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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: English Ii, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
Three seventeenth-century homes in Pennsylvania and New York and three accounts from those English colonies of the factors leading to prosperity and permanence.
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Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: Teachers: Geography and Its Impact on Colonial Life

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Beginning with a discussion on how people adapt to or relocate to environments, this lesson encourages students to explore why the Colonists settled in specific regions. In groups, students examine primary documents, analyzing Colonists'...
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Curated OER

A Mapp of Ye Improved Part of Pensilvania, Ca. 1687

For Students 9th - 10th
Three seventeenth-century homes in Pennsylvania and New York and three accounts from those English colonies of the factors leading to prosperity and permanence.