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Colonial America Primary Sources
The Primary Sources series is the winner of the 2015 Academics' Choice Awards for the 2015 Smart Book Award in recognition of mind-building excellence. The Colonial America Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source that are printed on sturdy 8.5 X 11 card stock.
FREE Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources to help you to teach primary sources more effectively and use creative strategies for integrating primary source materials into your classroom. This FREE Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources is 15 pages. It includes teacher tools, student handouts, and student worksheets.
Colonial America Primary Sources are just what teachers need to help students learn how to analyze primary sources in order to meet Common Core State Standards!
Students participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations of history using historical documents. Students make observations, generate questions, organize information and ideas, think analytically, write persuasively or informatively, and cite evidence to support their opinion, hypotheses, and conclusions. Students learn how to integrate and evaluate information to deepen their understanding of historical events. As a result, students experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience.
The 20 Colonial America Primary Sources are:
- 1. Map of "James Fort at Jamestown 1607
- 2. Painting (1932) entitled The Mayflower Compact, 1620 depicts the signing of the first political document in colonial American history 1620
- 3. Depictions of the first "Thanksgiving held in 1621
- 4. Illustration of Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in 1664, located on what is now Manhattan Island in New York City
- 5. Replica of painting of slaves in Virginia processing tobacco for export 1670
- 6. Portrait of a Puritan woman and her baby late 1600s
- 7. Illustration of early shipbuilding in a New England colony late 1600s
- 8. Oil painting entitled The Birth of Pennsylvania 1680 William Penn, standing, faces King Charles II in the king's breakfast chamber 1680
- 9. Illustration entitled "Indian Raid in 1675 during King Philip's War in Massachusetts
- 10. Illustrations of early colonial tools and equipment 1706
- 11. A colonial Quaker meeting with a woman preaching early 1700s
- 12. Illustration of the planned city of Savannah, Georgia 1734
- 13. Illustration of Harvard College in Massachusetts 1740
- 14. Illustration of a rice plantation in the southern colonies 1750s
- 15. First-hand account of the passage by ship to colonial America 1750
- 16. Details from a map showing barrels of tobacco from Virginia and Maryland being loaded onto ships 1751
- 17. Print of the Bodleian Plate, depicting the colonial architecture of Colonial Williamsburg 1781
- 18. Illustration of British ships and soldiers arriving in Boston Harbor 1768
- 19. Illustration (1932) of the reading of the Declaration of Independence from the East Balcony of the Old State House, Boston, Massachusetts July 18, 1776
- 20. Map of the original thirteen colonies created for the United States centennial in 1876
What a great complement to your history lessons! Each pack has 20 8.5"x11" card-stock images of maps, photographs, illustrations, original documents & letters, political cartoons and more that you can use in a variety of ways: research or reference; gallery walks or literary analysis; reinforcing the Common Core skills of critical thinking, analysis, point of view, compare/contrast, and sequencing events; add them to a timeline project. A couple of the images were hard to read since they are photos of the original, but that was because the print was small on the document (the Texas Declaration of Independence from the Westward Expansion packet.) Many of the documents are black and white while photos of paintings are in color. You could laminate these or put them in plastic sleeves in a binder for reference too. So many applications for students in a homeschool environment, co-op, or traditional classroom. Check out the item numbers below on our website for a complete list of what is included in each packet. Some packets hold a more diverse collection while others include predominantly photographs. ~ Sara
Product Format: | Paperback |
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Brand: | Gallopade International |
Author: | Carole Marsh |
Grades: | 2-8 |
ISBN: | 9780635116215 |
Length in Inches: | 11 |
Width in Inches: | 8.5 |
Height in Inches: | 0.25 |
Weight in Pounds: | 0.6 |