*(Easy)

Fritz, Jean; What's The Big Idea, Ben Franklin?

Fritz, Jean; Who's That Stepping on Plymouth Rock?

Van Leeuwen, Jean; Across the Wide Dark Sea: The Mayflower Journey
 

*(Average)

Barrett, Tracy; Growing Up in Colonial America

Duey,Kathleen; Sarah Anne Hartford: Massachusetts, 1651

Kent, Deborah; African-Americans in the Thirteen Colonies

Lawson, Robert; Ben and Me: Benjamin Franklin as Written by his Good Mouse Amos

McGovern, Ann; If You Lived in Colonial Times

Madison, Arnold; How the Colonists Lived

Perl, Lila; Slumps, Grunts ans Snickerdoodles: What Colonial America Ate and Why

Speare, Elizabeth; Sign of the Beaver also good for standard 5.3

Tunis, Edwin; Colonial Living
 

*(Challenging)

Collier, Christopher, and Collier, James; The Paradox of Jamestown: Freedom and Slavery in the Virginia Colony

Fleischman, Paul; Saturnalia H/F: a boy in 1681 Boston

Lester, Julius; To Be a Slave

O'Dell, Scott; The Serpent Never Sleeps: A Novel of Jamestown and Pocahontas

Speare, Elizabeth; The Witch of Blackbird Pond
 

*(Read-Alouds)

Clapp, Patricia; Constance, A Story of Early Plymouth

Franklin, Benjamin; Poor Richard's Almanack primary source / pithy sayings

Hamilton, Virginia; Many Thousand Gone  accounts of slavery

Hawthorne, Nathaniel; True Stories from History and Biography

Irving, Washington; Rip Van Winkle John Howe version retells

Irving, Washington; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Robert San Souci version retells

Speare, Elizabeth; The Witch of Blackbeard Pond

Ziner, Feenie; Squanto
 

*(Resource)

Sloane, Eric; An ABC Book of Early Americana

Video:

As It Was in Colonial America  EMC#885747  45 mins

Basketmaking in Colonial Williamsburg  EMC#881417  28 mins  dated

Colonial America: 1400-1600  EMC#884256  60 mins

Colonial America: Life in the Maturing Colonies  EMC#883554  17 mins

Colonial Children  EMC#883141  11 mins  dated

Colonial Life in New England  EMC#885621  10 mins  dated

Colonial Life in The Middle Colonies  EMC#885622  10 mins  dated

Colonial Life in The South  EMC#885592  11 mins  dated

Colonial Living  EMC#884204  15 mins  dated

Colonial Way of Life  EMC#882801  26 mins  dated

Colonizing North America: Early Settlements  EMC#883553 18 mins

Colonial America: Life in the Maturing Colonies  EMC#883554 17 mins

Cooper's Craft  EMC#881418  29 mins  dated

Early Colonists  EMC#884209  24 mins

Early Settlers  EMC#885727  25 mins

English and Dutch Colonization  EMC#880233  15 mins

Era of Colonization  EMC#885733  30 mins

Forged in Wood: Building America's Blacksmith Shop  EMC#881923  29 mins  dated

Hammerman in Williamsburg  EMC#882674  37 mins  dated

How the Colonies Grew  EMC#885360  10 mins

James Forte at Jamestown  EMC#882078  15 mins  dated

Jamestown  EMC#885076  14 mins  dated

Jamestown: As It Was in Colonial America  EMC#882775  15 mins

Light Here Kindled  EMC#884203  26 mins  Pilgrims' journey

The Musical Instrument Maker of Williamsburg  EMC#882675  40 mins  dated

New England Colonies  EMC#881803  15 mins

New France  EMC#881801  15 mins

New Spain  EMC#881800  15 mins

On A Dutch Manor  EMC#882778  15 mins

Pilgrim Journey  EMC#881419  24 mins

The Pilgrims at Plymouth  EMC#885115  23 mins

Plymouth Plantation  EMC#882776  15 mins

Puritan Experience: Making a New World  EMC#880855  31 mins  dated

Puritan Family of Early New England  EMC#880258  11 mins

Struggle for Freedom: African-American Heritage EMC#885050  82 mins  advanced

Southern Colonies  EMC#881802  15 mins

Virginia Plantations  EMC#883372  30 mins

Where America Began: Jamestown, and Colonial  EMC#882228  60 mins

William Penn and the Quakers  EMC#880269  15 mins

Williamsburg  EMC#882777  14 mins

Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope  EMC#881916  32 mins  dated
 

Software:

Colonization  EMC#770019  CD-ROM simulation

Salem Witch Trials MECC
 

Internet:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia  
Slavery

http://pbs.org/ktca/newtons/
15/sunken.html  
Slave ship simulation

http://www.history.org/
almanack.htm  
Williamsburg site

http://nationalgeographic
.com/Salem  
Salem witch trials

http://www.geocities.com:
80/Athens/Forum/9061/afro/
slave.html  
Slavery

http://www.ushistory.org/
life/life.htm

http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/
rotten.html  
Ben Franklin

http://earlyamerica.com
/earlyamerica/index.html

http://members.aol.com/
calebj/mayflower.html  
Mayflower

http://odur.let.rug.nl./~usa/
D/1601-1650/mittelberger/
servan.htm  
Acct. of an indentured servant

http://www.stratfordhall.org/  
Tour of birthplace of Robt. E Lee

http://wwwpbs.org/wgbh/aia/tguide/
1index.html  
History of North American slavery

http://www.lacoe.edu/cia/history
/williamsburg98/smith.html

Colonial Williamsburg
http://www.history.org/
almanack.htm*
Description: This is a rich resource with pages of facts about important people and events of the Colonial Period. 
Comments: Takes time to load.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Explore the Amazing World of Early America
http://earlyamerica.com/
earlyamerica/index.html*
Description: Using the media of the day including newspapers, magazines, and art, discover how the people in colonial times saw the world. There are wonderful primary source mateirals here to explore.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

