Teacher Resources for K12 Classrooms
Plimoth Patuxet Museums is dedicated to providing educational resources that bring to life the history of Plymouth Colony and the Indigenous Homeland of Patuxet. Our teacher tools are carefully developed resources that will help you inspire your students to experience history in a new light.
How do we bring history alive for today’s learners? We start with primary sources - the building blocks of history! Primary sources can include written documents, archaeology, material culture, landscapes, oral histories, artworks, and photos.
Digital resources bring history alive in classrooms across the globe. Explore comprehensive multimedia sources to enliven and support your in-classroom lessons.
Homework Help Essays for Young Readers
Plimoth Patuxet historians have written these essays to help you with your homework and projects.
Plimoth Patuxet's collections are central to our understanding of the 17th century. Learn more about recent discoveries and research in our online and in-person exhibitions.
You are the Historian: Investigating the First Thanksgiving Digital Experience for Students
Plimoth Patuxet Museums has reimagined and redesigned "You Are the Historian: Investigating the First Thanksgiving", its popular interactive game that has entertained school-aged children and families since 2002! In conjunction with FableVision Studios, a multimedia production company, and an Indigenous Advisory Committee, Plimoth Patuxet Museums has created a new online game that explores Wampanoag life prior to European settlement and the year leading up to the 1621 harvest feast, today known as the “First Thanksgiving." The game investigates the interactions between the Wampanoag people of Patuxet and the earliest colonists known as the Pilgrims by exposing players to archaeological artifacts from the museum’s collections, primary source documents, and oral stories told from generation to generation.
"You Are The Historian" directly responds to the increased demand for nuanced and fact-based history told from both an Indigenous and Colonial perspective. The Museum has created an experience that will transport visitors to Patuxet, the pre-European homeland of the Wampanoag, and immerse them in a story of cultural change and persistence that spans 12,000 years. Students will be able to further explore the rich historical context of the Indigenous and Colonial experiences during their earliest encounters through magical time travel, an anonymous tipster, mysterious riddles, historic artifacts and archives, and plain, old-fashioned smart thinking!
Primary Source Pack
This package contains a collection of items relating to the Pilgrims. Included in this package are Of Plymouth Plantation, Mourt's Relation, Three Visitors to Early Plymouth and Good News From New England.
Purchasing this special package gives you a 20% discount off of the total cover price! (No additional discount applies.) We reserve the right to make substitutions based on item availability.
Pilgrim Pack
This package contains a collection of items relating to the Pilgrims. Life in 1627 Plymouth is an educational resource designed by our Education Department specifically for elementary educators. It includes background information, bibliographies for teachers and students, worksheet pages to copy for classroom use and games. Also included in this package are a Plimoth Plantation Coloring Book, If You Sailed the Mayflower, Three Young Pilgrims, Thanksgiving Primer, a Postcard Pack (set of twelve full-color postcards), and a Cup & Ball toy.
Purchasing this special package gives you a 20% discount off of the total cover price! (No additional discount applies.) We reserve the right to make substitutions based on item availability.
Native American Pack
This package contains a collection of items relating to the Native Americans. People of the East: 17th-century Wampanoag Life is an educational resource designed by our Education Department specifically for elementary educators. It includes background information, bibliographies for teachers and students, worksheet pages to copy for classroom use and games. Also included in this package are the books A River Ran Wild, If You Lived With the Iroquois, 1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving, How Chipmunk Got His Stripes, Corn Is Maize and 1 rabbit skin (colors may vary).
Purchasing this special package gives you a 20% discount off of the total cover price! (No additional discount applies.) We reserve the right to make substitutions based on item availability.
Plimoth Plantation Presents Mayflower II: A Compilation DVD
This DVD includes both Warwick Charlton's The Mayflower Story and Alan Villiers The Story of Mayflower II. Also included is an introduction by Whit Perry, Director of Maritime Preservation and Operations at Plimoth Plantation.
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We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân DVD
WE STILL LIVE HERE: Âs Nutayuneân tells a remarkable story of cultural revival by the Wampanoag of Southeastern Massachusetts. Their ancestors ensured the survival of the first English settlers in America, and lived to regret it. Now they are bringing their language home again. The story begins in 1994 when Jessie Little-Doe, an intrepid, thirty-something Wampanoag social worker, began having recurring dreams: familiar-looking people from another time addressing her in an incomprehensible language. Jessie was perplexed and a little annoyed– why couldn’t they speak English? Later, she realized they were speaking Wampanoag, a language no one had used for more than a century. These events sent her and members of the Aquinnah and Mashpee Wampanaog communities on an odyssey that would uncover hundreds of documents written in their language, lead Jessie to a Masters in Linguistics at MIT, and result in something that had never been done before – bringing a language alive again in an American Indian community after many generations with no Native speakers.
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American Experience: The Pilgrims DVD
American Experience: The Pilgrims The Pilgrims' narrative has been shrouded in myth, embedded in Thanksgiving Day feasts, football, and parades. Who were the men and women who constituted this multifarious band of English Protestants whom we call "the Pilgrims"? A two-hour documentary film by award-winning director Ric Burns, The Pilgrims chronicles the deep history, origins, and critical first decade of the first permanent English colony in New England. This DVD features subtitles in English.
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Plimoth Grist Mill Heritage 8 Row Flint Corn Sampe
“Nature hath delighted it selfe to beautify this Corne with great Variety of Colours.”
A true Plimoth Plantation original! In the 1990's Plimoth Plantation teamed up with botanists from UMASS Amherst to develop a corn which closely resembled period descriptions of the corn grown by the Wampanoag and adopted by the Pilgrims in the 1600's. Our Plimoth 8-Row Flint Corn is the result.
To produce this multi-colored Indian corn with 8 rows of kernels, an ancient 8-rowed white corn called Naragansett White Cap Flint (still grown in Rhode Island for Jonnycakes), was crossed with multi-colored flint corns. Years of selected seed saving resulted in a beautiful multi-colored corn which exactly matches the descriptions by visitors to early Plymouth Colony.
Our Plimoth 8-Row Flint is grown for us by Lazy Acres Farm in North Hadley, MA.
The corn is stone ground on antique millstones and, like the first grist mill built here in 1636, our waterwheel is powered by Plymouth’s Town Brook.
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Wampum
Click here to explore unique pieces of Native-made Wampum jewelry and art. Use the discount code TEACHER10 for additional discounts.
Stationery Set
This set includes 15 sheets of parchment paper, a quill and a glass ink jar. It's the perfect set to write old fashioned letters!
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