Tour the Mayflower

Learners research information about the Mayflower, Pilgrims, the Plymouth Colony, the Wampanoags, and the first Thanksgiving. They take an online tour of the Mayflower, interpret timelines, create a postcard, and compare and contrast the...

Students explore the site Second Life about the Pilgrims who were brought over by the Mayflower. For this Mayflower lesson plan, students create a portfolio containing information they learned.

Take a virtual field trip to Plimoth Plantation with four video tours and a slideshow. Videos take viewers aboard the Mayflower, inside a pilgrim village, to a Wampanoag homesite, and the Plimoth Plantation. Slideshow pictures are...

Students explore the first Thanksgiving. In this holiday instructional activity, students create a KWL chart on what they know about the first Thanksgiving and conduct Internet research on this topic. Students use a Venn diagram to...

Fourth graders explore Internet sites about Colonial America, and create multimedia presentations.