Building a new system : Colonial America, 1607-1763
Social studies curriculum should expose high ability students to historical situation that challenge their critical reasoning and nurture their search for meaning in an ongoing quest to understand themselves and those within their world
Print Book, English, ©2003
Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., Dubuque, Iowa, ©2003
History
"Grades 4-5."
iv, 363 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
9780787293451, 0787293458
61246752
Pt. I. Introduction
pt. II. Lesson plans
Introduction and pre-assessment
The concept of systems
The natural environment as a system
The natural environment as a system : its influence on Native Americans
The natural environment as a system : its influence on the English colonists
Native Americans during the colonial period : a focus on the Powhatan confederacy and the Jamestown settlers
Persuasive writing : two cultures clash
Points of view and assumptions
Reasoning about education during colonial times
Life in the thirteen colonies
Tobacco : green gold
Multiple perspectives
Part 1 : from the system of indentured servitude to the system of slavery
Part 2 : from the system of indentured servitude to the system of slavery
The French and Indian War
The political system of colonial America prior to the Revolutionary War
pt. III. Implementation guidelines
pt. IV. References