Great teaching tools to help your students understand the risks that the Pilgrims took to discover the New World. Students will create a landmark that commemorates both the European Settler and the Native American view points concerning the settling of America. 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. An article decribing the conflicting versions of the history of Plymoth, Massachusetts and the controversy surrounding its celebration of Thanksgiving. Entries from historical journals kept by Pilgrims form the basis for this look at the residents of Plimoth Plantation.