COLONY PROJECT

Working with a partner, you will be assigned a colony to research and be prepared to give a brief presentation about. First answer the questions and fill out the form with the required information. Then use that information to create a poster that you will first cut into the shape of your colony! The following information needs to be on your poster:

1. Name of the colony, the date founded, and the founder of the colony.
2. Description of why this colony was founded and where the settlers came from.
3. How did people earn their living? (Products, etc)
4. Describe the geography of your colony.
5. Include other important facts you have found about the colony such as popular religion in your colony, what was life like in your colony, etc.

You should include illustrations from the Internet, or those that you have drawn by hand. Every group will have a chance to present their poster to the class and tell a bit about the colony they researched.

In addition to the Internet sources, you can use your social studies book and the class set of books about all the colonies.

Research Sources

Thirteen Originals: Founding the American Colonies
http://www.timepage.org/spl/13timeline.html

Chart of the American Colonies
http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/colchart.html

Thirteen Colonies (clickable map)
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/13colonies1.htm

Life in the Thirteen Colonies (compared to today)
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/13colonieslife.htm

Colonial Kids
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/?tz.skip=1

You Be The Historian: discover what life was like for the colonists
http://americanhistory.si.edu/kids/springer/

Clipart & Pictures

Pics4Learning
http://www.pics4learning.com/?search=cat&query=History_Colonial

Clipart
http://classroomclipart.com/cgi-bin/kids/imageFolio.cgi?direct=History/United_States/Colonial_America

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