HISTORY SOURCE MATERIALS
Interactive History:
Engage students with quizzes like “Would You Have Survived on the Colony?” along
with many other fun interactive features from Colonial House on PBS:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/colonialhouse/history/index.html
Explore the Plymouth Colony with interactive features like Historical Detective and
Talk like a Pilgrim: http://www.plimoth.org/learn/just-teachers#Resources for
educators
Virtual field trips to Plimoth Plantation:
http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/webcast.htm#
An interactive website with activities like Exploring Maryland’s Roots and Build a
Colonial House can be found at Historic St. Mary’s City:
http://www.stmaryscity.org/Colonial_Kids.html
Lesson Plans:
Lesson plans from Jamestown Settlement on the English, Africans, and Powhatans
who interacted at Jamestown:
http://www.whro.org/jamestown2007/lessonPlans/index.html
Lesson plans concerning archaeology around Plymouth and small science
experiments that can be done in the classroom from the Plymouth Archaeological
Rediscovery Project: http://www.plymoutharch.com/
Lesson plans for elementary, middle, and high school students about the story of
Jamestown: http://historicjamestowne.org/learn/lesson_plans.php
Lesson plan on Narragansett tribe of Rhode Island and interaction with colonists
http://www.rihs.org/images/A_Key_to_Understanding.pdf
Lesson plan to demonstrate to students how language has changed since the 17th
century, What Do You Mean?: How Language Changes Over Time
http://teachinghistory.org/teaching-materials/lesson-plan-reviews/24682
Create heightened research skills with this engaging lesson plan utilizing students’
abilities to analyze primary and secondary sources concerning the Jamestown
starving time, Jamestown: The Starving Time
http://teachinghistory.org/teaching-materials/lesson-plan-reviews/24214
HISTORY SOURCE MATERIALS
Slavery:
Historic essays relating to slavery in the early Virginia colony (text):
Cultures at Jamestown
http://www.historyisfun.org/pdf/From-Africa-to-Virginia/Cultures_at_Jamestown.pdf
The Angolan Connection and Slavery in Virginia
http://www.historyisfun.org/pdf/From-Africa-to-Virginia/TheAngolanConnection.pdf
The Evolution of the Slave Quarter in Tidewater Virginia
http://www.historyisfun.org/slave-quarter.htm
Antislavery Sentiment in Pre-Revolutionary Virginia
http://www.historyisfun.org/antislavery-sentiment.htm
Witchcraft in Colonial America:
An interactive narrative to walk students through the Salem Witch Trials, National
Geographic Salem Witchcraft Hysteria:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/salem/
An interactive map that shows the progress of witchcraft accusations spreading
throughout Salem Village:
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/salem/bcr/salem/salem.html
A Jeopardy! style game testing students’ knowledge of the Salem Witchcraft Trials
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/scopesjeopardy%5B1%5D.htm
A source for links to many web resources concerning 17th Century Colonial New
England with Special Emphasis on the Essex County Witch-Hunt of 1962:
http://www.17thc.us/index.php
Chronology:
Timelines of American Indian history, Women’s history, pre-16th Century, 17th Century,
18th Century, 19th Century, and 20th Century history can be found at the North
Carolina Museum of History:
http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/nchh/seventeenth.html#1600-1625
A brief chronology of events at Jamestown, the earliest permanent settlement in
Virginia (text):
http://www.historyisfun.org/Jamestown-Chrono.htm
Technology:
An explanation of the mechanics of matchlock and flintlock firearms, from
Jamestown Settlement (video):
http://www.historyisfun.org/From-matchlock-to-flintlock.htm