Pilgrim Project

Pilgrim or Indian Activity

View the Financial Foundations For Kids Online Story/Activity on Producing Producers and/or Getting Goods and Services. (If this is not available, help students to understand these concepts through another source)

Ask students how they think the first Pilgrims became producers and started trading goods and services.
Did they have to make rules? What happened if they did not follow rules?

Read “the Pilgrims of Plymouth” written and illustrated by Martha Sewall. This can also be viewed as a movie on your Promethean board on United Video Streaming.

Using a Venn-Diagram, compare and contrast jobs of today vs. the jobs from the story.

In Microsoft Word, projected onto a screen so that students can participate, type facts that students come up with about different jobs that the Pilgrims had according to the book, “The Pilgrims of Plymouth”. Put one fact per page at the bottom of each page. Make sure your page is in landscape. (use your own font choices here). Try to get enough pages so that each student has one. You may go into Goods and Services, Producers, etc. for facts and Pilgrims.
Ex: The Pilgrims were Producers because they made their own corn.
Ex: The Pilgrims left England because they didn’t like the laws that England had. They made their own laws in America.
Print the pages.
Take a digital picture of each student (full body, portrait).
Print each student’s picture at 81/2 X 11” size (to save ink, you can crop them in Microsoft Paint first and then add to Publisher or Word (in landscape). You can fit 2 or 3 on a page possibly that way).
Have students cut out their paper doll as closely as they can, but don’t worry about getting too close!
Use a black sharpie pen to color the clothes black.
Use white construction paper to cut out collars, aprons and girl’s bonnets. Use black and yellow construction paper to cut out pilgrim hats and belts for the boys and buckles.
Let each student draw the background of their picture that goes with their fact onto the printed fact paper.
They will then glue their pilgrim onto the paper.
Draw any props in their hands.
Scan each page onto the color Xerox machine. Make sure you choose color and change each to a jpeg.
Insert the pictures into Powerpoint or Moviemaker. Have kids record their fact for each slide.
Share the movie with another class!

K-1 Kansas Social Studies Standards taught through this lesson:
Kansas, United States, and World History
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas, events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and research skills.

Civics-Government
Civics-GovernmentStandard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active participants in our representative democracy.

Economics
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United States living in an interdependent world.