Thirteen Colonies Lesson Plan And Rubric printable pdf download

Thirteen Colonies Lesson Plan And Rubric

Section one: Early Colonies have mixed success

Lesson Plan: Number One

Teacher: Kara Moore Grade/Subject: 8

grade Social Studies Textbook: Creating America

(McDougal Littell)

OBJECTIVES

1. To describe early English attempts at colonizing

2. To explain English financing of a colony

3. To summarize how Jamestown was founded and grew

4. To analyze the conflict of the Jamestown colonist both

Native Americans and among the colonist themselves

The English Establish 13 colonies is a Unit, I am going to break down my unit by sections and create

lesson plans around each section. These lesson plans could only be one day of class time or several, this

just depends on individual classes and the pace the students are at.

Step one: I will start class out with a review about how the Spanish and the English became

competitors , with this being said the English knew they needed to start traveling to the new world and

establishing colonies.

I will then begin asking students what will we need to start a colony?

Students suggestions will be written on the board

Example:

Money

Food

Shelter

Supply

Government

I will then motivate students to take things a little further about what they suggested… I want EXAMPLES

Money

Food

Shelter

Supply / protection

Government

people

animals

wood

guns

chose

Business

plants

tools

elect

Thirteen Colonies Lesson Plan And Rubric