Early American Intermediate Website Links

How to Use This Guide

https://www.bfbooks.com/Info-FAQ/Free-Downloads

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/ 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ 

https://www.fws.gov/ 

https://www.powwows.com/ 

Indigenous Peoples

Build a Model Native Home

• https://classroom.synonym.com/make-longhouse-school-project-5836407.html 
• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=HOMESCHOOL+WITH+ME%3A+DIY+LONGHOUSE 
• http://www.susankae.com/free_resources.htm 

Wampum Activities 

• https://www.amrevmuseum.org/make-your-own-wampum-belt-craft  
• http://www.nativetech.org/beadwork/wampumgraph/index.html 

Native American Diorama

• https://mrscoxhces.blogspot.com/2013/01/native-american-dioramas.html 
• https://theartoflearning-bermingham.blogspot.com/2014/12/project-annual-native-american-dioramas.html 

Make a Talking Stick

• http://homeschoolfridays.com/make-your-own-talking-stick/ 

Draw a Viking Ship

• https://drawinglessonsfortheyoungartist.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-draw-viking-ship-lesson-for.html 
• https://cassiestephens.blogspot.com/2013/11/in-artroom-4th-grade-viking-ships.html 
• https://cassiestephens.blogspot.com/2013/10/in-art-room-viking-ship-collages.html 

Build a Viking Longboat

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E2%80%9CDIY%3A+Viking+Longship%E2%80%9D+wesprout 
• https://www.crayola.com/free-coloring-pages/print/viking-ship-coloring-page/ 
• https://www.forbicolla.it/res/site118454/res771747_pagina-A4-gratis-5.jpg 

Dress Up Like a Viking

• https://vikingschoolvisits.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Viking-day-dressing-up-sheet.pdf 

Make a Viking Shield

• https://sonsofvikings.com/blogs/vikings-tv-series/how-to-make-your-own-viking-shield 
• https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/ideas/kids/how-to-make-a-viking-shield 
• https://deceptivelyeducational.blogspot.com/2013/01/viking-shield-upcycled-history-craft.html 

Lesson 1 

• Seven Continents Song

Lesson 5 

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E2%80%9CVoyage+of+St+Brendan%E2%80%9D+fundermation 

Lesson 6 

• https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-age/power-and-aristocracy/slaves-and-thralls/ 
• https://www.teachingideas.co.uk/vikings/the-viking-alphabet 

Lesson 7 

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E2%80%9CWhat%E2%80%99s+so+special+about+Viking+Ships%3F%E2%80%9D+TedEd 

Lesson 8 

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Vikings+for+Kids+%2F%2F+History+for+Kids+on+The+Touring+Teacher 

Lesson 12 

• https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-vikings 
• http://www.webexhibits.org/vinland/archeological.html 

Lesson 14

• https://www.newfoundlandlabrador.com/top-destinations/lanse-aux-meadows 
• https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/l-anse-aux-meadows-newfoundland 

Lesson 15 

• http://www.viking.no/e/life/music/ 

Lesson 17 

• https://www.pbs.org/video/traditional-wampum-belts-gy05in/ 
• https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/north-americas-ancient-cities-video 

Lesson 18 

• https://www.pbs.org/native-america/blogs/native-voices/how-the-iroquois-great-law-of-peace-shaped-us-democracy/ 
• www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/hconres331.pdf 

Lesson 19

• https://montessoriforeveryone.com/assets/free_downloads/Native_American_Homes.pdf 

Lesson 20 

• https://www.onondaganation.org/government/clan-mothers/ 

Lesson 21 

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Haudenosaunee+or+Iroquois%3F+nysmuseum 

Lesson 22

• https://worldlacrosse.sport/about-world-lacrosse/origin-history/ 
• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Ishtaboli%3A+Little+Brother+of+War%22+on+the+ChoctawNationOK
• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Cherokee+Nation+Stickball
   

Age of Discovery

Make a Model 15th-Century Sailing Ship

• https://www.papertoys.com/santamaria.htm 
• https://toy-models.wonderhowto.com/how-to/recreate-models-christopher-columbuss-sailing-ships-from-1492-0121462/ 

