• A COLONY IN THE NEW WORLD
  •     Christine Rogers
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    Assessment 
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    		Introduction
      The United States of America began with the journey of courageous people, who came to a new world to find freedom.  We will explore what went into creating the new colonies.
     
    Subject:  American History
    Topic: 13 Colonies
    Grade Level:  5th
    URL: ctap295.ctaponline.org/~rogers/student/
    Standards Addressed
    Fifth Grade
    Social Studies: Focus on Colonial Era
    The evolution of the original 13 colonies

    5.4  STUDENTS UNDERSTAND THE POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS THAT EVOLVED IN THE COLONIAL ERA:

    • Understand the influence of location and physical setting on the founding of the original 13 colonies and identify on a map the location of the colonies and of the American Indian nations already inhabiting these areas.
    • Identify the major individuals and groups responsible for the founding of the various colonies and the reasons for their founding (e.g. John Smith, Virginia;  Roger Williams, Rhode Island; William Penn, Pennsylvania; Lord Baltimore,Maryland; William Bradford, Plymouth; John Winthrop, Massachusetts).
    • Describe the religious aspects of the earliest colonies (e.g. Puritanism in Massachusetts, Anglicanism in Virginia, Catholicism in Maryland, Quakerism in Pennsylvania).
    • Identify the significance and leaders of the First Great Awakening, which marked a shift in religious ideas, practices and allegiances in the colonial period, the growth of religious toleration and free exercise of religion.
    • Understand how the British colonial period created the basis for the development of political self-government and a free-market economic system and the differences between British, Spanish and French colonial systems.
    • Describe the introduction of slavery into America, the responses of slave families to their condition, the ongoing struggle between proponents and opponents of slavery, and the gradual institutionalization of slavery in the South.
    • Explain the early democratic ideas and practices that emerged during the colonial period, including the significance of representative assemblies and town meetings.

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    Instructional Objectives

    • a) Students will think about what is needed to develop a new   colony 
    • b) Students will design a colony of their own and make an oral presentation detailing its development
    • c)  Students will use software (Sim City) to re-design their new colony 

     

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    Student Activities
     

    Introductory Activity
     


     

    Enabling Activity(ies)

    • a)  Students create a list of 6 things they think are necessary for developing their own new colony
    • b)  Students discuss, in groups of 4, what each one believes is important in creating a new colony
    • c)  Each group will decide which 3 things, within each student's ideas,  to use  (instead of 6)


    Culminating Activity

    • a)Each group will create a visual layout (poster) of their colony
    • b)  The group will present (each student will take a turn orally presenting) their layout and explain what they chose to include and why they believed it was necessary
    • c)  Sim City-  the group will reproduce their layout on this software

     
     
     
     

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    Assessment
     
    • Student's production of  list of 6
    • Each student's participation in the group-
    • Oral Presentation skill
    • Use of computer software (Sim City)
     


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    Results
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    Web Resources & Supplementary Materials

    Introductory Activity
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    Enabling Activity
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    Culminating Activity
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    School Name: Cali Calmecac Charter School
    School Location: Windsor, California
    Christine Rogers: crogers@wusd.org
    Last Revised: 00/00/2000 (insert and update last revision date every time you work on this page)