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| General Colonial | |
| Interactive Puzzle on the Colonies | |
| Interactive Puzzle on the Colonies | |
| 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 | |
| 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 Colony, Fact vs. Fiction - A Lesson for 7th and 8th graders |
| Jamestown and Pocohontos- Using the movie | Jamestown Journey- A 2 week lesson on the founding of the colony and the book the Double Life of Pocohontas |
| Plymouth | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
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