Colonial America Unit Bundle: Lessons, Activities, Timeline and Test - SS3H3

Colonial America Unit Bundle

Save yourself HOURS of work! This product has your entire Colonial America unit lessons planned for the month!

Need engaging digital lessons that will anchor your student's understanding of the factors that shaped British Colonial America? This product is filled with no prep, photo-filled digital lessons with notes companions your students will love! Perfect for ESOL Learners!

This product contains:

• 5 Digital Lessons with printable notes companions for each lesson
• 1 set of task cards
• 1 unit test (printable and digital)
• 1 bulletin board timeline display

Variety of ways to use this product:

• The digital lessons can be used as an independent center assignment, small group lesson or whole group activity!
• Task Cards can be used in centers or get your students moving and post the questions around the room or in the hallway!
• Students can use notes on the assessment for differentiation.

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Topics covered in the Digital Lessons:

1. Reasons Why the Colonies were Founded

• economic reasons
• religion reasons
• New Opportunities
• Travel costs
• Indentured Servants
• Puritans
• Religious Regions
• Pilgrims
• A New Home
• The First Settlement
• Jamestown, Virginia
• The Pilgrims Voyage
• Plymouth, Massachusetts

2. New England Colonies

• Three Colonial Regions
• Comparing the Regions
• Physical Features
• Land Features: thick forests
• long coastline
• Harbors
• Climate
• Farming
• Fishing
• Shipbuilding
• Whaling
• Education
• Trading
• Triangular Trade

3. Mid-Atlantic Colonies

• Mid-Atlantic Colonies
• Land
• plains and rolling hills
• Climate
• Waterways
• Trade
• Merchants
• Education

4. Southern Colonies

• Southern Colonies on a map
• Land
• Farming
• Plantations
• Slave Labor
• Education
• Native Americans
• Tuscarora War
• Fighting Over Land

5. Colonial Life

• Colonial People
• Large Landowners
• Wealth and property
• Farmers
• Women
• Homemakers
• Merchants
• Artisans
• Indentured Servants
• Slaves
• American Indians

File Types:

The slideshow comes in PowerPoint format AND a link to the slideshow in Google Drive so that you can assign it in Google Classroom. It also comes in an EDITABLE form so you can make changes if you want to.

Social Studies Standards Covered in this Bundle:

SS3H3 Explain the factors that shaped British Colonial America.

a.Identify key reasons why the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies were founded (religious freedom and profit).

b. Compare and contrast colonial life in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies (education, economy, and religion).

c.Describe colonial life in America from the perspectives of various people: large landowners, farmers, artisans, women, children, indentured servants, slaves, and American Indians.