Colonial America Lesson Plans

Week #2 - Lesson Plans for New England Colonies

 

Day 1 Geography of the Colonies

Vocabulary

• growing season

• town meeting

• dissenter

• industry

The 13 Colonies Website http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/13colonies2.htm

 

Day 2 New England Colonies

Vocabulary

• growing season

• town meeting

• dissenter

• industry

Lecture Notes

• John Mason took group of people from Massachusetts Bay Colony to find more fertile farming land (too rocky in Massachusetts) and to worship freely

• settled in Portsmouth and found New Hampshire Colony

• two men decided to leave Massachusetts Bay Colony and begin colonies of their won

• (1) Roger Williams Puritan minister

• believed church leaders should not be colony leaders

• believed Indians should be paid for land

• Puritan leaders wanted to send Williams back to England, but escaped in 1636 and founded Rhode Island Colony (which he bought from Indians)

• allowed everyone to practice their own religion

• (2) Thomas Hooker minister

• left Massachusetts Bay Colony with 35 families to form the Connecticut Colony

• families walked 2 weeks before reaching the site which is now Hartford

• By 1636 four New England Colonies founded

  • Connecticut

  • Massachusetts

  • Rhode Island

  • New Hampshire

• fished and built ships

• also carried on much of slave trade

Activities

• Make a horn book.

• Dress Up  -  Learn about the unfamiliar clothing that Americans have worn throughout our nation's history. These interactive files require the Flash Player.http://www.memorialhall.mass.edu/activities/dressup/index.html

 

Day 3 Life in New England

1. Review vocabulary

   • growing season

   • town meeting

   • dissenter

   • industry

2. Triangle Trade Activity

3. Have students look at the chart in their folders and answer the following questions.

   1. The settlement used as a trading center was __________.

   2. The colonies set up for religious purposes were ______________.

   3. The first British settlement in the New World was _____________________ in the colony of _____________ settled in the year _________________.

4. Have students find the four New England colonies on the map.

5. Activity

   Read to the students "Lighting the Colonial House".
   Have students use the picture wheel to tell the story of how candles were made.
   Have students make a hand dipped candle.

6. Play Thirteen Colonies Game

   Have students try to throw pennies one at a time on a floor map of the 13 colonies. Students try to land on Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, or Connecticut. Students earn points for each colony their penny lands in without touching any lines on the map. Students must name the colony before receiving the points.

7. Coloring pictures of Rhode Island and Connecticut from Educational Coloring Book of the Colonies

 

Day 4 Maps and Globes

This day originally had many links to activities that taught the skills that are now listed as Tennessee Standard 3.01. Unfortunately, all the links that were originally here are no longer active .

Day 5 Review and Test

Review and Test

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