Use activities individually or as a unit. Explore the geometry of quilts. Encourage students to explore the site further. Assign partners or small groups to computer stations.
Students trade worksheets with their partners and answer each other's questions.
When finished, students work together as a class to list aspects of daily life that have not changed since colonial times and those aspects that have changed. This site provides important background information for each of the original thirteen colonies, including maps. Experience life in 18th-century America at Colonial Williamsburg's site. The Library of Congress's online exhibition of African-American history provides a wealth of information about slavery and the daily lives of slaves in colonial America. Elicit student observations about details in the image.