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Topic:
- Colonial
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- Easier - A colony
is a group of people who leave their country to
settle in a new land. Colonial life involves the
everyday work and play of these settlers. In North
America, the Colonial period was between the early
1500s and late 1700s.
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- Harder - In the
1500s and 1600s, Spanish, French, Dutch, Swedish,
and British were all establishing colonies in North
America. Many people came to the colonies for land,
work, or religious freedom. Others came as
convicts, indentured servants, or slaves. When the
colonists arrived, they found Native Americans
already living in the area. The combination of
various European, African, and Native American
people created a diverse and sometimes volatile
cultural mix. The Colonial period ended with the
start of the Revolutionary
War which was fought to gain independence from
the British.
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- Archiving
Early America
- http://earlyamerica.com/
- This site houses primary source material from
18th Century America; original newspapers, maps and
writings just as they appeared to our forebears
more than 200 years ago.
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- Colonial
America at the Hargrett Library Rare Map
Collection, University of Georgia
- http://scarlett.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/colamer.html
- Here you have maps showing some of the first
colonies and divisions.
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- Colonial
America 1600-1775
- http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/colonial.htm
- This is a K-12 Resource links.
- Other Links-Sites on Colonial Life:
- 2) Colonial America http://pw1.netcom.com/~wandaron/col.html#eng
- 3) Colonial America at History Online http://www.jacksonesd.k12.or.us/k12projects/jimperry/colony.html
- 4) Colonization from KidInfo http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Colonization_Colonial_Life.html
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- Colonial
Williamsburg
- http://www.history.org/
- Visit the restored 18th-century capital of
Virginia.
- Not To Be Missed Sections:
- 2) Historical Almanack http://www.history.org/almanack/almanack.htm
- 3) Experience Colonial Life http://www.history.org/almanack/life/life.htm
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- After exploring several of the
websites, complete some of the following
activities or projects:
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- Be a History Detective. Go to
Colonial
Family and Community (Henry Ford
Museum & Greenfield Village) and
travel back in time to investigate the
daily lives of the Daggetts. Collect clues
to uncover the answers to questions about
colonial life in the 1700s. Then prove
your skills as a history
detective.
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- Be a Newpaper Reporter. Read a
Colonial
newspaper. Compare newspapers from
early America with today's newspapers.
What kinds of articles do you find? What
about photos and advertisements? Create
your own Colonial newspaper. Read
some
student newsletter projects for
examples.
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- Follow a Colonist. What was
daily life like for the Colonists? Read
articles on daily
life, school,
colonial
life, and life in Lexington.
Use The
Old Timer Page to find out about how
times have changed. Write about the day of
a person your age. Compare your day with
their day.
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- Be a Fashion Designer. What did
the Colonial people wear? Explore the
clothing
and Clothing
in Williamsburg web pages. Use butcher
block paper to create paper clothes. Or,
draw some clothing using
KidPix.
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- The Firsts. Read one of the
Firsts
Documents. Why do you think this
document was important in our history? Is
this event still important today? Why or
why not?
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- Create a Family. Explore the
Colonial
portraits, and notable
Colonial women. Learn more about one
of these people. Copy and picture and
write about what this person's life might
have been like. Look at the fourth
grade stamp project. Create your own
Colonial stamps.
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- Be a Map Maker. Look at
Colonial
maps and Georgia's
Rare Map Collection. Compare the
Colonial map to today's map. How is it
alike and different?
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- Pick a Career. Explore the
careers
of Colonial life. Most people had a
trade such as a blacksmith, baker, or
candlemaker. Explore the Colonial trades.
Which trade would you choose? Why? Create
a poster advertising a job for your
trade.
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- Build a Town. Learn about one
of the early Colonial towns such as
Roanoke,
Williamsburg, Jamestown, or Yorktown.
Create the village in your classroom. Read
a fifth
grade project for ideas.
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- Explore A Life. What was
Colonial life like for people of different
races, cultures, and religions? Read about
the African
American and Native
American experiences. Read about
religion
in early America.
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- Complete a Colonial Life
WebQuest. Adapt or follow the
procedures found at one or more of the
following WebQuest site:
- 1)
Life in Colonial Times http://www.davidson.k12.nc.us/webquests/colonial/colonial.htm
- 2) Children in Colonial America
http://www.macomb.k12.mi.us/wq/WebQ97/COLAMER2.HTM
- 3) Colonial Gazette by Lisa Bird
(Grades 5-8) http://www.loelem.santacruz.k12.ca.us/classrooms/library/webquest.htm
- 4) Colonial Times (4th grade) by
Carol Carroll http://www.oswego.org/staff/ccarroll/webquests/colonial/
- 5) ColonialQuest http://eagle.edcoe.k12.ca.us/etweb/webquest/Colonies/colonywq.html
- 6) Colonial Williamsburg http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/WebQuests/Colonial%20Williamsburg/index.html
- 7) Life in a Colonial Village
(Grade 5) by Mary Beth Kiser http://www.edina.k12.mn.us/concord/classes/5/kiser/cvwbqust/webquest.html
- 8) Royal Charter From the King
(Grade 5) http://www.itdc.sbcss.k12.ca.us/curriculum/charter.html
- 9) Welcome to the New World
http://www.crpc.rice.edu/CRPC/GT/jamerson/Colony/
- 10) Williamsburg Gazette by Sallie
Kate Angus, Jennie Buechner, Meghan
Carroll, and Sarah Keenan (Grade 5)
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~jlb4p/Webquest/studentpage.html
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- Websites By Kids For Kids
- Colonial
Kids: A Celebration of Life in Southeastern
Pennsylvania in the 1700's
- (Award-winning 2000 ThinkQuest Junior
Project)
- http://library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/
- Life as a colonist is uniquely presented
through the eyes of children who lived during this
period of American history. Their daily routines,
schooling, home life, and recreation are brought to
life with stories and facts as told by the children
who would have experienced them.
