Unit Plan
Thinkport Education

Mpt: Exploring Maryland's Roots: The Colony Begins (1634 1640)

For Students 9th - 10th
In-depth site includes videos and interactive learning activities to help you learn more about Maryland as it was being founded. Play the game that lets you build your own plantation and find out all the problems colonists faced in...
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PBS

Pbs: Cet: Africans in America: The Growth of Slavery in North America

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the economics of slavery in South Carolina and its importance to the profitable growing of rice. It continues with ways the slaves were controlled and punished in South Carolina and Georgia. Click on Teacher's Guide for teacher...
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Curated OER

National Park Service: Teaching With Historic Places: When Rice Was King

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson plan teaching the rice culture of Georgetown County, South Carolina in the 1700's.