Great teaching tools to help your students understand the risks that the Pilgrims took to discover the New World. Students learn how to make bouquets out of dried peppers or flowers.
Students learn about the methods of preparation and the types of food eaten by the pilgrims.
Students learn to make weavings out of paper or cloth just as women did during colonial times. The Pilgrim Fact Cards were designed to be used with the Pilgrim Study Unit , but are a valuable source of information on the Pilgrims of Plymouth, Massachusetts. This article gives the background on the American holiday of Thanksgiving. A brief history of Thanksgiving. The hardships faced by the Pilgrims upon their arrival in the New World are described, as are the many invaluable skills they learned from the Native Americans and the relationship that led to the feast we now think of as the first Thanksgiving.