13 Colonies Activities Reading Passages Unit | Colonial America Worksheets Maps

The 13 Colonies (Colonial America or Early United States) History unit includes colonies geography, map activities, worksheets, notes, reading stations passages, and assessments for grades 6, 7, & 8. Over 275 pages of content will engage your students in exploring life in the Colonies with interactive activities designed to compare and contrast the New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies.

 

Like all of our History bundles, the American Colonies unit has a common flow created to reduce anxiety for you and your students throughout the year! We know that teachers love no-prep history activities, and students need structure and accountability to succeed; our units are taught with a common sequence, complete with mini-assessments along the way.

 

Here’s what’s included, organized in 8 sequenced subfolders AND on a linked Google-ready table of contents for easy access:

 

⭐ 1. THIRTEEN COLONIES INTRODUCTION ACTIVITY SUBFOLDER – Students either analyze visuals, primary source excerpts, and maps to make predictions about the content they will learn about or watch a video and complete a graphic organizer.

• 13 COLONIES INVESTIGATION INTRODUCTION LESSON
• COLONIES VIDEO GUIDE

 

⭐ 2. COLONIES VOCABULARY SUBFOLDER– Includes three assignment vocabulary options, review games, and a quiz. Also, includes Quizlet links for online learning practice with the same words and definitions!

 

⭐ 3. COLONIAL AMERICA GEOGRAPHY SUBFOLDER– Includes to student-centered geography activities!

• COLONIES CLICK AND LABEL MAP ACTIVITY
• WHERE IN THE WORLD COLONIES MAP SCAVENGER HUNT

 

⭐ 4. NOTES, READINGS, and GRAPHIC ORGANIZER SUBFOLDER–

Includes everything you need to teach the content via readings, activities, or direct instruction. Complete with a content quiz!

• 13 COLONIES READING WORKBOOK AND FOLDING PROJECT with QUIZ
• POWERPOINT NOTES and GRAPHIC ORGANIZER ACTIVITY SET. The graphic organizer fits perfectly before or after the notes!
• STUDENT-CENTERED READING STATIONS

 

⭐ 5. ACTIVITIES SUBFOLDER– Includes diverse, interactive, student-centered activities, worksheets, and close readings from which teachers can pick and choose based on personal style and class needs.

 

1. Triangle Trade Map and Reading Activity Set
2. Colonies Code Hacker Escape Room
3. Who was in the original 13? A visual pie chart analysis of the population of the original US colonies.
4. Jamestown Survivor-close reading, graphing activity, and game! Students learn about Jamestown in a close reading and then practice and play a game.
5. Thanksgiving Exposed! The True Story Behind Thanksgiving close reading, annotation guide, and graphic organizer
6. Comparing the North and South Colonies Venn diagram
7. Doodle Notes Summary Activity– Fun creative note-taking graphic organizer that allows students to detail the 6 key “big idea” concepts.
8. Tobacco- Then and Now PowerPoint
9. Colonial America Graphing Activity
10. History’s Mysteries- Smallpox Blankets? Is It True?-Close reading and claim, evidence, reasoning activity.

 

⭐6. WARM-UPS DAILY SKILL-BASED TEXT ANALYSIS WARM-UPS/ BELLRINGERS– Students make inferences and predictions from the text, choose the best evidence to support a claim, cite sources, paraphrase and learn to write strong commentary in these daily skill-based mini-lessons and practice slides.

 

⭐7. KEY CONCEPTS FOR US HISTORY SUBFOLDER – Each unit comes with a key concepts introduction PowerPoint and graphic organizer, Big Ideas Matching, Big Idea Claim, Evidence, Reasoning Writing Guides, Foldable Mini-Packet of Resources, and a Key Concepts Field Report Summary Activity. Also includes 2 unit-specific review activities:

 

• DOODLE NOTES SUMMARY ACTIVITY
• COLONIES KEY CONCEPT MATCHING REVIEW

 

⭐8. UNIT ASSESSMENT CLAIM, EVIDENCE, REASONING (CER) TEST– Each unit comes with an editable assessment that has students support claims with evidence.