Make a Ship’s Hourglass 

• https://post-classical-inspired-diy.weebly.com/blog/diy-hourglass 
• https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Sand-Timer-from-Recycled-Plastic-Bottles 

Lesson 25 

• https://www.allpatronsaints.com/pages/st-christopher-the-patron-saint-of-travelers 

Lesson 28 

• https://www.history.com/news/christopher-columbus-ships-caravels 

Lesson 29

• https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/meet-survivors-taino-tribe-paper-genocide  

Lesson 30 

• https://discoveringtheworldthroughmysonseyes.com/category/discovering-our-taino-ancestry/ 

Lesson 31 

• https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sargassosea.html 
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sargasso-sea 
• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=This+Incredible+Animation+Shows+How+Deep+the+Ocean+Really+Is-+Tech+Insider  

Lesson 35

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Incredible+Journey+of+Cabeza+De+Vaca+(1527-1536) 

Colonies

ONLINE RESOURCES 

• https://www.jyfmuseums.org/Home/Components/News/News/75/
• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=People+of+the+River%3A+Powhatan+Indians%E2%80%99+Henricus+Historical+Park+Educational+film 
• https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2017/11/first-english-settlers-survived-and-joined-native-americans 
• https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/newfound-survivor-camp-may-explain-lost-colony-roanoke 
• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Virginia%E2%80%99s+First+People%3A+The+Powhatan%E2%80%93The+Language+Barrier 
• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Virginia%E2%80%99s+First+People%3A+The+Powhatan%E2%80%93The+Culture+Barrier 
• https://ca.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/americanexperiencethepilgrims/        
• Virtual tours are available here:        
  “Plimoth Plantation: Virtual Field Trip” on the Scholastic YouTube channel
• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=In+Penn%E2%80%99s+Shadow%3A+Philadelphia%3A+the+Great+Experiment 

CRAFTS & PROJECTS

• https://historicjamestowne.org/wp-content/uploads/What-is-an-Artifact.pdf. 
• https://ask.mrdonn.org/archaeology/ 
• https://www.jyfmuseums.org/learn/videos/the-story-of-the-sea-venture 
• https://www.jyfmuseums.org/home/showpublisheddocument/34/638022069299100000. 
• https://www.jyfmuseums.org/Home/Components/ServiceDirectory/ServiceDirectory/36/ 
• https://www.jyfmuseums.org/home/showpublisheddocument/40/638022069313170000 
• https://www.jyfmuseums.org/home/showpublisheddocument/38/638022069308470000
• https://teachitct.org/lessons/historic-maps-skill-builder-activity/ 
• https://youarethehistorian.org/#/intro 

Lesson 38 

• https://www.nps.gov/cajo/planyourvisit/werowocomoco.htm 

Lesson 41

• https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/03/all 

Lesson 43

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-pilgrims-before-plymouth-111851259/ 

The Geneva Bible 

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Pawn+Stars%3A+1583+Geneva+Bible+(Season+15)+%7C+History 

Lesson 48 

• https://www.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-Mi-So/Samoset.html 

Lesson 49

• https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/wampanoag-and-pilgrim-women-1620s-video 

Lesson 50 

• https://historyofmassachusetts.org/squanto-the-former-slave/ 

Lesson 52

• https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/colonial-america/colonial-north-america/v/society-and-religion-in-the-new-england-colonies 
• https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/colonial-america/colonial-north-america/v/politics-and-native-relations-in-the-new-england-colonies 

Lesson 54

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Making+of+an+American+Myth%3A+Benjamin+West%2C+Penn%27s+Treaty+with+the+Indians 

Lesson 55

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Inside+the+Secret+Mounds+of+Pre-Historic+America  

Lesson 56

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Life+of+Robert+de+La+Salle+%E2%80%93+A+Lesson+for+Kids 

Lesson 57

• https://www.rmg.co.uk/royal-observatory/history  
• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Greenwich+Mean+Time+Explained+%7C+Time+Zones+For+Kids 
• http://www.ovovideo.com/en/edmund-halley/ 

