Colonial Period Unit

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Colonial Period Unit

• Valerie Robinson

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Analyze Learners

• Unit for normal fourth graders
• Ages 9-10

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State Objectives

• SS.4.5.3    Identify major leaders and events
  from Americas colonization through the
  Revolutionary War.
  
• SS.4.5.4    Identify the influence of various
  factors on the founding of the original colonies
  (e.g. Economic, geographic, political,
  religious).
• SS.4.5.8   Explore how and why family and
  community life differed in various regions of
  colonial North America (e.g., New England, middle
  colonies, southern colonies).
• SS.4.5.9   Compare the family lives of different
  groups and strata in colonial times including the
  roles and responsibilities of men, women,
  children and the elderly.
• SS.4.5.11   Describe factors that led to the
  colonists break with Great Britain and research
  major events of the Revolutionary War (e.g.,
  Stamp Act, Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill,
  Yorktown).
• SS.4.5.17   Explain why Americans and those who
  led them (e.g., George Washington, Benjamin
  Franklin, Thomas Jefferson) went to war to win
  independence from England.
• SS.4.5.20    Sequence major historical events in
  United States history on a timeline (e.g.
  discovery of America, Boston Tea Party,
  Revolutionary War).

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Methods and Materials

• History Book
• Paper
• Pen/Pencil
• Poster Board
• Construction Paper

• Markers
• Colored Pencil
• Glue
• Handouts
• Worksheets

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Websites

• http//www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolutio
  n
  
•  http//www.proteacher.com/090021.shtml
• http//eserver.org/poetry/paul-revere.html
• http//library.thinkquest.org/10966/index.htm
• http//web.ccsd.k12.wy.us/Social20Studies/05/0101
  underpil.html
  
• http//www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html
• http//www.franklin.k12.ma.us/keller/conboy/EXTRAE
  7E1.HTM
  

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Days One and Two

• Day One
• Background on the Puritans
• Crossing to America
• Plymouth Colony
• Assign Report
• Day Two
• Help from Indians
• Lifestyles
• First Thanksgiving
• Drawing

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Day Three

• Map 13 Colonies
• PowerPoint
• Discuss colonies
• Lifestyles in the different colonies

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Days Four and Five

• Day Four
• WebQuest
• Work on newspaper articles
• Poem or Word Search
• Day Five
• Finish WebQuest
• Read articles aloud
• Students given further information on topics
• Battles of the American Revolution

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Days Six, Seven, and Eight

• Day Six
• Constitution
• Treaty of Paris
• Day Seven
• Work on their reports
• Day Eight
• Give reports
• Hand in assignments
• What they have learned from unit

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Learner Participation

• Ask questions
• Presentations
• Choose poem or word search
• Use different methods besides bookwork

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Evaluate

• Graded mostly on their project
• 13 colonies worksheets
• Poem-penmanship and memorization
• Word Search-completion and accuracy
• Drawing-ability to follow directions and
  completion
  
• Class participation

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