Life in the Colonies
Colonial Workers:
Students were given a template to answer the following questions:
Occupation?
What are you going to do when you get to Jamestown?
Why are you good at your job?
Students were allowed to research the information on the web. The following are samples.
Multimedia Description:
Colonial Life in Jamestown
Here are their multimedia projects that they produced in the Hyperstudio program. Click on one of their names below to view a project. (Please note: These only work on Apple computers, and you must download the Hyperstudio plug-in first in order to view their projects if you don't have it on your computer.) Click here to download the plug-in.
Students were given a hyperstudio template to fill in information on colonial life in Jamestown: food, religion, shelter, clothing, jobs, illnesses, and education.
Video of students acting out characters: