colonial4

=4th Grade Social Studies - Colonial PA=

**Websites**

 * Discovery Education Video: The Early Colonists Even though this movie talks about colonists in VA and MA, it still highlights the reasons for colonies in the New World as well as the colonists' lifestyle.

Lessons

 * [|William Penn Ad] Students create advertisements using Word. These advertisements are like the ones William Penn would have made when he was inviting people to join him in his new colony, Pennsylvania.
 * [|Pioneer/Colonial Life in Photos] Students dress in pioneer/colonial clothing and work in small groups to create scenes from this time period. One student takes photographs of the pioneer/colonial scenes and then the group uses the sepia tool to recreate a photo journal from the era. Diaries accompany the photos.

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