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Puritan vs Pilgrim Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson for Grade 8 designed to explore the differences between Pilgrims and Puritans using online primary and secondary sources.
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Settlement of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies

For Teachers 5th
In this lesson, 5th graders learn about the people who founded the New England colonies and the role that religion played in shaping them. Includes background information for the teacher. Students explore primary resource readings on the...
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Read Works

Read Works: Drawing Conclusions 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson plan unit on drawing conclusions through which students learn how to recognize the difference between implicit information and drawing conclusions. Students also learn to draw conclusions...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Become a Thanksgiving Historian

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students may be surprised to find out that some ideas they have about the history of Thanksgiving are actually myths. In this instructional activity students become a true "Thanksgiving historian" by completing a Venn diagram about the...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 12: Canterbury Tales

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Students learn how the stereotypes and characterization of Chaucer's pilgrims reflect his views of religious corruption and social boundaries in the medieval period. They will consider how the themes reflected in the general Prologue...
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: American Indians and English Settlers in Colonial America

For Teachers 5th
In this lesson, 5th graders examine the relations between Indians and the settlers in the 1600s and 1700s. Background information for teachers is included. Students will work in groups to look at three different colonies and read primary...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Lesson Plan: The First Thanksgiving

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Teachers deepen students' understanding of the first Thanksgiving as they discuss the Mayflower voyage, life in the colonies, the Wampanoag traditions, and an extensive look into this time period.
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Colonial House: Fearless and Faithful

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan based on the PBS program, Colonial House, which aired in 2004. The program is available on DVD and the link to the activity is still available. This lesson plan explores why ordinary people left their homes in Europe to...

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