Grade 4

         Colonial America 

Travel Guide to the Colonies!

Pictures of Colonial Life

LOTS of Pictures here! Weaving, people, clothing and more

http://ushistoryimages.com/colonial-life.shtm

Spinning wheel

http://ushistoryimages.com/colonial-life.shtm

Woman sewing or woman with sick child or people socializing

http://ushistoryimages.com/colonial-women.shtm

Chopping wood to build a house

http://ushistoryimages.com/jamestown.shtm

Legal trials and punishment

http://ushistoryimages.com/colonial-massachusetts.shtm

Money:

http://www.publicdomainimages.net/imgs/85_Colonial_currency.html

Home- small and large

http://www.pics4learning.com/?search=cat&query=History_Colonial&sfield=1&sorder=desc&viewmode=2&page=3&mult=1

Slave quarters

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=slavequartersatmountvernon.jpg

Man chopping wood

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=willsawyer5009.jpg

Modest home

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=plimouthbuilding.jpg

Farmer

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=colonialfarmer.jpg

Baby’s cradle

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=colonialcradle.jpg

Blacksmith

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=blksmth.jpg

Basket weaving

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=vir05.jpg

Cobblestone street

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=cobblestone_street.jpg

Covered wagon

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=coveredwagon.jpg

Quill (pen) and ink

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=quillandink.jpg

Boy playing recorder

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=lwb005.jpg

2 colonists walking

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=rjtcolonistsatmarket.jpg

Women

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=jamestowncolonist1.jpg

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=plimouthfemale2.jpg

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=plimouthday.jpg

Fireplace in kitchen

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=generalshome2.jpg

Woman sewing in kitchen

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=brattonsvillehome1.jpg

Inside of a school house

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=brattonsvilleschool.jpg

Men

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=longhunter.jpg

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=plimouthmale3.jpg

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=plimouthmale4.jpg

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=plimouthmale.jpg

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=colonialmaletalking.jpg

Bed

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=plimouthinterior5.jpg

Pottery

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=colonialpottery.jpg

Cannon

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=plimouthcannon.jpg

Websites about Colonial Life

Daily Life 

http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/perspectives_daily.html

Clothing 

http://www.history.org/history/clothing/men/index.cfm)

http://www.history.org/history/clothing/women/index.cfm

http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/iadcost/iadcost-main1.html

Colonial history of Connecticut

http://www.cslib.org/history.htm#P27_5053 

Religion and the Church

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/13colonieschurch.htm

Education

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/13coloniesschool.htm

http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/TM/EducationInTheColonies.shtml

Farm

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/13coloniesfarm.htm

Food

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/13coloniesfood.htm 

African American Life

http://www.history.org/Almanack/people/african/aaintro.cfm

Jobs
http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/trades/tradehdr.cfm

Kids' Games & Toys

http://noahwebsterhouse.org/games.html

http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/iaddoll/iaddoll-main1.html

What people did for fun

http://noahwebsterhouse.org/amusements.html 

First Jewish Synagogue: Touro Synagogue

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/colonial/jb_colonial_jewish_1.html

Manners

http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/manners/rules2.cfm

Newspapers

http://www.historybuff.com/library/refnews1692.html

http://www.usahistory.info/colonial/newspapers.html (go to the last paragraph)

Colonial America: mainly for fun 

Interactive History

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/colonialhouse/history/index.html

History Mystery

http://teacher.scholastic.com/histmyst/start.asp?Game=4

solve a mystery about colonial times in this Scholastic website

The Jamestown Online Adventure

http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown/

try to survive in Jamestown

Life of an Apprentice

http://www.winterthur.org/special_programs/for_families.asp#

toward bottom of page press "click here" to go to gameJ

Jamestown Exhibit

http://www.history.com/interactives/jamestown-exhibit

Investigate the daily lives of the Daggetts, a colonial family from northeastern Connecticut .

http://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/smartfun/colonial/intro/index.html

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Web Quest