Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Us History: The American Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
US History learning module on the American Revolution with interactive assignments, projects, and assessment.
Unit Plan
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: Ap Us History Study Guide, Period Two: 1607 1754

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Advanced placement U.S. History learning module on the emerging colonial and native societies between 1607-1754. Resources for students include video, essays, timeline and primary source documents.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1491 1607: Environmental/health Effects in New World

For Students 9th - 10th
European arrival in the Americas decimated both indigenous people and previously-flourishing ecosystems.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Within These Walls

For Students 9th - 10th
Two hundred years' worth of American history all in one house. Learn what a close examination of a single-family dwelling can tell us about what life was like during five different periods of American history: the colonial era, the...
Handout
University of Groningen

American History: Documents: Documents

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Browse U.S. historical documents according to historical period or search documents via search engine.W.11-12.9b US Doc Analysis
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Colonial Society and Culture 1607 1754

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Using primary sources, a self-assessment of Colonial Society and Culture (1607-1754).
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Colonial Society and Culture the Consumer Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the development of the eighteenth century Atlantic economy allowing American colonists access to British goods leading to a consumer revolution and made printed materials available (novels, magazines, pamphlets).
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University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Immigration Syllabus: Weeks 1 2

For Students 11th - 12th
Week 1: Why study immigration? What does the study of immigration reveal about U.S. history and which stories we tell about ourselves as a people? Week 2: Settlers, Servants, and Slaves in British, French, and Spanish Colonial America:...
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: Revolution: Continental Congress [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" that examines the rules by which the Continental Congress governed colonial America. Learners will identify people who held positions of leadership...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Colonial Society and Culture the Enlightenment

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of how the Age of Enlightenment influenced the American colonies in thought, Benjamin Franklin, and the colony of Georgia.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Colonial Society and Culture the Great Awakening

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the Great Awakening and how the Protestant Revivalism effected England and the American colonies during the eighteenth century.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Making Rules

For Students 5th - 8th
Follow the incremental process that the colonial leaders took over a ten-year period of time making new rules that would finally result in independence from Great Britain. See how many of them really didn't plan on independence, but that...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Intolerable Acts and the First Continental Congress

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the American colonists response to the Intolerable Acts and how it began to unify the colonists.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Taxation Without Representation Uproar Over the Stamp Act

For Students 9th - 11th
An overview of the American colonist reaction to the Stamp Act.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Townshend Acts and Committees of Correspondence

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the Townshend Acts and Committees of Correspondence during American colonial times.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Transatlantic Trade

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the Transatlantic Trade whereby Europe, Africa, and the America's engaged in a network of people, raw materials, finished goods, merchants, and sailors bringing wealth to colonial empires. The consequences of the...
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Other

Plimouth Plantation

For Students 9th - 10th
Plimoth Plantation brings us "Living, breathing history," and lots of fun delving into various aspects like the Wampanoag, the English Colonists, the colony itself, and, of course, Thanksgiving - myth and reality. This is a site with...