/Trademain.html
Making a Living in the New World:
http://www.pilgrimhall.org/living.htm
Farming in the 13 Colonies:
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/13coloniesfarm.htm
America/colonial/Families/Clothing/children.htm
Colonial Education: http://www.stratfordhall.org/ed-boysgirls.htm
Colonial Music: http://www.colonialmusic.org/
Colonial Food:
http://www.mandia.com/kelly/webpage/99_student_pages/colonial_food/jen2.html
Recipes from Colonial Williamsburg:
http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/food/foodhdr.cfm
The Mayflower Compact: http://members.aol.com/calebj/compact.html
Inventory of the Mayflower:
http://members.aol.com/mayflo1620/mayflower_inventory2.html
Mayflower Passenger List: http://members.aol.com/calebj/passenger.html
Who Were the Pilgrims? http://www.pilgrimhall.org/whopilg.htm
Puritans in Colonial America:
http://lonestar.texas.net/~mseifert/puritan.html
Puritans in New England:
http://65.107.211.206/religion/puritan2.html
For Teachers
THE COLONIAL GAZETTE WEBQUEST http://www.loelem.santacruz.k12.ca.us/classrooms/library/webquest.htm
http://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/charters_of_freedom/constitution/founding_fathers.html
http://www.writesite.org/html/oti.html
Journey back more than 250 years to Colonial America, and learn what your life
would have been like. Students will then create their own 18th century
newspaper, divided into regions for the different colonies, and selecting events
of historical importance and interest. Use the URLs below the webquest URL to
complete the assignments for this learning plan.
COLONIAL CHILDREN:
http://www.macomb.k12.mi.us/wq/WebQ97/COLAMER2.HTM
http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/xmas/customs.cfm
http://www.nps.gov/fofr/col_kids.htm
The amount of time spent in front of a television or playing video games
certainly wasn't a concern... Just how did Colonial children spend their days?
This web-quest lets students compare their lives now and then along a guided set of field
questions. They will create a comparison chart; also try museum exhibits,
dioramas, skits, journals, or multimedia presentations with either Kid Pix or
Leonardo's Multimedia Toolbox. Both are available at: http://www.riverdeep.net Use the 2nd URL above for Colonial Christmas customs, the 3rd URL for education,
and the 4th for Colonial children. Try the webquest resources below for links to food and recipes from Colonial America.
THE THIRTEEN COLONIES WEBQUEST:
http://www.tesd.k12.pa.us/vfms/shaughnessy/intro.htm
Here is a webquest for classes studying the regional differences of the original
13 colonies. Students will use online resources to learn about the original
colonies, then draw comparisons of similarities and differences. They will
present their findings via a poster or presentation format along the guidelines
included in the webquest. Rubrics are also available.
JOURNEY BACK IN TIME:
http://www2.lhric.org/kat/wq/colonial.htm
Your upper elementary students will travel back in time to Colonial America.
They will need to select a role-- a slave, a printer, a founding father, a
tanner, a student, a miller, etc., and bring that character to life. Online
research will yield information to create a brochure; also consider a Colonial
Day in the classroom to showcase all your research, dress in costume, prepare
Colonial recipes--even write a small skit. Guideline support the preparation and
content of the student brochures, which they will create using MS Publisher or
the Student Writing Center, which is available at: http:///www.riverdeep.net