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- Colonial
Stamp Project (Germantown Academy, Grade
4)
- http://www.ga.k12.pa.us/academics/LS/4/sstudies/Colonial/SThomepg.htm
- This site contains student reports on the
people, places, and events in Colonial
America.
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- Colonial
Webpage (Grade 5, Cadwallader School, San
Jose, California)
- http://www.esd.k12.ca.us/Cadwallader/Room%2020/Colonies/Main.html
- This website has information on the three
groups of colonies: the New England Colonies, the
Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies.
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- Early
American Newsletters (Grade 7, Pocantico
Hills School, Sleepy Hollow, New York)
- http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/earlyam/earlyam.htm
- Here you can read newsletters written by
students studying early American history.
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- Lost
Colony in Roanoke: A Mystery in History
(ThinkQuest Junior Project)
- http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/3826/intro.html
- Learn about the mystery behind the
disappearance of this first English settlement in
the New World in 1587.
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- Puritans
by Nate
- http://www.ga.k12.pa.us/academics/LS/4/sstudies/Colonial/4K/4k98/4knkm.htm
- At this site, you can read a student report on
this religious group.
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- More Colonial Life Websites
- Colonial
America (Grade 5)
- http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/travilahes/colonialframe.html
- Learn more about life in colonial America by
joining a school visit to reconstructed historical
sites in Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown,
Virginia.
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- Colonial
Life
- http://hastings.ci.lexington.ma.us/Colonial/Life/Life.html
- What did people wear? What did they eat? Find
out more about life in the Colonies.
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- Colonial
Life in Virginia
- http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/7647/colonial.htm
- This website summarizes the reasons for
European immigration to the New World, events in
17th century Virginia, and the three-tiered class
system.
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- Colonial
Period at An Outline of American History
(United States Information Agency)
- http://www.usemb.se/usis/history/chapter2.html
- Learn about the education, government, and
history of the American colonial era.
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- Contact:
Europe and America Meet,
1492-1620
- http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec2/essay02.html
- This essay examines why Europeans colonized the
Americas.
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- Cycles
of U.S. History - Colonial Cycle (Advanced
Level)
- http://www.seanet.com/Users/pamur/colo.html
- This site contains timelines, historical
information, maps, and links to numerous sites on
colonial history and topics.
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- Diversity
and Phyllis Wheatley at Liberty: Chronicle
of a Revolution
- http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle/diversity-phyllisw.html
- This site has a description of the different
people and religions found in the colonies.
- Related Section at Liberty: Chronicle of a
Revolution:
- 2) Daily Life in the Colonies http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/perspectives/dailylife.html
- Another Related Website:
- 3) Chronicling Black Lives in Colonial New
England from the Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1997/10/29/feat/feat.1.html
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- Early
America at Outline of American
History
- http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/chap1.htm
- This site includes descriptions of early
American life and colonial times.
- Related Section at Outline of American
History:
- 2) Colonial Period http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/chap2.htm
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- Early
Colonial Era: Beginnings to 1700 at The
History Place
- http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/rev-early.htm
- This is the site of a timeline of events in
colonial America.
- Related Timeline Websites:
- 2) English Colonial Era :700 to 1763 http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/rev-col.htm
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- Schooling,
Education, and Literacy, In Colonial
America
- http://alumni.cc.gettysburg.edu/~s330558/schooling.html
- Here you find information about education in
the Colonies.
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- Websites For Teachers
- American
Life: A Comparison of Colonial Life to
Todayís Life by Phyllis Grenet
(Grade 1)
- http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1990/5/90.05.04.x.html
- This plan focuses on school, clothing, games
and toys, cooking, furniture and homes in colonial
Connecticut.
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- Colonial
America Thematic Unit (Grade 4-5) by Karen
Sutton
- http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/colunit.htm
- The unit can span the entire curriculum
culminating in a "Colonial Days" fair to showcase
the students' knowledge of everyday colonial life
through games, food, arts & crafts, costume,
skits, etc.
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- Colonial
America: 1600-1776 (Carol Hurst's
Children's Literature Newsletter)
- http://www.carolhurst.com/newsletters/newsletters11f.html
- This site lists possible discussions,
activities and works of literary merit for study of
colonial life.
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- Colonial
Living: A Look at the Arts, Crafts, History, and
Literature of Early Americans by Kelley
O'Rourke
- http://130.132.143.21/ynhti/curriculum/units/1992/4/92.04.02.x.html
- This curriculum plan combines literature and
social studies and involves making 'johnny cake'
and dying fabric.
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- Life
in Early America (Grade 3) by Kimberly Cox
Burkett and Brenda Morton
- http://www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/Colony.htm
- In this thematic collaborative unit, students
will explore the people, places, and events of life
in the early settlements and colonies of the United
States of America.
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- Created by
Annette
Lamb and
Larry
Johnson, 1/99,
Update by Nancy
Smith,
12/01.
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