Colonial America Lesson Plans

Life in the Middle Colonies Activities

• Candle Making

• Model of a Colonial Kitchen

• Make Butter

• Coloring pictures of New Jersey and Delaware from Educational Coloring Book of the Colonies

Quaker Activities

• Make a patchwork quilt

• Stenciling

Day 2 The Southern Colonies

Vocabulary

• representative

• artisan

• legislature

• indigo

Students Read

Southern Colonies

Southern Life Activities

• Coloring picture of New York from Educational Coloring Book of the Colonies

• Make soap.

• Make a rag doll.

• Make a fan.

• Build a Southern Plantation.

Map Skills

Label the 13 Colonies http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/label/13/13.shtml

Day 3 Spanish Settlements

Vocabulary

• representative

• artisan

• legislature

• indigo

Students read Spanish Settlements.

Activities for Spanish Settlements .

1. The explorers were introduced to new foods they had never seen or tasted before. Chocolate was one of these foods. The cacao tree grew wild in America. In the early 1500's when Hernando Cortez conquered Mexico, the Aztec emperor Montezuma served him a drink called chocolate. Cortez brought the beverage back to Spain. With sugar, vanilla, and cinnamon added to sweeten the bitter drink, it became a favorite with the Spanish aristocracy. In the 1600s the drink won popularity among the upper classes in France and England. Make a cup of hot chocolate.

2. Make two lists: one of foods, plants, and animals that were familiar to the Old World and one of foods, plants, and animals that were familiar to the New World. Go here to compare your lists to the ones we made.

 

Day 4 French Settlements

Vocabulary

• representative

• artisan

• legislature

• indigo

Read French Settlements

Activities

Learn about the beaver. What was this animal like? Why was its fur so highly prized? What did the French make from the beavers' fur?

Map Activities

• Instructional Fair, Inc. #IF8552 U. S. Map Skills pages 15-17

• United States and Its Neighbors Chapter 7, Building Geography Skills page 47

• Life in Colonial America "Land Claims in North America by 1670"

Discuss barter system and concept of supply and demand.

Brain Pop - Money

Bartering Activity - Students bring in item worth $1.00-$2.00 to barter.

Day 5 Review and Test

Test