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Students review vocabulary related to the Halifax Explosion, a maritime explosion responsible for killing 1600 and injuring over 9000. They participate in discussion and write an account of the incident. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
Students study the furniture made in the 1600s and 1700s for wealthy Parisians and the King of France. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students complete and merge two timelines, listing ten events from Asia, and ten events from Europe. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students describe the cooperation that existed between the colonists and Indians during the 1600s and 1700s (for example, in agriculture, the fur trade, military alliances, treaties, cultural interchanges). Full Review »
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- 9th - 11th
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Students will examine reasons for conflict among nation states, such as competition for resources and territory, differences in systems of government, and religious or ethnic conflict. They pick a conflict from the 1600s to the present and answer a series of questions. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students should outline section of chapter in Social Studies book on the colonization of America in the early 1600?s. It should include events in a chronological order with reasons why these changes and events took place. They then invent a character that lives in England or the Netherlands and is moving to America. Full Review »
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- 11th
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Students review the appropriate chapter in their text. They develop a map of the English colonies showing the geographic location of each. Students divide into groups and discuss the religious freedom both then and now. Students look for parallels for the need for happiness in the 1600's and now. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 7th
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Students listen to well known American Folk Ballads and discuss what musical time period was going on during the 1600's and if they had guitars during that time. They then listen to an excerpt of Canon in D and discuss if they can give an example of where this song might be played. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students study, research and analyze the hardships the colonists in Jamestown felt during the early 1600s. They read two pages about the hardships in Jamestown and then write one paragraph about how they would try to stay alive in they were living during this time period. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students study the seasonal journey taken by Native Americans to their summer habitats along the Connecticut coastline. They examine native vegetation of Connecticut used by Native Americans for food and medicine and some animal and aquatic life important to the survival and stability of Connecticut's Coastal Native Americans. Full Review »