Through The Looking Glass.....

Life In Colonial Times

Resources

Selected Literature Resources

McGovern, Ann. If You Lived In Colonial Times, Scholated, 1990.

Bunting, Eve. How Many Days to America. Illustrated by Beth Peck. Houghton Mifflin, 1988.

Fradin, Dennis. The Thirteen Colonies. Children's Press, 1988.

Kroll, Steven. Oh, What A Thanksgiving. Scholastic, 1988.

Perl, Lila. Slumps, Grunts, and Snickerdoodles: What Colonial America Ate and Why. Illustrated by Richard Cuffari. Clarion, 1975.

Rusche, Diana. Founding the American Colonies. Franklin Watts, 1989. (Good teacher resource)

Waters, Kate. Sarah Morton's Day: A Day in the Life of A Pilgrim Girl. Scholastic, 1989.

__________. Samuel Eaton's Day: A Day in the Life of A Pligrim Boy. Scholastic, 1993.

McGovern, Ann. If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. Illustrated by Anna DiVito.

Sewall, Marcia. People of the Breaking Day. Atheneum, 1990.

Selected Internet Links / Teacher Resources

Cyber Sleuth Kids US History     http://cybersleuth-kids.com/americanhistory/chapter2/societyschoolsculture.htm

Pro Teacher Colonial Times- www.proteacher.com/090021.shtml
A collection of lesson plans and activity ideas for teaching about colonial topics including printable worksheets, maps, and craft ideas.

Virtual Jamestown- www.iath.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/
The Virtual Jamestown Archive is a digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement.

Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Resources- www.history.org/history/teaching/index.cfm
Lesson plans and electronic field trips from the Colonial Williamsburg Web site. Take a look at A Day in the Life: Online Activities, an excellent tool to teach students about social classes in Colonial Times.

Colonial America- http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/Colonial.html
A variety of hotlinks to a variety of Colonial topics including the colonies, clothing, important documents, timelines, and more.

Colonial America K-12 Resources- http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/colonial.htm
Explore the Colonial Period of our history through the Internet. You'll find maps, lesson plans, bibliographies and curriculum content materials here.

Selected Videos

This Is America - The Mayflower Voyagers (Charlie Brown series )

Sarah Morton's Day: A Day in the life of a Pilgrim Girl
           

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