Enrichment Links

1^st Quarter

2^nd Quarter

3^rd Quarter

4^th Quarter

Terra Nova

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1^st Quarter

Chapter 1: The World in 1500

http://www.columbusnavigation.com/

Navigate to the Americas with Christopher Columbus.

Chapter 2: European Exploration of the Americas

http://www.elizabethi.org/us/

Take a closer look at England’s most fabulous queen.

Chapter 3: The English Establish 13 Colonies

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/salem/

Experience the Salem witch trials. Will you survive?

Chapter 4: The Colonies Develop

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cescott/colonial.html

Understand the colonial period by examining economics.

Chapter 5: Beginnings of an American Identity

http://www.fi.edu/franklin/

Get to know Ben Franklin in “Glimpses of the Man.”

2^nd Quarter

Chapter 6: The Road to Revolution

http://www.monticello.org/jefferson/dayinlife/sunrise/home.html

Visit Jefferson’s Virginia plantation, Monticello, and follow “A Day in the Life of Thomas Jefferson.”

Chapter 7: The American Revolution

http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/

Play a Revolutionary War game.

Chapter 8: Confederation to Constitution

http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/convention/

Join the delegates at Philadelphia’s Constitutional Convention.

Constitution Handbook

http://www.constitutionfacts.com/index.cfm?page=quiz.cfm

Take four interactive quizzes to test your knowledge.