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The Pilgrims, Wampanoag, and Me Curriculum Web

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This WebQuest is designed for third grade students to study the relationship between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag, as well as their daily life and basic history. This curriculum web will take them on a journey through WebQuests and activities that help them understand the precarious relationship between the two cultures as well as comparing and contrasting their lifestyles to our life today. This unit integrates 3rd grade Social Studies standards, with ELA and Instructional Technology.

To complete this curriculum web students will:

1. Take a virtual trip to Plimoth Plantation and record one new thing they learned about the two cultures.

2. Follow a WebQuest and complete a worksheet comparing and contrasting the lives of the Pilgrims, Wampanoag and themselves.

**3. Create a PowerPoint mini book about their day based on the format of the books Sarah Morton’s Day and Samuel Eaton’s Day.**

Curriculum Frameworks Learning Standards:

English-Language Arts: G3-4 19.9, 19.13, 21.2, 22.4, 22.5, 22.6, 23.5

History and Social Science: 3.2, 3.3, 3.12

Instruction Technology: G3-5 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.14, 1.17, 1.18, 1.19, 1.20, 1.21, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

NETS: 1a, 1b, 2b, 3a, 3b, 6a, 6b

Evaluation:

Each individual activity will be evaluated and the total points will be transferred to a final evaluation for one overall grade.

Handouts, Samples, and Rubrics:

Compare & contrast WebQuest (Activity 2)

“A Day in the Life” PowerPoint project example (Activity 3)

Mini book Rubric for “A Day in the Life” PowerPoint project (Activity 3)

Final Evaluation Rubric for Pilgrim and Wampanoag WebQuest Project

Resources:

Internet

Plimoth Plantation-“You are the Historian” http://www.plimothplantation.org/education/olc/index_js2.html

Scholastic-The First Thanksgiving

http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/daily_life/index.htm

Books-

Sarah Morton’s Day and Samuel Eaton’s Day by Kate Waters

Credits and citations

Original webquest template design by Dan Schellenberg using valid XHTML and CSS, taken from www.Webquest.org.

**Waters, Kate (1989). Sarah Morton's day; a day in the life of a pilgrim girl. New York, NY: Scholastic, Inc.**

**Waters, Kate (1993). Samuel Eaton’s day; a day in the life of a pilgrim boy. New York, NY: Scholastic, Inc.**

Cunningham, Craig A, & Billingsley, Marty (2006). Curriculum webs; Weaving the web into teaching and learning. Boston, MA: PearsonEducation Inc.

This project is a requirement of INST 523, fall 2008 at Bridgewater State College and has been completed with acknowledged feedback and suggestions from Dr. Thanh Nguyen and fellow classmates.