• Leadership in Jamestown
  Students will identify historical ideas about the New World and colonization and formulate ideas about leadership. They will also evaluate candidates for the leadership of Jamestown, debate their merits, and write persuasive arguments.
• Jobs in Jamestown
  Students will use census data to research occupations of colonial settlers and create graphs to answer questions about labor and economy in Jamestown.
• The Jamestown Newsletter
  Students will research questions about life in the colony and use ClarisWorks to create a newsletter about Jamestown.
• Jamestown's Economy
  Students will use photographs of material artifacts to study the economic relationships between Native Americans and colonists.
• Jamestown Fort
  Students will identify the location of the original Jamestown Fort and identify artifacts from archaeological explorations.
• Language and Runaway Slave Ads
  Students will examine and compare the language masters used to describe runaway slaves and runaway indentures.
• Planning an Escape
  Students will study runaway slave advertisements in order to determine the range of factors a slave had to consider before escaping.
• Runaway Indentured Servants
  Students will use runaway slave advertisements to compare masters' attitudes toward slaves and indentured servants.
• Who Got Away? Eighteenth-Century Runaway Slaves
  Students will read runaway slave advertisements, consider which slaves may have been best equipped, and speculate about who may have successfully gained freedom.
• State of Affairs Between the Native Americans and the European Settles
  Students will use online primary resources to examine relations between the Native Americans and the European settlers during the Age of Discovery.