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Colonial America - Electronic Resources 2010
Dear Fifth Graders,
I have gathered some materials to help you do research to
prepare your speeches for the Colonial Convention.
You will be most successful when you build a “search phrase” for
a search engine (like Google). For example, if you are
researching the occupation of Colonial Doctor, create a search
phrase like Colonial America + Medicine or American Colonies +
Medicine, or Thirteen American Colonies + Medicine.
Mrs. Sjostedt
Online Subscription Database
Grolier Online
www.go.grolier.com
While on campus at SJES, the username and password are cardinal,
onsite.
Remote access (from home), go to SJES website, then to Campus
Resources. Go to Library/Library Resources, then Encyclopedia,
then Grolier. Username and password from home are both stjes
Helpful Research Portals
Kids Search Tools
www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm
Ivy’s Search Engine Resources for Kids
http://www.ivyjoy.com/rayne/kidsearch.html
TekMom’s Search Tools for Students
http://www.tekmom.com/search
Search Engines & Children’s Directories
Parents: for tips on filtering options for major search
engines, go to http://searchenginewatch.com/2156191.
About.com www.about.com
ALA Great Web Sites for Kids www.ala.org/greatsites
Ask.com: http://www.ask.com/?jr=true
Awesome Library www.awesomelibrary.com
Dibdabdoo www.dibdabdoo.com
Fact Monster www.factmonster.com
FirstGov for Kids www.kids.gov
Google: www.google.com
KidsClick www.kidsclick.org
MSN www.msn.com
Quintura Kids www.quinturakids.com
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Yahooligans:
www.yahooligans.com
Meta Search Engines
A meta search engine searches search engines.
Clusty www.clusty.com
Dogpile www.dogpile.com
Info.com www.info.com
Ixquick www.ixquick.com
Surfwax www.surfwax.com
Specific Colonial Research
American Centuries
History and Art from New England-Memorial Hall Museum Online
http://www.americancenturies.mass.edu/
American History, Independence Hall Foundation
http://www.ushistory.org/us/index.asp
America’s Story
(from “America’s Library”, the kids site for the Library of
Congress)
www.americaslibrary.gov
go to “Jump Back in Time”
Colonial America 1492-1763
Awesome Stories “the story place of the web”
American Colonies http://www.awesomestories.com/history/am-
colonies
Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com/reference/
Bartleby.com Encyclopedia of World History (Colonial timeline
in narrative form)
http://www.bartleby.com/67/933.html
Colonial America
Yahoo
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/B
y_Time_Period/Colonial_America/
Colonial Diseases and Cures
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sam/disease.html
Colonial Family and Community, A
Henry Ford Museum Interactive Website.
http://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/smartfun/colonial/intro/ind
ex.html
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Colonial Occupations
A Student Created ThinkQuest
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215447
Colonial Williamsburg
http://www.history.org/
The “Experience the Life” page has: African American Experience,
Animals, Christmas, Family, Food, Gardening, Manners, Politics,
Religion, Tools and Trades (be sure to look here!)
Colonial Williamsburg
An introduction to 18th Century Clothing
http://www.history.org/history/clothing/intro/index.cfm
Early America-Colonization
Cybrary
http://www.cybrary.org/colonial.htm
Look at Daily Life Section.
Early America Digital Library
Free to view, may be a cost to download. Good for visual
reference. If images are used, please give a credit line
“Courtesy of Early American Digital Library” and a link to the
site.
http://www.earlyamericanimages.com/
Franklin, Ben: Glimpses of the Man
http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/rotten.html
History Channel, The
http://www.history.com
History of the USA-Occupations and Customs
www.usahistory.info/colonial/customs.html
History of the USA-Religion; Education; Medicine
http://www.usahistory.info/colonial/education.html
Home Skills of Early America
Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/2003/2/03.02.07.x.htm
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Internet Public Library
Colonial America Pathfinder created by Patty Gillespie.
web links.
www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48454
Jefferson, Thomas
http://www.monticello.org/jefferson/index.html
Good
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KidsClick
http://www.kidsclick.org/
Annotated searchable directory of websites created for kids by
librarians. Search by subject, by letter, by reading level and
degree of picture content. There is great content for Colonies
under “C” for Colonial Period. Check it out!
KidInfo.com
Colonial Life
www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Colonization_Colonial_Life.html
I recommend this excellent site for kids; it has many sections
of interest.
Kids Space at the Internet Public Library
www.ipl.org/div/kidspace
The Internet Public Library's page for children.
Go to Our World, then History
Life in Colonial Times
Essortment
http://www.essortment.com/all/coloniallifeco_rndd.htm
National Museum of American History
http://americanhistory.si.edu/
Old Sturbridge Village
http://www.osv.org/
Ross, Betsy
USHistory.org
http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flaglife.html
Schooling, Education and Literacy in Colonial America
http://faculty.mdc.edu/jmcnair/Joe28pages/Schooling,%20Education
,%20and%20Literacy%20in%20Colonial%20America.htm
Stratford Hall Plantation
Colonial Music and Dance
http://www.stratfordhall.org/learn/teacher/music.php
Colonial Education
http://www.stratfordhall.org/learn/teacher/education.php
Games http://www.stratfordhall.org
Indentured Servants and Convicts
http://www.stratfordhall.org/learn/teacher/servants.php
Medicine and Health
http://www.stratfordhall.org/learn/teacher/medicine.php
Plantation Life for Slaves
http://www.stratfordhall.org/learn/slavery.php
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Plantation Life
http://www.stratfordhall.org/learn/plantation.php
Talk Like a Pilgrim
http://www.plimoth.org/kids/talk.php
Tradesmen in Colonial America
Pocantico Hills School
http://www.pocanticohills.org/tradesmen/tradesmen.htm