Exploring the Original 13 Colonies

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Exploring the Original 13 Colonies

• A Dolphin Pod Project!

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What will we learn?

• What effect does life in the 13 colonies have on
  your life today?
• You will describe the founding of the New
  England, Middle, or Southern Colonies.
• You will describe the daily life in the New
  England, Middle, or Southern Colonies.
• You will describe the ruling systems in the New
  England, Middle, or Southern Colonies.

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What will we do?

• Step 1 Be placed in groups and be assigned a
  group of colonies
• - Mrs. Coulter will break you into groups of 4
  and you will be given a specific group of
  colonies (New England, Middle, or Southern)
• Step 2 Research
• - We will use encyclopedias, books, the
  internet, videos, and any other resources to find
  out information about your assigned colonies.

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Then what?

• Step 3 Make a power point presentation
• - You will work with your group to make a power
  point presentation. The presentation format is
  already created for you. You just need to click
  and add in your colonies information along with
  some cool pictures and text!

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Still more!

• Step 4 Create a brochure
• - You will act as if you lived in colonial times
  and create a brochure on the computer convincing
  someone to travel to your colonies. You need to
  use your persuasive writing skills! You can do
  it!

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Next step!

• Step 5 Create a web page
• - Now with so much information in your head you
  can make a web page that will be put on our class
  website. Your web page will tell about one area
  that really interested you when learning about
  colonies.

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Finally!

• Step 6 Take a trip back into time
• - We will then go on a trip to Rileys Farm
  where we will learn what colonial life was really
  like and you will become a real life colonial
  soldier!
• Step 7 Present your power point to the class
• - Get your vocal chords ready and prepare for a
  10 minute presentation where you will share with
  your group what you learned about colonial times.

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ARE YOU READY!

• This is going to be great fun. So ready, get
  set, and off we go back into time!