Mayflower on the Web
http://members.aol.com/
calebj/mayflower.html*
Description: This is a complete site with history of the Mayflower, inventory, passenger lists, primary documents such as the Mayflower Compact and Thanksgiving Proclamation.
Comments: Easy to use.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

Misfortune of Indentured Servants
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/
D/1601-1650/mittelberger/
servan.htm*
Description: This copy of Gottlieb Mittelberger's 1754 description of the voyage to America will make you glad you live in the 20th century.
Comments: This is a gripping primary source.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: Low
 

The First Thanksgiving
http://media3.com/plymouth/
thanksgiving.htm*
Description: This site gives a description of the frist thanksgiving and has links to more information on this topic.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

The Terrible Transformation
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/
aia/tguide/1index.html*
Description: At the beginning of the 17th century, both rich and poor Britons see the newly established American colonies as the land of opportunity. As changes in England's economy and word of hardships in America stem the flow of white bond servants, English planters bring more enslaved Africans to America to raise their profitable tobacco, sugar, and rice crops and to provide other forms of labor in the North. Gradually, laws are enacted that define legal status by race, ensuring that Africans and their descendants will be slaves. Resistance leads to rebellions in South Carolina and New York. The impact of slavery is felt by everyone -- North and South, black and white, the enslaved and the enslaver. 
Comments: This site accompanies the PBS Africans in America series, segment number one.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Benjamin Franklin: Glimpses of the Man
http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/
rotten.html*
Description: Learn about Benjamin Franklin's contributions as a scientist, inventor, statesman, printer, philosopher, musician and economist.
Comments: Some of the text is fairly difficult reading for young students, but the pictures are invaluable primary sources. 
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Excerpts from Slave Narratives
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/
mintz/primary.htm*
Description: This site has 46 excerpts from stories by and about slavery and the African American experience from 1682-1937. 
Comments: The resources are clear and accurate but the format is text only and difficult for young students. The source is identified at the bottom of each passage.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

Images from Plimoth Plantation
http://spirit.lib.uconn.edu/
ArchNet/Topical/Historic/
Plimoth/Plimoth.html*
Description: This site has photos of life at Plimoth Plantation.

Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Jamestown Rediscovery Archaeological Project
http://www.widomaker.com/
~apva/*
Description: Pictures, diagrams, and text describe the work being done by archaeologists at the Jamestown Rediscovery Project.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High

http://www.ofcn.org/cyber.serv/
academy/ace/soc/elem.html

gopher://bvsd.k12.co.us:70/11/
Educational_Resources/Lesson_
Plans/Big%20Sky/social_studies

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/

http://www.mcrel.org/connect/plus

http://www.trinity.edu/departments/
education/core/newplans.htm

http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/
Lessons/crossroads

http://talk.startribune.com/
cgi-bin/WebX.cgi?homework-
14@@.ee6b2b9  
homework help

http://www.hmco.com/hmco/school/
search/activity.html  
*Houghton Mifflin

http://www.mcrel.org/connect/
lesson.html#social

http://www.nwrel.org/sky/
Classroom/Social_Studies/
Social_Studies.html

http://www.nationalgeographic.
com/resources/ngo/education/
ideas.html

http://www.rims.k12.ca.us/SCORE/

http://www.eduplace.com/ss/  
*Houghton Mifflin supplemental 
games, quizes maps

http://www.socialstudies.com/
index.html

http://www.mmhschool.com/
teach/socialstud/socstu1.html

Plymouth Plantation
Viewable on the 1999 CTAP CD-ROM!
This activity is designed to enable elementary students to gain an understanding of how early Americans lived. This activity features a virtual tour of the Plymouth plantation as well as map work and letter writing. 
Author: Linda M. Ricchiuti - CTAP Curriculum Specialist
 

A Royal Charter from the King
http://www.itdc.sbcss.k12.
ca.us/curriculum/charter.html*
Know ye that His Royal Highness, the King of England, has hereby offered his approval to a venture establishing a colony across the seas on the shores of North America. This privilege has been extended to thy group contingent upon thou providing plans for such a colony. Such plans will, to the best available knowledge, insure the success of the colony and the health and welfare of the King's subjects. 
Author: Stuart Kornbluth 
 

Acrimony in Bruton Parish Church
http://www.history.org/*
In 1773 Williamsburg was not without excitement. One of the more interesting events was Bruton Parish's search for a new rector. The church had filled its vacant minister's position numerous times before with little difficulty. But this time the search involved a clash of personalities and religious doctrines. This role play activity will demonstrate to students the importance of religion in the eighteenth century and the involvement of citizens in the selection of the rector of Bruton Parish Church. To access this lesson, click on "Teach History" and then "Classroom Tested Lesson Plans".
Author: Colonial Williamsburg Foundaton
 

Sign of the Beaver
http://www.sdcoe.k12.
ca.us/score/beav/
beavtg.html*
Explore Native American culture and beliefs of the Northeast and life in early colonial times as you read Sign of the Beaver.
Author: Bonnie Elias

A detailed version of this simulation may be found at:

http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/
curry/dept/cise/soc/resources/jvc/
unit/webquests/

Standards for assessing this evaluation may be found at:

http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/
curry/dept/cise/soc/resources/jvc/
unit/webquests/news/eval.html

Using George Caleb Bingham's painting, "Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap," each student selects one person in the picture and writes an essay that includes why that person is on the trip, the obstacles the person likely encountered, and the opportunities and problems the person might have faced in the future.