Welcome to Boston, Massachusetts
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LEARNING TO USE EVERYDAY TOOLS | CHILDREN EXPERIENCING HISTORY | CHILDREN OBSERVING HISTORY |
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Challenge: Become aware of how regional geography is depicted in poetry. Challenge: Explore the domain of geography. |
by participating in a free National Park Service program. |
Challenge: Compose a letter to a friend explaining what you saw occur on King Street. |
Challenge: Become aware of the weather and environment in U. S. culture through her songs. |
Challenge: Role play as a colonial character through your study of this time period. |
Challenge: Explore the History and Geography of the United States to locate similar endeavors in different regions. |
Challenge: In literature, how does the length of sunlight affect the inhabitants in an environment? |
Challenge: Compose his biographical sketch. Challenge: Create a Revolutionary War Period picture dictionary or series of alphabet cards. |
Challenge: Compose an acrostic based on wildlife living in a tropical rain forest. (Books related to rain forests .) |
Challenge: Be one of the travelers expanding to our western borders. |
Challenge: Create a song parody about the women attempting to boycott the merchants who favored the taxes. Challenge: Dramatize it as a puppet show. |
Challenge: Relate your experience with taxes at that time. |
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Challenge: How does a film director present culture in films? |
Challenge: Compose your own slave narratives. |
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Challenge: Create a gravestone for a fictitious character of this time period. Challenge: Compose a letter to a friend about the geography of Boston. Challenge: What of other Negroes living in Boston at that time? |
Challenge: Replay in your mind the activity of the powder monkeys during battles. Imagine the recoiling cannons after firing. Write about it. |
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Challenge: Follow the travels across the United States of Looney Lobster, our travel buddy mascot. |
Challenge: Compare Japanese and Native American mythology. Challenge: Find similarities in the folklore and fables of various cultures. |
Challenge: Which native groups would have lived here and how would they have used the flora for healing? |
historical sketch and Project: Study Massachusetts |
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history and politics/government |
oldest in the nation |
1629 |
history and culture |
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Map of her counties |
Share her history, neighborhoods, and landmarks with your family. |
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