Social Studies - 5th Grade
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Standard 1

Students will understand how the exploration and colonization of North America transformed human history.

• American Colonial Life in the Late 1700s: Distant Cousins
  After completing these activities, students will be able to: identify the original thirteen British colonies on a map; understand how physical geography affected settlement; understand how settlers' backgrounds influenced their values, priorities, and daily lives; examine artifacts and make inferences about the people and the historical periods that they represent; imagine typical daily life for different families in colonial America in the late 1700s; write a letter from the viewpoint of someone who lived in a different time and place.
• Colonial America (1492-1763) - Jump Back in Time
  Learn about Colonial America and influential leaders of that time.
• Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian: Photographic Images
  This American Memory, a Library of Congress project, includes pictures of The North American Indians.
• Explorers
  The Enchanted Learning features and alphabetical listing of the explorers. Click on the appropriate letter of the alphabet to find an explorer.
• Harvest Ceremony: Beyond the Thanksgiving Myth
  This lesson assists teachers in preparing lessons about the first Thanksgiving. The study guide includes information on which Native peoples met the first European immigrants in 1621, the harvest celebration, the Wampanoag today, the importance of corn, and instructions on how to make Johnny cakes.
• On the Oregon Trail
  In this lesson, students work with primary documents and latter-day photographs to recapture the experience of traveling on the Oregon Trail.
• PBS Find a Face Game
  Match famous black Americans with their triumphs in a four level game.
• The 13 American Colonies
  Learn about the original settlements made in the Americas.
• The First Thanksgiving: Daily Life
  Compares and contrasts lifestyles of Native Americans and colonists.
• The Six Nations: Oldest Living Participatory Democracy on Earth
  Learn about the the people of the Six Nations, also known by the French term, Iroquois [1] Confederacy. Located in the northeastern region of North America, originally the Six Nations was five and included the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas. Their story, and governance truly based on the consent of the governed, contains a great deal of life-promoting intelligence for those of us not familiar with this area of American history. In our present day, we can benefit immensely, in our quest to establish anew a government truly dedicated to all life's liberty and happiness much as has been practiced by the Six Nations for over 800 hundred years.
• What Was Columbus Thinking?
  With this lesson students will understand the purposes of Columbus's voyages, the change in those purposes over time, the native peoples encountered, and the results of Columbus's voyages.
• You Are the Historian: Investigating the First Thanksgiving
  An interactive site that helps students correct misconceptions of the role of Native Americans in Plymouth.

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