Lesson Plans and other educational Resources on the Colonial Period in American History

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Below you will find lessons plans, webquests, and teaching resources on the Colonial Period. We have divided those resources between the ones we provide and others we have identified on the web. If you have lesson plans or resources you would like to share, please e-mail me at marc@multied.com If you send ones for us to post we will send you a free CD Rom

HistoryCentral's Resources	Other Resources on the Web
General Colonial
Introduction to teaching the Colonies	Children in Colonial America Web Quest
	Interactive Puzzle on the Colonies
	Colonial America- A series of ideas from 5th grade teacher to use in the classroom
	Understanding the Colonial Economy-An in depth lessong plan on understanding the economy of colonial America
	Trade and Tools from Colonial Times- A web quest to put together an exhibit
	American Colonial Life in the Late 1700s: Distant Cousins- A full lesson plan by the National Endowments for the Humanities
	The First Great Awakening-- A lesson for High School Students from the National Endownment of the Humanties
	Back in the Day- A series of lessons built around lessons and games that children learned and played in colonial America
Jamestown
Jamestown Ordinace- A document exploration of the rights of the settlers	Jamestown Virtual Colony- A series of lesson plans on Jamestown
Jamestown and Pocohontos- Using the movie	Jamesquest- A webquest on Jamestown
	Jamestown Colony, Fact vs. Fiction - A Lesson for 7th and 8th graders
	Jamestown Journey- A 2 week lesson on the founding of the colony and the book the Double Life of Pocohontas
Plymouth
	The Pilgrim Life Adventure- A series of Webquests and other tasks to learn about the Pilgrims
	Settling Plymouth- A lesson for 3-4 graders from ESL,net
	A New Start- Students simulate writing the Mayflower Compact
	ESL Lessons on Religious Freedom based Around Plymouth
	Plymouth and Jamestown a Comparison- Student compare and contrast the two colonies
Connecticut
	A Colonial Family and Community- A webquest to find out about a family in colonial Northeast Connecticut

Maryland
	Teaching American History in Maryland- A series of lesson plans and the primary documents that go with them- from the Maryland Archives
Massachusetts Bay Colony
A lesson based on the charter
New York Colony
New Amsterdam- A document based lesson using the Charter of Privileges	The First Jews in America- An excellent lesson plan on their arrival and implications
Pennsylvania
	Penn's Holy Experiment A lesson Plan about William Penn and the establishment of Pennsylvania