History Day 7

Title of Unit: 5th Grade History

Title of Lesson: Colonies Submitted By: Jamie Holst

A. Summary of the Lesson Plan : This lesson plan discusses the lives of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. Students will learn the social, political, and religious influences that affected these societies.

B. Target Population: Grade Level: 5th Skill Level: on level Grouping: Small group for steps 1-2. Independent practice for step 3.

C. Materials: Smart boardComputer

Website:http://mrnussbaum.com/13colonies/13trades/

Internet AccessAgriculture/climate printout (5-6 copies)Religion printout (5-6 copies)Website:

http://mrnussbaum.com/13colonies/13regions/

D. Objectives: o NV State Social Studies Standards

H1.5.5 Describe the social, political, and religious lives of people in New England, Middle, and Southern colonies.

o Student-Friendly Standards

I can describe the lives of the people who lived in the colonies in America.

E. I Procedure: 1. Students will be broken into 4 groups. Each group will rotate through stations to

learn more about the colonies. 1 group will work on the smart board learning about the different regions, 1 group will read about climate and agriculture, 1 group will read about religion, and 1 group will work on the computers learning about colony trade skills.

2. Students will spend about 10 minutes at each station. Students will write down information from each station in their journal.

3. Students will use this information to write a 1 page story reviewing everything that they’ve learned so far in this unit. Students will include the journey to America, meeting with Native Americans, and life in the colony.

4. CLOSURE: Students will share their story with 1 person at their group.

Nevada State College EDEL 453 - Spring 2013 Karen Powell- Instructor page 1

http://mrnussbaum.com/13colonies/13regions/

http://mrnussbaum.com/13colonies/13trades/



F. Assessment: What will you use to measure student understanding?

The completed story will serve as the assessment.

Explain how you will know students understand the concepts from the lesson.

The story that the students write needs to be descriptive and thorough. I will be looking for evidence of each lesson over the last week to be included in the story. The student will need to use correct vocabulary and describe life as a colonist from beginning to end.




Agriculture and climate of the colonies

The New England Colonies were largely farming and fishing communities. The people made their own clothes and shoes. They grew much of their own food. Crops like corn and wheat grew in large numbers, and much was shipped to England. Foods that didn't grow in America were shipped from England. Boston was the major New England port.

The Middle Colonies were part agriculture, part industrial. Wheat and other grains grew on farms in Pennsylvania and New York. Factories in Maryland produced iron, and factories in Pennsylvania produced paper and textiles. Trade with England was plentiful in these colonies as well.

The Southern Colonies were almost entirely agricultural. The main feature was the plantation, a large plot of land that contained a great many acres of farmland and buildings

in which lived the people who owned the land and the people who worked the land. (A large part of the workforce was African slaves, who first arrived in 1619.)

Southern plantations grew tobacco, rice, and indigo, which they sold to buyers in England and elsewhere in America.

NEW ENGLANDThe New England colonies were further north and therefore had longer colder winters than other colonies. The soil in New England was full of large rocks. It was difficult to find large plots of land that could be used for crops. These are the two main reasons people in New England seldom became serious farmers.Because New England was covered with trees, people in New England used the trees for lumber and to build ships. Ships were used to fish or to hunt for whales. New England is the closest group of colonies to the Grand Banks. With many ships, New England became the leader in ocean shipping/commerce.

The Puritan religion was the center of life in New England. (Puritans in America eventually became Congregationalists.) Puritans believed that God would reward "hard working people". They built meeting houses in the centers of their cities. These were used for church as well as town meetings. All men who were church members and property owners could speak and vote at town meetings.

THE MIDDLE COLONIESThe Middle Colonies had a milder climate and much better soil than New England. Settlers in the Middle Colonies had come from the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, France, and Scotland. (Some people called the Middle Colonies the Melting Pot.)The Middle Colonies were well suited for small farms, and thus, became known as the "Bread Basket" because of all the grains (wheat, oats, barley, rye) that were grown in the Middle Colonies and then shipped to Philadelphia and New York.




As Philadelphia and New York grew as trading centers, manufacturing increased. Philadelphia also became an important shipbuilding center.

THE SOUTHERN COLONIESThe climate in the Southern Colonies was the warmest of the English colonies. The warm climate made it possible to grow crops throughout the year. The land was flat and the soil was rich. Tobacco and rice were the two most important cash crops. The climate was ideally suited for plantations where slaves did the manual labor. Most of the southerners were from England, so the church of choice was the Anglican Church. Taxes were paid to this church.

Family Life, Role of Women, and Social ClassesThe head of the house was the father. He made the rules. Women had few rights. They could not vote. A woman needed permission from her father or husband to own land, go into business, or to sign a contract.

There were four social classes. The wealthy and well educated made up the upper class. Small business owners, farmers, and artisans made up the middle class, the largest class. The lower class included servants and farm workers. The lowest of all were the slaves, who had the fewest rights. Slaves were considered property.




Religion of the colonies

The American colonies had houses of worship, but what the people learned in those church services depended on where they lived.

Most New Englanders went for church services to the meetinghouse, where they often for other things as well. The meetinghouse was a large building in the center of a town area and was used for town meetings as well as religious services.

Inside the meetinghouse were hard wooden benches. People sat on these benches for most of the day because that's how long the church services usually lasted.

People who lived in the Middle and Southern colonies went to more familiar-looking churches. They, too, would sit in church for most of the day. Back then, going to church was a very important affair, and people believed that it should be an all-day

event.

What people believed depended on where they lived:

The New England colonists were largely Puritans, who led very strict lives. The Middle colonists were a mixture of religions, including Quakers (led by William Penn),

Catholics, Lutherans, Jews, and others. The Southern colonists had a mixture of religions as well, including Baptists and Anglicans.

In the 18th Century, the Great Awakening swept the colonies. This was a movement to refocus people's thoughts and minds on the church and religion. Famous preachers like George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards brought many people into church.

American colonists were very religious people. Many of them left Europe because they could not believe in their faith freely. As there were no churches people went to meeting houses to pray together.

Many different religious groups came up all along the eastern coast. In New England, people were Puritans who led very strict lives. Pennsylvania became the home of the Quakers. They believed that all people were equal in front of God. Southern colonists were mostly Baptists and Anglicans.

As time went on immigrants from other countries brought their religion with them and spread their beliefs across the colonies. Towards the end of the 18 th century Catholics, Jews and other groups lived in America.


http://www.english-online.at/religion/roman-catholic-church/roman-catholic-church.htm

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