Real Estate In
Colonial America
Standards
Main Standard:
SS4H3 The student will explain the factors that shaped British colonial America.
a. Compare and contrast life in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies.
b. Describe colonial life in America as experienced by various people, including large landowners, farmers,
artisans, women, indentured servants, slaves, and Native Americans.
Related Standards:
ELA4R3 The student understands and acquires new vocabulary and uses it correctly in reading and writing.
a.
Reads a variety of texts and incorporates new words into oral and written language.
ELA4LSV1 The student participates in student-to-teacher, student-to-student,
and group verbal interactions. The student
a. Initiates new topics in addition to responding to adult-initiated topics.
b. Asks relevant questions.
c. Responds to questions with appropriate information.
d. Uses language cues to indicate different levels of certainty or hypothesizing
(e.g., “What if. . .”; “Very likely. . .”; “I’m unsure whether. . .”).
e. Confirms understanding by paraphrasing the adult’s directions or suggestions.
f. Displays appropriate turn-taking behaviors.
g. Actively solicits another person’s comments or opinions.
h. Offers own opinion forcefully without domineering.
i. Responds appropriately to comments and questions.
j. Volunteers contributions and responds when directly solicited by teacher or
discussion leader.
k. Gives reasons in support of opinions expressed.
l. Clarifies, illustrates, or expands on a response when asked to do so; asks classmates
for similar expansions.
ELA4LSV2 The student listens to and views various forms of text and media in
order to gather and share information, persuade others, and express and understand ideas.
When responding to visual and oral texts and media (e.g., television, radio,
film productions, and electronic media), the student:
a. Demonstrates an awareness of the presence of the media in the daily lives of
most people.
Standards Continued
Related Standards:
M4N3. Students will solve problems involving multiplication of 2-3 digit numbers by 1 or 2 digit numbers.
SS4CG4 The student will explain the importance of Americans sharing certain central democratic beliefs and principles, both
personal and civic.
a. Explain the necessity of respecting the rights of others and promoting the common good.
b. Explain the necessity of obeying reasonable laws/rules voluntarily, and explain why it is important for citizens in a democratic
society to participate in public (civic) life (staying informed, voting, volunteering, communicating with public officials).
M4N3. Students will solve problems involving multiplication of 2-3 digit numbers by 1 or 2 digit numbers.
SS4CG4 The student will explain the importance of Americans sharing certain central democratic beliefs and principles, both
personal and civic.
a. Explain the necessity of respecting the rights of others and promoting the common good.
b. Explain the necessity of obeying reasonable laws/rules voluntarily, and explain why it is important for citizens in a democratic
society to participate in public (civic) life (staying informed, voting, volunteering, communicating with public officials).
SS4G2 The student will describe how physical systems affect human systems.
c. Explain how the physical geography of the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies helped determine economic
activities practiced therein.
SS4E1 The student will use the basic economic concepts of trade, opportunity cost, specialization, voluntary exchange,
productivity, and price incentives to illustrate historical events.
c. Describe how specialization improves standards of living (such as the differences in the economies in the New England, MidAtlantic, and Southern colonies).
d. Explain how voluntary exchange helps both buyers and sellers (such as prehistoric and colonial trade in North America).
e. Describe how trade promotes economic activity (such as how trade between the colonies and England affected their
economies).
Task
You have just arrived in Colonial America by way of
Professor Money Bags’ time machine. Your job is to
learn all that you can about the region of the colonies
you have been assigned. Your goal is to be able to
convince a group of settlers to move to your area. You
will design a colonial home that fits the needs of the
area as well as the settlers.
Process
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Within your group you will explore your region’s web quest.
You will research the colony background, land, government, and economy as a group.
Each team member will be responsible for taking the role of a typical settler. You will need to
learn all about life for this type of colonist.
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Realtor1: Women
Realtor2: Children
Realtor3: Farmers
Realtor4: Merchants
Next, come together as a group to discuss how your colonists’ life is alike or different from your
other group members’ colonial lives.
Now, using all that you have learned design a house as a group that you would be able to sell to a
group of settlers. To sell the home you will need to create a Real Estate flyer to advertise your
home to the setters. Each group member’s responsibility is to make sure that the needs of their
colonial person are advertised and convincing.
Once your real estate team has created a house to sell and an advertisement flyer decide on how
you will present this to the next boat of settlers arriving in the 13 colonies. Be creative in the
presentation and look at the rubric for required elements.
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Creating Your Advertisement
– Creating Your House
– Creating Your Presentation
Creating Your Advertisement
Rubric
Remember be creative and follow the rubric! As you
go through the quest think about what you are learning and
how you can use it to help sell your home. You want the
settlers to move to your area so take good notes and apply
what you learn!
Creating Your House
Rubric
Creating Your Presentation
Rubric
Remember be creative! You are trying to convince the settlers to
move to your region. Use what you have learned throughout your quest to
make your colony appealing for all. Most importantly have fun!
New England Colonies
Mid Atlantic Colonies
Southern Colonies