Colonial America
 

• A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla
  • http://www.eduplace.com/tview/pages/l/A_Lion_to_Guard_Us_Clyde_Robert_Bulla.html
  • http://www.arlington.k12.va.us/instruct/esol_hilt/language_arts/middschl/HILTB/lionguard.html
    
• Across the Wide Dark Sea: The Mayflower Journey by Jean Van Leeuwen
  • Build a model of the Mayflower:
    http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/3/5/model.html
  • Mayflower journey:
    http://teacher.scholastic.com/thanksgiving/mayflower/index.htm
  • http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/
  • Study questions and travel diary:
    http://emintsteachers.more.net/williaml/rdg/across%20the%20wide%20dark%20sea.htm
    
• Calico Bush by Rachel Field [NB honor]
  
• Charlie's House by Clyde Robert Bulla
  
• Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth by Patricia Clapp
  
• Discovery of the Americas, The by Betsy Maestro *V
  
• Encounter by Jane Yolen
  • Review:
    http://www.buildingrainbows.com/review/reviewid/3096
  • Lesson plan:
    http://www.mala.bc.ca/www/discover/educate/smithn/lessons/fncult/trfirst.htm
  • Lesson plans:
    http://www.teachnet-lab.org/chicago/jo/sem1/kr/columbus.htm
  • Lesson plans:
    http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/98-99/encountr.htm
    
• If you Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 by Ann McGovern
  • Ann McGovern Teacher file:
    http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/mcgovern.htm
  • Thanksgiving unit study:
    http://www.everythingesl.net/lessons/gobble.php
  • Writing Lesson Plan:
    http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/YLP/97-98/97-98_units/97-98mini-unit/LCaravia_BookMaking/BookMaking8.html
    
• A Journey to the New World by Kathryn Lasky [Dear America series]
  • Behind the Scenes:
    http://www.scholastic.com/dearamerica/video/behindscenes/journey.htm
  • Related arts and crafts:
    http://www.scholastic.com/dearamerica/books/dearamerica/newworldfs.htm
    
• Old Silver Leg Takes Over by Robert Quakenbush
  • Robert Quakenbush:
    http://www.nysoclib.org/kids/quackenbush.html
  • Carol Hurst Colonial books and activity page:
    http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/ushistory/colonial.html
  • Core Knowledge Colonial Heritage lesson plan:
    http://www.ckcolorado.org/units/3rd_grade/3_OurColonialHeritage.pdf
    
• On the Day Peter Stuyvesant Sailed Into Town by Arnold Lobel
  • Lesson plans:
http://www.eduplace.com/tview/pages/o/On_The_Day_Peter_Stuyvesant_Sailed_Into_Town_Arnold_Lobel.html
• Peter Stuyvesant/Dutch Colonies:
  http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/kingston/colonization.htm
• Pedro's Journal: A Voyage with Christopher Columbus
• Explorers activities:
  http://streetcat.bnkst.edu/CFDOCS/LessonPlans.cfm?Identifier=pedro
• Lesson plans:
  http://www.eduplace.com/tview/pages/p/Pedro_s_Journal_Pam_Conrad.html
  
• People of the Breaking Day by Marcia Sewell
  • Overview:
    http://www.kstrom.net/isk/books/children/ch75.html
  • Marcia Sewell:
    http://www.kidspoint.org/columns2.asp?column_id=633&column_type=author
  • Jamestown Online Adventure:
    http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown/
    
• Pilgrims of Plimouth by Marcia Sewell
  • Plymouth Lesson plans:
    http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/plymouth/
  • Colonial American unit study:
    http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/units/colonialamerica.html
  • Marcia Sewell:
    http://www.kidspoint.org/columns2.asp?column_id=633&column_type=author
  • Plimouth Plantation:
    http://www.plimoth.org/
    
• Sarah Morton's Day by Kate Waters
  • Lesson plans:
    http://www.eduplace.com/tview/pages/s/Sarah_Morton_s_Day__A_Day_in_the_Life_of_a_Pilgrim_Girl_Kate_Waters.html
• Lesson plans:
  http://www.teachervision.fen.com/lesson-plans/lesson-3239.html
  
• Stories of the Pilgrims by Margaret Pumphries
  • Read book online:
    http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=pumphrey&book=pilgrims&story=_contents
    
• The Baker's Dozen by Heather Forest
  
• The Boy Who Sailed with Columbus by Michael Foreman
  
• The Landing of the Pilgrims by James Daugherty[SON]
  • Pilgrims paintings and background:
http://www.scarborough.k12.me.us/wis/teachers/dtewhey/webquest/colonial/pilgrims.htm
• Poem:
  http://www3.nf.sympatico.ca/mhennebury/pilgram.html
  
• The Light and the Glory by Peter Marshall
  
• Thunder from the Clear Sky by Marcia Sewell
  • Writing assignment:
    http://fc.mosesbrown.org/read/projects/marpro.html
  • Marcia Sewell:
    http://www.kidspoint.org/columns2.asp?column_id=633&column_type=author
  • Carol Hurst Colonial page:
    http://www.carolhurst.com/newsletters/newsletters11f.html
    
• US History: Joy Hakim From Colonies to Country
  
• US History: Joy Hakim Making Thirteen Colonies
  
• US History: Joy Hakim The First Americans
  
• Where Do You Think You're Going Christopher Columbus by Jean Fritz
  • Columbus activities:
    http://www.mcps.org/linkous/creativity/columbus/columbus-00.html
  • Jean Fritz:
    http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/fritz.html
    
• Who's that Stepping on Plymouth Rock? by Jean Fritz
  
  • Plymouth Rock activities:
    http://www.narragansettbsa.org/PDF/resources/Council%20Forms/Pilgrims%20of%20Plymouth%20Rock.pdf
  • Jean Fritz:
    http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/fritz.html
• Carol Hurst on Jean Fritz:
  http://www.carolhurst.com/authors/jfritz.html
  
  
  Videos:
  
• Jamestown: The Beginning
  
• American Rock
  
• Videos about the Pilgrims:
  http://www.fpcjackson.org/resources/church_history/pilgrimsandthanksgiving/pilgrimsbooks.htm
  

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