Tested Classroom Activities Supporting the Unit Themes of:

From Caravels to the Constitution




ACTIVITIES SUPPORTING THE NEW PUBLICATION - From Caravels to the Constitution by Marjorie Duby.
(Purchase it at: Creative Teaching Press.)

Content: Blackline masters - Using word searches, hidden messages, analogies, anagrams, and creative puzzles, students will learn about history while they apply critical-thinking skills. This resource provides students with opportunities to organize and analyze information and to draw conclusions. Extension activities promote practical, informative, narrative, and expository writing skills to help meet the standards. 112 pages [LW405 - From Caravels to the Constitution - $13.99] ( Table of contents)


Unit 1: Land & Water Environments


  • Map resource: Maps of colonial Massachusetts
  • Poetry resource: History and geography through poetry
  • Lyrics resources: Learning about regions through songs

    • Unit 2: Resources in the East
    Unit 3: Native Americans

  • Timeline resource: Native American timeline
  • Booklist resource: Native American culture through literature

    • Unit 4: Regional Colonization & Acculturation

  • Colonial resources and links
  • Online content: Was it a sound investment to colonize New England?
  • Passenger list resource: Passenger Lists to New England and Virginia
  • Writing activity: Our colonial charter
  • Role playing activity: Your Colony Simulation
  • Online content: Gravestone of Roger Clap, Kings Chapel Burial Ground
  • Writing activity: Life During Colonial Times

    • Unit 5: Voices: The Witchcraft Dilemma &
    Native American Advice

  • Primary sources: Salem Witchcraft Background, Trials, Characters
  • Writing activity: Witchcraft hysteria
  • Art activity: Design a colonial gravestone

    • Unit 6: Voices: Enslaved Africans Create
    Their American Culture

  • Timeline resource: African Culture
  • Online content: Enslaved Africans build their culture
  • Mathematics activity: Graphing the Negro population in Boston
  • Booklist resource: Africans through literature

    • Unit 7: Voices: Indentured Servants, Apprentices,
    Artisans, & Mechanics Build the Economy

  • Writing activity: Corresponding with King Charles II and Parliament in a written simulation
  • Timeline resource: Founding a Nation timeline
  • Mathematics activity: Apprentice workers
  • Advertisement resource: Paul Revere as as a dentist

    • Unit 8: Voices: Women:
    Invisible in Law, Visible in Deeds

  • Online content: The will of Mary Chilton Winslow
  • Online content: Mary Dyer
  • Writing activity: Mob action as a parody
  • Broadside resource: Susanna Renken's shop

    • Unit 9: Voices: Patriot Leaders

  • Online scavenger hunt: Paul Revere

    • Unit 10: Friction: Sparks Ready to Ignite

  • Online scavenger hunt: Revolutionary Period
  • Writing activities: Colonial period
  • Writing activity: War Is poetry

    • Unit 11: Independence: Forming a New Government

  • Role playing activity: Attending a town meeting
  • Writing activity: Forming our Declaration of Independence

    • Additional Resources:

  • Illustrations as resources: Primary Source Illustrations
  • Booklist resource: Varied Booklists
  • Strategy resource: Classroom use of literature circles
  • Film resource: Films by continents
  • Strategy resource: Travel buddy projects

    • Additional Activities:

  • Colonial letters
  • Colonial alphabet book

    • Educational practitioner:

  • Classroom Experiences



    • Educator is the recipient of the Miss Rumphius Award.


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