Landing of the Pilgrims, by Michele Felice Cornè (1805)
{Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons}
Greetings! Today we continue looking at the early colonists but shift from Jamestown over to the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. There are SO many educational videos and websites about this topic, and we will share more next week, but we could never cover them all. We hope you get a chance to preview and enjoy a few of these supplemental suggestions with your kids this week:
VIDEOS:
This is America Charlie Brown- The Mayflower Voyagers – On Vimeo, the classic Peanuts re-telling of the voyage of the Mayflower!
“The Pilgrims” 1955 Encyclopedia Britannica Film – This 22 minute older educational film follows the Pilgrims from England to Holland and to New England. It discusses the Mayflower compact and the hardships in the New World:
Plymouth Colony and the Pilgrims – This is a 10 minute documentary about the Plymouth colonists:
The Pilgrims Journey Documentary – Here’s a longer documentary (52 minutes) telling the story of the Pilgrims:
What Was Life Like for Pilgrims in the Plymouth Colony? – From World Book, this quick video features a historian at Plimoth Plantation talking about the daily lives of Pilgrims:
Tour of Mayflower II – This ship is a full-scale reproduction of the tall ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth in 1620:
WEBSITES:
Voyage on the Mayflower – An interactive site from Scholastic. Learn what it was like to live and work on a 17th-century sailing vessel, and relive part of this epic journey.
Mayflower History – This site gives lots of information about the Mayflower, including a passenger list with info about each passenger, which is pretty interesting!
Mayflower Passenger Search – A word search puzzle you can print.
Thanksgiving Mazes and Word Search
Plimoth Plantation – This is the website of a living history museum in Plymouth, MA, with lots of great info about the Plymouth colony. This section has several online activities for kids, including coloring pages and Talk Like a Pilgrim.
Colonial House Interactive History – Here you’ll find a variety of activities to try.
Pilgrim Children Name Game – A matching game to help you learn some of the unusual names of the Pilgrim boys and girls.
Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620, by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, 1899
{Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons}
1 thought on “Monday Mix-ins: Plymouth Colony and Pilgrims, Part 1”
Thank you for gathering this information about the Mayflower and Plymouth Colony. I love history and have just found that I am a descendant so I am easger to learn more about the voyage, the people and the colony’s experience. I like your presentation.
As I learned more about religious history in seminary (master theological studies) than I was taught in public schools–giving me a different and broader picture of the true part of religion in history–, I believe that teachings about the first Americans are often not correctly presented. One British lady who presents is more accurate. Many points of view are too simplistic in explaining why people undertook a journey that was so terribly dangerous. Some say they were simply “liberal” and wanted freedom. That’s an incorrect explanation and actually helps cause people all the way up to judges and leaders today to misrepresentation freedom of religion in America.