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- 3rd - 6th
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Students study 17th century Canada in order to compare modern life with life in the past. They approach the study using cross-curricular lessons including music and art. Full Review »
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- 5th - 7th
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Students study the history and culture of 17th century Japan by examining samurai. They review the format of haiku poetry and examine renga poetry. They examine Kamishibai, the Japanese storytelling form and apply it five facts they discover. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students examine how popular language and slang have changed over the course of American history. They conduct Internet research, use an online interactive Colonial House website to translate 17th century language into 21st century language, and write 17th century text. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students discuss reasons why early europeans immigrated to North America. Working in groups, they complete Internet activities on the PBS Website. They take a simulated voyage to the new world and rercord their actions on worksheets. Then they role-play as colonists writing letters home or making journal entries. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students conduct research to determine how the Chesapeake Bay has changed since the 17th century when Captain John Smith first explored it. Students read from Smith's historical documents. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students explore life in America before the 17th Century by identifying and describing arrival, settlement, and culture of the first Americans, and examine how climate and geography influenced the way various Indian Tribes lived. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students engage in a research project about the 17th century Saugus Iron Works. They use the internet in order to find information. There is group discussion of the facts and a guest speaker comes to the class to add to the lesson and to clarify any misconceptions. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students, after reading a variety of literature selections as well as looking through the eyes of Rebecca Nurse, gain insight into village life in 17th century New England. They compare/contrast daily survival strategies in 17th century life to their lives in the 21st century. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 4th
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Students discuss jettons and their archaeological importance at Jamestown, practice using historic counting sheets and artifacts to understand calculating methods of early 17th Century, and identify similarities to modern numeric systems. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students participate in a three part lesson in which they examine the initial encounters between the English and the Indians, the different ways in which the colonist and Indians interacted and why English settlers and Native Americans were unable form a lasting relationship. Full Review »
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