http://www.hfmgv.org/smartfun/colonial/intro/
*This web site allows students to investigate the life of a 1700s Connecticut family by clicking on icons to look at various aspects of Colonial life in the 1700s.  This site includes interactive videos to be viewed and a question at the

http://www.yahooligans.com/Around_the_world/U_S_States/Pennsylvania/History/
*This web site gives students information on various aspects of Pennsylvania, both in Colonial times and present day.  The Lit. Circle book that the on grade level group is using takes place in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

http://www.library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/introduction.htm
*This interactive web site, created by students, tells about life during the 1700s.  Specific aspects of 1700s life that can be explored on this web site are: fashion, transportation, homes, Indian neighbors, jobs, etc.

The Revolutionary War Homepage:  This website shows what life was like in the prelude to the Revolutionary War.

The History Place- Revolutionary War:  This website shows a timeline of the specific events before the revolutionary war.

· http://library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/introduction.htm-  interactive web-site allowing, created by students to help other students learn about life during Colonial times. This site includes information on topics such as: fashion, transportation, homes, Indian neighbors, etc. of the Colonial families of the 1700s.

· http://www.ga.k12.pa.us/academics/LS/4/sstudies/Colonial/4K/4k98/4kdch.htm- web-site created by a fourth grader whose class collected information on various colonies of early Colonial America and represented important people, events,  etc. on stamps. This particular site shows the stamp representation of the colony of Pennsylvania (the setting of the on grade level lit. circle book).

Videos:
-“Jamestown”- a young boy walks through time with a “resident” of the early
colony of Jamestown. The video introduces the boy to the ways of life for early settlers of this colony. This video focuses mainly on very early settlement, before the 1700s, but can be used to touch on facts about life once the colony was more established.

-“St. Augustine”- a young girl travels through the historic city of St. Augustine, Florida. She is introduced to the ways of life of both the Spanish people who settled there in the 1740s and the French people who lived in the city during that time. This video gives a good representation of a slightly different way of life during the Revolutionary War time.

- “Children of the Colonial Frontier”- this video is narrated by a young girl, whose
family (the O’Conners) have recently moved to a family farm from a colony of other families. This video does a good job of expressing the struggles of the lifestyle a Colonial family would have had. This video is older and not as visually stimulating as the others, but provides worthwhile information for students.

-"1776" - This video is a musical about the signing of the Declaration of Independence.  It has characters such as John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, Ben Franklin, and other important people of the time.