Massachusetts

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Thematic Connections ⚒️

Select a topic and examine it through the theme lens: Changemakers.

• The Wampanoag Tribe helped the Pilgrims learn how to survive which would change both their lives and the newcomers from Eruope.

Curricular Connections

Continue your learning by choosing one of these related activities.

Related Social Studies Topics

• Democracy

• The U.S. Constitution

• William Penn

• Jamestown

• The Powhatan Tribe

• Lenni Lenape

Timeline Challenge

• Start a class timeline (or add to an existing timeline) showing important events from America's early colonies.

Debate

• • Discuss: The colonists who landed in Massachusetts had no right to form their own government since they were still citizens of another country.

Create

• Map Statehood (in Prenda World)

• Choose a way to show what you know!

   (Not sure what to do? Create a dinner invitation to the First Thanksgiving!)

Fun Activity

• • The colonists relied on the Native Americans to teach them how to survive. But they had no common language. Experience how difficult that might have been by doing one of the activities at this link: Communicate Without Words