Everyday life in the 13 colonies - PBS website
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/perspectives_daily.html
vocabulary game - settlement of U.S.
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/socsci/or/books/applications/ewordgame/index_e.html?book=e&chapter=4&title=Chapter%204:%20European%20Settlements
vocab game - New England colonies
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/socsci/or/books/applications/ewordgame/index_e.html?book=e&chapter=5&title=Chapter%205:%20New%20England%20Colonies
history of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia
info about William Penn and Ben Franklin
http://www.ushistory.org/
The Thanksgiving feast at Plymouth
http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=mini_home&mini_id=1083
Plymouth (Plimoth Plantation)
http://www.plimoth.org/
Early colonies, includes link to St. Augustine
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/colonial
New Orleans history
http://gatewayno.com/history/histroy.html
French fur trade
http://www.whiteoak.org/learning/timeline.htm
Spanish missions
http://missions.bgmm.com/
California missions online project
http://www.cuca.k12.ca.us/lessons/missions/missions.html
thinkquest - Spanish missions
http://library.thinkquest.org/3615/
Canada Fur Trade
http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/fp_furtrade/fp_furtrade2.html
Canada Fur Traders
http://www2.canadiana.ca/hbc/intro_e.html
Salem Mass historical homes
http://www.salemweb.com/guide/arch/houses.shtml
Kids' Life in English colonies - Pennsylvania
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/index.htm
watch short clips showing life back in the colonial days
http://www.libertyskids.com/nowthen/index.html
Homework helper - LOTS of information
Scroll down to find the colonies you're looking for
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/amhsthc.html#colam
Colonial Houses - Dutch, English, French, Spanish
http://www.takus.com/architecture/1colonial.html
Spanish in Florida
http://www.flheritage.com/KIDS/history.cfm#first
St. Augustine's fort - Castillo San Marcos
http://www.nps.gov/casa/index.htm
Quaker colony of Pennsylvania
Not real easy reading, but good info.
Can navigate to other colonies, too.
http://www.usahistory.info/colonies/Pennsylvania.html
A Colonial Family
Read about a real family in Connecticut; play a game
http://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/smartfun/colonial/intro/index.html
Dutch Colonies in America
Written for kids, lots of pictures ***
http://books.google.com/books?id=8J4rVbrJNUYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=dutch+colonies+in+america&source=bl&ots=nelCVhdC8W&sig=LxCH7k8PuJuJc6Q0JdkvYt1VFgw&hl=en&ei=hFs_TaTrOYS4sQPS_-HhBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
Pictures of Dutch New Amsterdam and archaeological digs
http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/rothschild/1.htm
Farming in Manhattan (New Amsterdam)
Not easy reading, but there's some good information
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/wic/wic02.htm
A virtual tour of New Netherland
http://www.nnp.org/vtour/index.html
Roger Williams and Providence (Rhode Island)
http://www.nps.gov/rowi/historyculture/index.htm
San Antonio Missions
http://www.nps.gov/saan/historyculture/history2.htm
New France
Fur trading posts established... be sure to click down the right side menu
and read at least 3 pages
http://www.linksnorth.com/canada-history/thefounding.html
short introduction to French Fur Trade,
then they talk about other fur trading groups
http://www.pcmaf.org/fur_trade.htm
Fur trading posts - not just French, but shows how they carried out everyday
life -CLICK on the "on-line learning" link and go to the "voyageur" link to
learn more about the life of a fur trapper.
http://www.whiteoak.org/learning/furpost.shtml
French Fur Trade in Wisconsin
Lots of information, not too hard to read, though not especially for kids
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/tp-007/
New Orleans as a French colony
http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/cabildo/cab3.htm
French settlement of Louisiana, written for a college course, but a good
reader can understand it. We're just interested up to 1763.
http://www.latech.edu/tech/liberal-arts/geography/courses/310/text/french.htm
Other Resources