Timelining North Carolina's Big Mystery: The Lost Colony

This is a teaching guide that accompanies the third section of the UNC-TV film, Birth of a Colony: North Carolina. This section looks at the history of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island.

In this Roanoke reading and questions instructional activity, students read a two page selection about the colony of Roanoke. They answer 3 multiple choice questions, 5 fill in the blank questions, and 2 true or false questions based on...

In this North Carolina instructional activity, students read about the early history of North Carolina and answer true and false questions about it. Students answer 10 true and false questions.

Students develop an idea about what happened at the Lost Colony of Roanoke. In this Roanoke Colony instructional activity, students examine associated vocabulary before listening to Roanoke The Lost Colony, An Unsolved Mystery from...

The First Colony Foundation is an organization that conducts research into the English colonies that Sir Walter Raleigh sought to establish on Roanoke Island in North Carolina. This page presents a history of what is known about the...

Students construct a timeline of four major culture periods in Native American history from studying archaeological evidence cards.

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Describes the three expeditions organized by Sir Walter Raleigh to establish an English colony on Roanoke Island. The last group of colonists who settled there in 1587 disappeared and their fate is still not known for certain.

The mystery of what happened to the Lost Colony on Roanoke Island has endured over the centuries. A clue has, until recently, lain hidden in a map created by John White that is housed in the British Museum. Archaeologists began digging...

Fourth graders hypothesize about what happened on the island of Roanoke. In this South Carolina history lesson, 4th graders use primary documents to draw conclusions about what happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke. This mini-unit of...