Teaching Themes
Colonial America: Everything You Need
Articles, interactive activities, booktalks, and more to help students understand Colonial life and times.
Computer Lab Activities, Interactive Whiteboard Activities, Listen and Read Activities
Pilgrim Village: A Listen and Read Book, Level A
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2
Early readers learn what life was like for the Pilgrims with this brief reading activity that features text, audio, and photos.
Computer Lab Activities, Interactive Whiteboard Activities, Listen and Read Activities
Pilgrim Village: A Listen and Read Book, Level B
Grades: 1–2
Early readers learn what life was like for the Pilgrims with this brief reading activity that features text, audio, and photos.
Colonial America Books
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
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 Unit Plans Interdependence: A Colonial ExampleGrades: 3–5 With this interdisciplinary approach to teaching about the transition to the New World, students give oral presentations from the perspective of... |
 Articles, Computer Lab Activities, Interactive Whiteboard Activities, Online Learning Activities Colonial Period | Our AmericaGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Explore the colonial period in Scholastic's Our America series. Colonial America was the time in American history when Europeans first set up... |
 Everything You Need Thanksgiving: Everything You NeedGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Students will see beyond the kids table, as they research the significance of Thanksgiving. |
 Everything You Need George Washington: Everything You NeedGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Material that will help students research, critique, and apply the work of America's first president. |
 Interactive Whiteboard Activities, Book Resources Teach Dear AmericaGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Students can travel back in time to discover the America of yesteryears, from the Colonial Period in the 1600s to World War II. |
 PilgrimsGrades: 6–8, 9–12 Presents an article about the English pilgrims founding Plymouth Colony, including their prior beliefs and their journey. |
 Plymouth ColonyGrades: 6–8, 9–12 Offers details about Plymouth Colony, the first permanent Puritan settlement in America. |
 Plymouth (Massachusetts)Grades: 6–8, 9–12 Provides historical information and current economical facts about Plymouth, Massachusetts, the site of the first permanent European settlement in... |
Colonial Period 1607–1776Grades: 3–5, 6–8 This article describes the challenges that colonists faced and the values they held as they settled on unfamiliar land. |
Computer Lab Activities, Online Learning Activities Internet Field Trip: Early AmericaGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Use this internet field trip to explore the life and times of pilgrims and colonists with interactive games, mock testimonials, quizzes and much... |
PuritanismGrades: 6–8, 9–12 Presents an article about the history of English and American Puritanism. |
Colonial CustomsGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Students explore the customs of 17th century Pilgrims and Wampanoag people with these four learning activities. |
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Booktalks Roanoke: The Mystery of the Lost Colony BooktalkGrades: 3–5 Discover the answer to one of the most puzzling and intriguing mysteries in American history. |
Discussion Guides, Online Learning Activities, Book Resources The Starving Times: Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony Diary Discussion GuideGrades: 3–5 A discussion guide to The Starving Times: Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony Diary by Patricia Hermes in the My America series. |
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Booktalks The Starving Times: Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony Diary Book Two BooktalkGrades: 3–5 I still live at Jamestown in 1609, but every day I wonder if I, or anyone else in the fort, will survive this horrible winter of starvation and... |
Discussion Guides, Book Resources Our Strange New Land, Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony Diary Discussion GuideGrades: 3–5 A discussion guide to Our Strange New Land, Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony Diary: Book One, Jamestown, Virginia 1609 by Patricia Hermes in the My... |
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Discussion Guides, Writing Activities, Book Resources Season of Promise: Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony Diary Discussion GuideGrades: 3–5 A discussion guide to Season of Promise: Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony Diary, Book Three, 1610 by Patricia Hermes in the My America series. |
An Interview with Barry Denenberg about The Journal of William Thomas EmersonGrades: 3–5 An interview with Barry Denenberg about The Journal of William Thomas Emerson: A Revolutionary War Patriot, Boston, Massachusetts, 1774, in the My... |
An Interview with Ann Turner about Love Thy NeighborGrades: 6–8 Ann Turner was interviewed about Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson, Green Marsh, Massachusetts, 1774 in the Dear America... |
Discussion Guides, Book Resources Love Thy Neighbor Discussion GuideGrades: 6–8 A discussion guide to Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson, Green Marsh, Massachusetts, 1774 by Ann Turner in the Dear America... |