Lesson 58 

• https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/colonial-america/colonial-north-america/v/the-middle-colonies 
• https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/colonial-america/colonial-north-america/v/developing-an-american-colonial-identity 

Lesson 61

• https://kids.kiddle.co/Middle_Passage 

Lesson 63

• http://www.colonialsense.com/Society-Lifestyle/Signs_of_the_Times/Tanning.php 

French & Indian War Resources

• https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/colonial-america/colonial-north-america/v/developing-an-american-colonial-identity 
• https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/road-to-revolution/the-american-revolution/v/the-seven-years-war-part-2 
• https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/french-and-indian-war-video 
• https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/french-and-indian-war/ 

Lesson 66 

• https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-11-13-vw-237-story.html 

Lesson 67

• https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/road-to-revolution/creating-a-nation/v/regional-attitudes-about-slavery-1754-1800 
   

Revolutionary War

CRAFTS & PROJECTS

• https://www.dkfindout.com/us/history/american-revolution/ 
• www.jyfmuseums.org/learn/videos/annas-adventures/annas-adventures-introduction 
• http://www.historyisfun.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/AnnasAdventures_DrillingCommands_v3.pdf 

ONLINE RESOURCES

• https://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/teachers.html  
• https://www.mountvernon.org/ 

Lesson 68

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=On+Being+Brought+from+Africa+to+America%E2%80%99+Read+by+Cornelius+Eady 
• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Analyzing+Phillis+Wheatley%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98On+Being+Brought+From+Africa+to+America 

Lesson 69

• https://www.biography.com/military-figure/crispus-attucks 
• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=A+Tribute+to+Crispus+Attucks+%E2%80%93+Part+1

Lesson 70

• https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/his-excellency-general-washington 

Lesson 71 

• https://www.jyfmuseums.org/learn/research-and-collections/essays/what-was-the-proclamation-of-1763 

Lesson 72

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Sons+of+Liberty+History 

Lesson 73 

• https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/disguise-of-sons-of-liberty 
• https://mrnussbaum.com/rules-of-the-boston-tea-party 

Lesson 75 

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Would+You+Have+Joined+the+American+Revolution%3F 

Lesson 76 

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Articles+of+Confederation+-+The+Constitution+Before+the+Constitution 

Lesson 77

• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs 

Lesson 79 

• https://virtualny.ashp.cuny.edu/FIRE/greatfire1776.html 

Lesson 83 

• https://www.nps.gov/vafo/learn/historyculture/valley-forge-history-and-significance.htm 
• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=George+Washington%E2%80%93The+Founding+Fathers+%26+The+American+Revolution+Documentary+on+People%27s+Profiloe 

Lesson 84 

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Liberty%E2%80%99s+Kids+Episode+22 
• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Washington%E2%80%99s+War+on+the+George+Washington%E2%80%99s+Mount+Vernon 

Lesson 86 

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Episode+136+%22Yorktown  (Episode 136, not 36)

Lesson 87 

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Judas+Maccabaeus%2C+HWV+63%3A+See%2C+the+Conqu%27ring+Hero+Comes!+Tabernacle+Choir 

Lesson 88

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Washington%E2%80%99s+Generals+Marquis+de+Lafayette 

Lesson 89 

• https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/road-to-revolution/creating-a-nation/v/the-articles-of-confederation 

Lesson 90 

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/12/12/abigail-adams-smallpox-coronavirus-vaccine/ 
• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=National+Constitution+Center+%E2%80%98The+History+of+the+U.S.+Flag  

Lesson 92

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Constitutional+Compromises%3A+Crash+Course+Government+and+Politics+%235 
• https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/road-to-revolution/creating-a-nation/v/the-constitutional-convention 

Lesson 93 

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Separation+of+Powers+and+Checks+and+Balances%3A+Crash+Course+Government+and+Politics+%233 

Lesson 94 

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=More+Perfect+Union%3A+George+Washington+and+the+Making+of+the+Constitution 

Lesson 96

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=A+3-minute+guide+to+the+Bill+of+Rights%E2%80%93Belinda+Stutzman 
   

Young U.S.

