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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 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. |
 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... |
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Booktalks My America: Five Smooth Stones, Hope's Diary: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1776 BooktalkGrades: 3–5 Nine-year-old Hope is a cook, a gardener, a housekeeper, a schoolgirl, and one of the very first people to hear the Declaration of Independence... |
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... |
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Extension Activities, Book Resources If You Lived in Colonial Times Extension ActivitiesGrades: 3–5 Extension activity for If You Lived in Colonial Times by Ann McGovern. |
Articles, Book Resources Books for Teaching About Colonial America and Interdependence!Grades: 3–5, 6–8 Teacher created book list includes tips for classroom use. |
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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, Writing Activities, Book Resources Beyond the Burning Time Discussion GuideGrades: 6–8 Beyond the Burning Time is a well-researched, vivid account of a dark, frightening period in American history, the Salem witch trials. |
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. |
Discussion Guides Five Smooth Stones Discussion GuideGrades: 3–5 As tensions rise between the Tories and Patriots in 1776, Hope's life becomes more and more confusing. |
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. |
Discussion Guides, Writing Prompts, Writing Activities Indian Captive Discussion GuideGrades: 6–8 Little Mary, captured by Indians, learns to love them and refuses to leave when English soldiers try to rescue her. |
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Extension Activities, Book Resources Indian Captive Extension ActivityGrades: 6–8 Little Mary, captured by Indians, learns to love them and refuses to leave when English soldiers try to rescue her. |
Discussion Guides, Writing Activities, Book Resources The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce Discussion GuideGrades: 6–8 A young orphan journeys on the Mayflower to a new land. When the crew arrives at Plymouth, they find a countryside of magnificent beauty and a... |
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Discussion Guides, Book Resources We Are Patriots: Hope's Revolutionary War Diary Discussion GuideGrades: 3–5 A discussion guide to We Are Patriots: Hope's Revolutionary War Diary, Book Two, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania 1777 by Kristiana Gregory in the My... |
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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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... |
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. |
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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... |
Discussion Guides, Book Resources I Walk in Dread Discussion GuideGrades: 6–8 A discussion guide to I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembly, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1691... |
