National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Pocahontas
Among the most famous women in early American history, Pocahontas is credited with helping the struggling English settlers survive.
Nebraska Studies
Nebraska Studies: Pedro De Villasur Sent to Nebraska
Concern over the French trading with the Native Indians, the Spanish commissioned Lieutenant-General Villasur to stop them in 1720.
Texas State Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association: Prehistoric Texas [Pdf]
An activity guide where students refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. In this lesson, students are asked to research the four stages of cultural development in early...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Creek War Journals
After a study of the Creek War, students will explore perspectives of families on both sides of the war. Students will compose journal entries from a selected social class of the era to develop and exhibit an understanding and...
Other
The Origin and History of the English Language
How many native English speakers are there in the world today? Learn important facts and statistics about the English-speaking world as well as a history of the language from its Germanic beginnings to the present.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Chart of Early Virginia, 1632
A map of the lower James River, Chesapeake Bay, and Accomack County, showing the early English settlements in the Virginia Colony in 1632. The map is keyed to show the extent of English settlement at the time, and shows the Native...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Trail of Tears: The Cherokee Fight Against Removal
Students are introduced to the Cherokees' struggle to remain on their land in the early 1800s. They will learn about how the Cherokees assimilated parts of the culture of the white American South and whether this helped them to keep...
Other
Encyclopedia of Arkansas: Louisiana Purchase to Statehood
A historical overview of the time period covering the Louisiana Purchase to the beginning of Arkansas Statehood (1803 through 1860).
Library of Congress
Loc: The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands
Available in both English and Dutch, this Library of Congress and Library of the Netherlands collaborative project offers over 11,000 digitized images relating to the Dutch in America. Includes a letter describing the purchase of...
British Library
British Library: Teaching Resources: The Tempest: Slideshow Who Is Savage & Who Is Civilised?
These activities encourage students to explore the 'brave new world' of The Tempest in light of thought-provoking texts on early modern colonization. A link to a slideshow featuring images of Native Americans and Europeans which...
PBS
Pbs: About All You Can Eat: A Feast at Plimouth Plantation
A lesson in the culinary delicacies of the Plymouth Plantation in 1627. In this integrated lesson, students examine the history of foods eaten during this colonial era and prepare an actual meal based on what they have learned. This...
The Field Museum
Field Museum: Exhibits: The Ancient Americas
Gain a deeper understanding of the Americas on this journey through 13,000 years of human ingenuity and achievement in the western hemisphere.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Wisconsin State History for Kids
Kids learn about the history and timeline of the state of Wisconsin including early explorers, Native Americans, pioneers, Northwest Territory, and the Black Hawk War.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: Ap Us History Study Guide, Period Two: 1607 1754
[Free Registration/Login Required] Advanced placement U.S. History learning module on the emerging colonial and native societies between 1607-1754. Resources for students include video, essays, timeline and primary source documents.
University of Washington
Northwest Imagery: The Photography of Edward and Asahel Curtis
Edward and Asahel Curtis provide wonderful insight into Washington State in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Edward provides us his perceived traditions of North American Indians and Asahel photographed Washington's natural resources...
Starfall
Starfall: Dorothy Strait
A short interactive story for early readers based on the artist Dorothy Strait. Two paintings about powwows are presented and the story vocabulary is posted below the book. A link also takes you to a short biography.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Extra, Extra!! Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Newscast
This lesson plan will be an interdisciplinary lesson plan that involves both English Language Arts and Social Studies (History). The lesson plan will be primarily technology-based and also project-based that will have the young scholars...
Peabody Essex Museum
Peabody Essex Museum
Located in Salem, Massachusetts. America's oldest continuously operating museum, founded in 1799. Maritime arts and history; American decorative arts; early American architecture; Asian export art; Asian, Oceanic, African arts and...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Alabama State History for Kids
Kids learn about the history and timeline of the state of Alabama including early explorers, Native Americans, the Civil War, and Civil Rights.
BBC
Bbc: History: The Story of the Conquistadors
A well known historian tells the story of the early Spanish explorers known as "conquistadors". He discusses their motivation, what effect they had on the native American societies and much more. Archived.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 5: Peace Treaty of Massasoit
Fifth graders develop and express claims through discussions and writing which examine the causes and consequences of historical events as they explore the relationships between early colonists and Native Americans.
Curated OER
Etc: Shell Heaps on Cape Cod, Pre European
A sketch map of Cape Cod showing the sites of shell mounds along the coast line indicating the sites of early Native American settlements.
Curated OER
Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Wi: Silver Mound Archeological District
Site of early Native American settlement.
Curated OER
Etc: Maps Etc: The Country East of the Mississippi, 1650
A map from 1872 of the country east of the Mississippi for the year 1650, forty-seven years after the settlement of Jamestown. This map shows early commencement of European settlement and the principal Native American tribal lands east...