• Home
  • Blog
  • WIKI
  • Contact
  • User Guide
  • TeachAmericanHistory
 
  • Curriculum Materials
    • Exploration and Colonization
    • American Revolution
    • Constitution and Government
    • Growth of the New Nation
    • Sectionalism, Slavery, and Growth of the Republic
    • Civil War
    • Reconstruction
    • Western Expansion
    • Industrial America
    • Progressive Era, Roaring Twenties, & World War I
    • The Great Depression
    • World War II
    • Cold War
    • Modern America
  • Workshop Materials
  • Artifact Lessons
    • Artifact Lesson Plans
  • ETHS Publications
    • Colonization and Independance
    • New Government
    • Early Westward Expansion and the New Republic
    • The Growth of the Republic
    • Civil War
    • Reconstruction
    • Industrial America and Westward Expansion
    • WWI, 1920s, 1930s, WWII
    • Modern U.S
  • County History
    • Anderson County
    • Campbell County
    • Claiborne County
    • Cumberland County
    • Fentress County
    • Grainger County
    • Hancock County
    • Knox County
    • Morgan County
    • Roane County
    • Scott County
    • Union County
  • National History Day

Select Curriculum Materials items below:

  • Exploration and Colonization
    • Stds. 4.1-4.2/8.1-8.18
    • ETHS Teaching Materials
    • ETHS Articles
    • Additional Resources
  • American Revolution
  • Constitution and Government
  • Growth of the New Nation
  • Sectionalism, Slavery, and Growth of the Republic
  • Civil War
  • Reconstruction
  • Western Expansion
  • Industrial America
  • Progressive Era, Roaring Twenties, & World War I
  • The Great Depression
  • World War II
  • Cold War
  • Modern America

ETHS Workshops and Programs

National History Day

Upcoming Teacher Workshops at the East Tennessee History Center

Field Trips or Outreach Programs from East Tennessee History Center

 

Exploration and Colonization Additional Sources

Exploration and Colonization Additional Activities


Attracting Settlers of Virgina
Children of the Colony of Jamestown
Columbian Exchange Activity
Creature Picture Activity
Deerskin Trade Facts Activity
Excerpt from John Cotton's Sermon to John Winthrop
Excerpt from John Smith, A Description of New England
Excerpt from John Winthrop, "A Model of Christian Charity" (1630)
Excerpt from Journal of John Winthrop
Exploration of Virginia Primary Sources
Jamestown and Native Americans
Journey to Pennsylvania
Letter from Jamestown
Letter from Plymouth
Pennsylvania and Native Americans
Slave Trade Online Database Activity
The Mayflower Compact
Primary Source Activity: John Cotton- God's Promise to his Plantation
Primary Source Activity: John Smith - Description of New England
Primary Source Activity: John Winthrop- Model of Christian Charity
Reader's Theater: Motives for Exploration and Colonization

Exploration and Colonization Web Links

The McClung Museum

The McClung Museum’s permanent collection contains an excellent exhibit on Archeology and the Native Peoples of Tennessee.

Slave Voyages

This website has a searchable database of information on the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.  It also has lesson plans for utilizing the site in the classroom.

Massacre at Mystic U-Tube Video

Video on the Massacre at Mystic (Please preview before using in class)

Pequot War U-Tube Video

Video on Pequot War (Please preview before using in class)

 

 

  • Home
  • Site Map
  • Privacy
  • Photo Credits
Teaching American History · 601 S. Gay Street · Post Office Box 1629 · Knoxville, TN 37901-1629
865-215-8824 · eMail: