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
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.