CRAFTS & PROJECTS

• https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=imex+Lewis+%26+Clark+ExpeditionSet+IMXS0523  
• https://asailorslifeforme.org/ 
• https://www.amazon.com/Academy-New-Bedford-Whaler-Model/dp/B0006O2ZQC 
• https://www.3dgeography.co.uk/make-a-globe 
• https://runwildmychild.com/panning-for-gold 

ONLINE RESOURCES

• https://www.monticello.org/research-education/for-educators/interactive-posters/lewis-and-clark-artifacts-at-monticello/ 
• https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/ 
• https://www.thealamo.org/remember 
• https://pplspcoll.wordpress.com/2014/11/13/saltwatercolors/ 
• https://www.learningtogive.org/resources/search?search_api_views_fulltext=underground+railroad 
• https://www.nps.gov/subjects/undergroundrailroad/index.htm 

Lesson 97

• https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-washington-and-the-story-of-the-first-inaugural-address 

Lesson 101

• https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/lewis-clark/ 
• https://www.pbs.org/video/or-perish-in-the-attempt-w18h2t/ 

Lesson 102

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=When+the+British+burned+the+White+House+cbs 
• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=War+of+1812+in+12+Minutes+-+Manny+Man+Does+History
• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+War+of+1812+-+Crash+Course+US+History+%2311

 Lesson 103

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+electrifying+speeches+of+Sojourner+Truth%E2%80%93Daina+Ramey+Berry  
• https://sankofastorybooks.com/product/sojourner-truth/  

Lesson 104

• https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/why-a-prominent-american-artist-paints-skin-pitch-black 

Lesson 105 

• https://www.cherokeehistorical.org/unto-these-hills/trail-of-tears/ 

Lesson 106 

• https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44644/a-psalm-of-life 
• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Japanese+Isolation+Joshua+Downey 
• http://www.girlonawhaleship.org/ 
• https://www.whalingmuseum.org/learn/classroom-tools/
• https://educators.mysticseaport.org/artifacts/cwm_ship/ 

Lesson 107

• http://www.mysticseaport.org/explore/village/ 
• https://fairhaventours.com/manjiro-nakahama/ 

Lesson 108 

• https://whitfield-manjiro.org/ 
• https://www.gohawaii.com/hawaiian-culture/history 
• https://rosenbach.org/visit/exhibitions/manjiro-drifting-1841-2020/ 

Lesson 109 

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Japanese+Castaway+Gives+First+Description+of+USA+(1852)+%2F%2F+Incredible+Story+of+John+Manjiro 

Lesson 113 

• https://www.pbs.org/show/underground-railroad-william-still-story/ 

Lesson 114

• https://www.mission-us.org/games/flight-to-freedom/ 

Lesson 117 

• https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/civil-war-era/sectional-tension-1850s/v/uncle-toms-cabin-part-1 
• https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/civil-war-era/sectional-tension-1850s/v/uncle-toms-cabin-part-3 

Civil War 

CRAFTS & PROJECTS

• https://itssopurdy.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-to-civil-war-handkerchief-dolls.html 
• https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Quill-Pen-out-of-a-Feather 

ONLINE RESOURCES

• https://acwm.org/learn/homefronted/ 
• https://nmaahc.si.edu/  
• https://www.vox.com/2015/4/14/8396477/maps-explain-civil-war 

Lesson 120 

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=How+one+piece+of+legislation+divided+a+nation%E2%80%93Ben+Labaree%2C+Jr 
• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Ultimate+Guide+to+the+Presidents%3A+The+Civil+War+%26+A+Nation+Divided+

Lesson 122 

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Civil+War+Part+2%3A+Crash+Course+US+History+%2321 

Lesson 124

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Civil+War%3A+Drum+Commands+by+Ethan+Mayo 

Lesson 125

• https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states 

Lesson 126 

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Battle+of+Shiloh+(1862)+%E2%80%93+American+Civil+War+DOCUMENTARY 
• https://civilwaronthewesternborder.org/islandora/search/Kansas%20Colored%20Volunteers?type=dismax 

Lesson 129

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E2%80%9C%27The+Audacity+of+Robert+Smalls%27+%7C+Michael+B.+Moore+%7C+TEDxStMarksSchool