Submitted by: Amanda Chivinski
Email: AOKTeacher@aol.com
School/University/Affiliation: Kent State University

Date: January 31, 1999
Grade Level(s): 5, 6
Subject(s):  Social Studies/US History

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Duration: one ? two 45 minute sessions.

Description: This lesson gets kids thinking about all of the difficulties in creating a new colony.

Goals: To allow the students to see the difficulties that the original settlers of the 13 colonies had in creating a colony that would please everyone.

Objectives:

1. The students will be able to create a list of six criteria for their own new colony.
2. The students will be able to discuss, in groups, all of the different things that each member would like to include in their colony.
3.The students will be able to create a visual representation in the form of a poster of their new colony.
4.The students will be able to decide between only three of each person's criteria to be placed in the colony.
5.The students will gain a better understanding of the difficulties there were in creating a new colony that all would be happy with.

Materials: posterboard, paper, pencils, markers, crayons.

Procedure:

1. Introduce lesson by giving a brief overview of what they will be learning about in this chapter.
2. Pass out slips of paper numbered 1?6.
3. Ask children to think about the types of things they would like to have if they had the opportunity to create a new place to live.
4. Have the children write six things that they would include in their own colony.