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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Work in Colonial America: Blacksmithing
In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.16
A reenactor demonstrates the work of a colonial blacksmith and explains his role in the community.
Format: video
Colonial cooking and foodways
In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.15
A reenactor demonstrates cooking over an open fire.
Format: video
Broadside listing supplies for colonists, 1622
Broadside listing supplies for colonists, 1622
This document from 1622 lists recommended supplies that colonists from England should take with them to the Virginia colony.
Format: image/document
We have a story to tell: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region
Readings and lesson plans exploring the historical and ongoing challenges faced by the American Indians of the Chesapeake Bay region, since the time of their first contact with Europeans in the early 1600s.
Format: series (multiple pages)
Colonial man and woman
Colonial man and woman
At the Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Massachusetts, historical reenactors sit in a wooden house.
Format: image/photograph
Colonial woman and cow
Colonial woman and cow
At the Plimouth Plantation in Plymouth, Massachusetts, a woman in colonial dress leads a cow by a rope.
Format: image/photograph
Slaves working in 17th-century Virginia
Slaves working in 17th-century Virginia
Format: image/painting
Colonial couple statue
Colonial couple statue
A statue of a colonial-era couple stands in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Format: image/photograph
Cooking on an open fire
A reenactor demonstrates eighteenth-century methods of cooking and talks about colonial foods and foodways.
Format: video/video
Colonial woman and children
Colonial woman and children
At a reenactment of the American Revolution at Minuteman National Park in Lexington/Concord, Massachusetts, a woman and two children walk hand-in-hand in colonial dress.
Format: image/photograph
Writing with a quill pen
A reenactor demonstrates how American colonists wrote, using dip pens and ink.
Format: video/video
Alamance Battleground - Blacksmith
A reenactor demonstrates and explains the work of a colonial blacksmith and his role in the community.
Format: video/video
Toys and play in eighteenth-century America
Reenactors demonstrate some common children's toys and games from colonial America.
Format: video/video
Colonial North America
Colonial North America
Format: image/map
Gardens at Tryon Palace
Gardens at Tryon Palace
Format: image/photograph
Tryon Palace
Tryon Palace
Format: image/photograph
Legacies of colonial rule
In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 2
The tan and white building is two stories high with a central clock tower, sculpted cornices, and two red-tiled Mansard roof towers. Built by the French colonial government in the early 1900s, the ornate building is still used as a city hall but now it is...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Cannon at Alamance Battleground
Cannon at Alamance Battleground
A cannon sits in the grass at Alamance Battleground Historic Site in North Carolina, illustrating the kinds of weapons used during the 1764–1771 uprising of the Regulators against the colonial government in the state.
Format: image/photograph
Probate inventory of Darby O'Brian, 1725
In Colonial North Carolina, page 7.4
Probate inventory of a middle-class man from colonial North Carolina. Includes explanations and photographs of items listed.
Format: inventory
North Carolina counties, 1760
North Carolina counties, 1760
Format: image/map