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🗺️ 5th Grade · Social StudiesD2.His.2.3-5Unit 3: The thirteen colonies

Colonial life

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🎯 Objective: Students describe daily life and jobs in the colonies.

Lesson outline

  1. Primary sources.
  2. Role play.
  3. Write.
  4. Exit: one job.

Lesson 3 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

D2.His.2.3-5

C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards (NCSS) — typical US grade-level themes

🏁 Unit goals

  • Compare New England, Middle and Southern colonies
  • Describe colonial life, including slavery

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

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More lessons in “The thirteen colonies”

  1. Jamestown and Plymouth
  2. Three colonial regions
  3. Colonial life
  4. Slavery in the colonies

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