Curated OER
Wall Street Journal: Is This Stone Linked to the Lost Colony of Roanoke?
The Dare Stones have long been a thorn in the mystery surrounding the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island. The first stone was found in 1937 and had an inscription that was originally thought to have been carved by Eleanor Dare, daughter of...
Other
Time Page: 13 Originals: Founding the American Colonies
Information about each of the thirteen colonies with links to additional good quality resources.
Other
New York State Museum: The New Netherland Dutch
This site gives a brief background of the ethnic makeup of New Netherland.
Other
Sites Alive: Comparison of American Colonies
Lesson plan focuses on comparing and contrasting the unique characteristics of the original thirteen American colonies.
Quia
Quia: Literary Term Quiz
This brief, multiple choice quiz, is a great way to wrap up a unit on the thirteen colonies. Click "check answers" at the bottom to view questions you answered correctly.
PurposeGames
Purpose Games: Can You Identify the 13 Original Colonies of the Usa?
Play this interactive game to test your knowledge of the original thirteen colonies. Can you find them on a map?
Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum: Letter Writing in America
Article from the National Postal Museum on letter writing in America and how it became important as a tie between people exploring or settling in the new world and the sponsors or loved ones they left behind. With primary source material.
University of California
University of California, Berkeley: Boston News Letter May 15, 1704
The front page of "The Boston News-Letter," the first newspaper in the English colonies.
Other
North Carolina Ghost Stories and Legends: Virginia Dare, the White Doe
Describes the establishment of the Roanoke Island Colony and the story of Virginia Dare, the first English person born in the New World. After the colonists vanished, a legend developed around Virginia Dare, that she would appear as a...
Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum: Art of the Stamp: Roanoke Voyages
View the artwork for a U.S. postage stamp issued in 1984 to commemorate the voyages to Roanoke Island. Includes a short passage on Sir Walter Raleigh's commissioning of the famous expedition that represents the beginning of English life...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: How Landforms Affect Settlers' Choices
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart has students engage in a research project looking at how geographical features affected the colonists' settling of the New World. Web links to aid the research process are included. An...
Henry J. Sage
Sage American History: New England Expands to New Colonies
Article with photographs on the expansion of the new England Colonies to include the Middle and Southern Colonies. Links to primary source documents.
Other
All the News? American Revolution & Maryland's Press
Explore this collection of digitized historical newspapers and broadsides from the 1760s about pre-Revolutionary topics. Requires Adobe Reader.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: French and Dutch Exploration in the New World
Outline text explaining how the French, Dutch, and English explorers began to make inroads into the Americans in the late 1500s and early 1600s.
History Teacher
Historyteacher.net: Late 17 C and 18 C American Society: Quiz (1)
This 11-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and includes a variety of questions covering life in the early colonies.
History Teacher
Historyteacher.net: Early Settlements: Quiz (2)
This 10-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and includes a variety of questions covering early settlement of the New England colonies.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Thirteen Colonies
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart includes information and maps of the original thirteen colonies and describes the characteristics of the three regions involved-- Northeast, Middle and Southern. Questions to check for...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: 13 Colonies Map
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews the composition of the thirteen original colonies and asks students to identify the colonies on a map.
Siteseen
Siteseen: Land of the Brave: The Original 13 Colonies
An illustrated guide to American colonization and the original 13 Colonies.
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Digital History
Digital History: Problems England Faced After the French and Indian War [Pdf]
This offers a good overview of the problems England needed to deal with after signing the Treaty of Paris in 1763, ending the French and Indian War. What to do about the new lands they controlled, how to deal with their loss of income...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: The Iroquois Country, 1768
A map of the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York showing the Iroquois Six Nations lands as established by the Fort Stanwix treaty of 1768. The map show the expansion of English colonial settlers into the upper Hudson River Valley...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pocahontas
Daughter of Powhatan, a distinguished Indian chief, born in 1595; died off Gravesend, England, in March, 1617. Her early life was spent among the Indians in Virginia. In 1607 she became connected with the early history of America by...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William Penn
(1644-1718) William Penn was an English colonist and best known as founder of Pennsylvania.
Cengage Learning
Literature of Discovery and Exploration
Teaching approach that examines the writings of European New World explorers from the late 1400s through the 1600s. Includes Christopher Columbus, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Rene Goulaine de Laudonniere, Pedro Menendez de Aviles, Fray...