Colonial Life

Here are some useful resources for students who are learning about daily life in Colonial America.

Street Scene in Colonial Williamsburg. Photograph taken by Steve Canipe (Pics4Learning).


Colonial Williamsburg
This is a fun interactive Web site about daily life in Colonial America. There are fun interactive activities such as learning to write with a quill pen, growing a garden, and trying out for the drum corps. You can also see slide shows about different types of jobs, create a colonial postcard and send it to friends, and solve the daily jigsaw puzzle.
From PBS:
Daily Life in the Colonies
Colonial House - Interactive History
On this interactive site you can tour typical colonial houses, watch videos where different types of people in costume talk about their daily lives during colonial times, and play interactive games that introduce you to more information about colonial communities.
A Colonial Family and Community
How would you like to go back in time and become a history detective? On this Web site you can collect clues and answer questions about daily life in a community of farms.

Photographs for Multimedia Presentations

 Boatbuilding on Manhattan Island from Clipart Etc (Florida Center for Instructional Technology)

There are many Web sites that allow schools to use photographs and artwork for educational purposes without asking for fees or permissions. Here are some useful Web sites and links where you can go to find photographs for Glogs and other multimedia presentations:
Pics4Learning: Colonial History 
ClipArt Etc.: Colonial America
Flickr Creative Commons: Colonial America photographs

These are a collection of photographs that you can use for your school reports and presentations as long as you say who took the photograph and/or the Web site you used. Sometimes it is hard to know when you can use an image (photograph or picture) that you find on the Internet. Please contact me if you need help with this. You can also use the links in the Copyright-Friendly Resources list on the right-hand panel of this blog.

Ancient Greece

Photograph of the Parthenon taken by Amanda Holtschlag, from Pics4Learning

I have created an Ancient Greece pathfinder on the school Google Library Site where you will find links to online encyclopedias, E books, and databases. You can also use the resources I gathered on this blog, including Web sites and books, in an earlier posting about Ancient Greece.Don't forget to explore Discovery Education Streaming Plus (DE)  for videos and other multimedia about Ancient Greece. If you forget your user name and password to use DE please contact me via email.

Markets Around the World - Resources for 1st Grade

 Hoi An Market in Vietnam. Photo taken by Terry Rosengart, from Pics4Learning

This research project is one of my favorites because of the colorful dioramas that the first grade students make to present the information they have found about markets around the world. The students love this research project, too! You will find many resources about markets around the world in an earlier post on my blog. Click here to read the posting, which I have updated to include some additional resources. All the books about markets have been borrowed by the first grade teachers and you will find the books in your classrooms. There are many books in the library, including encyclopedias, about countries around the world so don't forget to come in and look at them. You'll also find many books at your local public library. Read my earlier post for useful information to help you with your research.