colonization5

=5th Grade Social Studies - U.S. Colonization and Settlement=

**Websites**
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 * Discovery Streaming Video: Dear America: A Journey to the New World: The Story of Remember Patience Whipple: Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1620 The story of a young girl's experiences with life, death, and friendship in the New World after the Mayflower voyage. From the Dear America historical fiction book series.
 * Discovery Streaming Video: Plymouth Plantation Students blast back in time to the original Plymouth Plantation of 1620, the first colonial settlement in southern New England.
 * SlideShare: 13 English Colonies Covers a great deal of information. 60 slides.
 * SlideShare: 13 Colonies Clearly present information and includes discussion prompts. 52 slides.


 * __Revolutionary War Figures__**
 * [|Revolutionary War Hall]- scroll down to Historic Figures
 * [|Who2] - Brief Biographies of famous people from the Revolutionary War
 * [|Portraits of Famous Early Americans]
 * [|HistoryCentral.com] - Historymakers of the American Revolution

Lessons
[|Timeline of an Explorer's Life] This activity allows the students to work cooperatively with each other creating a time-line of the lives of the North American Explorers using the Timeliner program.

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