Salem Witch Trails/The Crucible Word Search

Look at images depicting the Salem Witch Trials and read a few character descriptions. Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba are featured with the remaining slides being pictures. Show your history or English class this slide as you read...

Describe the Salem Witch Trails in terms of the accusers and the accused. The colonial stage is set with background information, then a list of accusers and accused individuals is introduced. Learners will discover their causes and...

Students consider the implications of the Salem Witch Trials. In this literature lesson, students read Arthur Miller's The Crucible and compare the witch trials to McCarthyism of the 1950's. Students rewrite scenes from the play using a...

Guilty until proven innocent? A short video tackles the question of why witch hunts occur by examining the history of these purges and the tests used to identify those suspect of working with the devil.

Virtual tour from the Salem Witch Museum highlights the historical sites of the Salem Witch Trials and provides an overview and an FAQ concerning the events of 1692.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Young scholars read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to use four historical sources to build a more...

This interactive "Salem Witchcraft Hysteria" is based on the historical facts of the Salem witch trials. Enter if you dare, can you survive the Salem Witch Trials?

A survey of the Salem Witch Trials as well as its background in seventeenth-century colonial New England. Includes descriptions of the accused and analysis of the reasons for the outbreak of witchcraft accusations, a bibliography,...

This is the original transcript of the trial examination of Mary Easty, accused witch, April 22, 1692.

This webpage features the full text of the petitions for mercy made by Mary Easty and John Proctor, two convicted witches awaiting execution.