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Curious about what we will be learning this year? We will...

 

  • Analyze the geography and first people in North America.
  • Take a journey to the new world with the explorers.
  • Compare the 13 colonies and simulate colonial America.
  • Examine the Declaration of Independence.
  • Learn about the American Revolution.
  • Analyze the Constitution and early American government.

 

Here are some great Historical websites we'll be using throughout the year.

 

The Founding of European Colonies

 

Learn more about Jamestown with this interactive game! Make decisions as if you were an English settler in this colony.

 

http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown/

 

 

 The American Colonies

 

Check out these cool interactive sites on longitude and latitude!

 

http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/mclass/sl/2/0.html

 

http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/mclass/Millionaire.html

 

 

 

Colonial Williamsburg.

 

http://www.history.org/

 

http://www.history.org/kids/

 

http://www.history.org/media/interactive.cfm

 

 

 

Archiving Early America: Your Window Into America's Founding Years

 

http://www.earlyamerica.com/

 

 

 

Would you have survived the colony? Find out and take a quiz on this fabulous interactive website by PBS.

 

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/colonialhouse/history/index.html

 

 

Spanish Armada