The
Thirteen Original Colonies Project
Directions:
Students working in groups of twos (some maybe by themselves), will be
given a colony to research and report on. By
completing the questions below, the groups will present reports to the class
that explain their colony’s participation in the Revolutionary War, land
claimed to the west, as well as other noteworthy events that took place in the
colony during this time period. All
groups also need to obtain informational maps of the colony & the state
today by way of computer sources. All
questions should be answered in paragraph structure (4 or more sentences per
paragraph). After completing your
rough copy of all answers to questions, check your GUMS with Mrs. Howley or Mr.
Wright. Then you may type your report.
Use
this site to help you answer many of the questions below.
http://ouray.cudenver.edu/~jswright/ColonialWebQuest.html
1.
What role did your colony play in the Revolutionary War?
List all of the battles and their locations (Mr. Wright has a “shirt”
that might help).
2.
Who were the original natives (Native Americans) of your colony?
What kind of people were they (peaceful, warriors, etc)?
What kind of houses did they live in?
How did they survive?
3.
Who were the original settlers (French, British, Spanish, etc) of the
colony and why did they leave their homeland (religious freedom, political
freedom, etc) for the new world? Check
the state books, or the “Library of the Thirteen Colonies” books for
colonial history. Cobblestone Magazine is a good source too.
4.
Did your state become a slave state or a free state?
When (date)?
5.
What was the population of your state in 1790, in 1990, in 2000?
See World Almanac.
Complete
three of the activities at the following site.
http://www.congressforkids.net/games/thirteencolonies/2_thirteencolonies.htm
Directions: The following questions are to be completed with the help of the computers. Your group will need 4 maps made into transparencies for this part of the project (Your group might want to figure out a way to place all this information on to 1 transparency with an extensive key).
Check
our "Grade Level Internet Links" for help with the map activities.
1.
Major cities map - circle the major cities of the 1700’s in red.
Please include a key with each map. (Check our "Grade Level
Internet Links" for help.)
2.
Natural & Physical features maps.
Color the transparencies please.
Through the above activity, students are working on Information Technology GE 3-4 1, GE 3-4 3, GE 3-4 5.
Information Technology Tasks Index Page
Page created by Kay Howley, Donna Macdonald
and Dayle Wright,
Orchard School faculty members
This page last updated: 06/22/05 .