Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, An Agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia
http://www.historyisfun.org/
This informative website includes information about the Jamestown center and museum, including maritime history, Native American history, a reconstructed fort, and the award-winning exhibition “The World of 1607.” It also includes a wide range of educational resources including short background essays, video clips, and classroom activities ranging from “Cultures at Jamestown,” “Life at Jamestown,” “Living with the Indians,” and “Voyage to Virginia.”
Historic Jamestowne
http://historicjamestowne.org/
Historic Jamestowne is the site of the first permanent English settlement in America. The site is jointly administered by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities and the National Park Service. It includes updates on project Jamestown Rediscovery, the archeological excavation of the original fort site under “The Dig,” as well an archive of past archeological reports and images. The “Education” section features a range of lesson plans and interactive exercises, as well as links to the National Geographic online exhibition, “America in 1607: Jamestown and the Powhatan”
(http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/jamestown/)
“Virtual Jamestown,” a digital research, teaching and learning project:
http://www.virtualjamestown.org/
The Virtual Jamestown Archive is a digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the Virginia experiment." As a work in progress, Virtual Jamestown aims to shape the national dialogue on the occasion of the four hundred-year anniversary observance in 2007 of the founding of the Jamestown colony. This site is still under construction, but will include a primary source and artifact database, and currently includes several good, short interpretive essays for background information.
“Discovering Jamestown,” An Electronic Classroom Adventure for Teachers and Students:
http://www.whro.org/jamestown2007/index.html
Part of the official Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation website, this online activity center features lesson plans, and image gallery, and educational videos. Lesson plans include role play exercises, geography lesson, Native American history analysis, and journal writing and interpretation.
Journey of Democracy, Jamestown 1607-2007: The Official Education Curriculum Website of America’s Four Hundredth Anniversary
http://www.jamestownjourney.com/Home.htm
The official education curriculum website of “America's 400th Anniversary,” this site marks the founding of the first permanent English settlement in America at Jamestown in Virginia in 1607. In 2006-2007, Americans and others around the globe will commemorate the 400th anniversary of a journey that began with the voyage to Jamestown, gave rise to a new nation, and changed the world. Includes teacher newsletters, K-12 teaching resources, and lesson plans.
“Secrets of the Dead: Case File, Death at Jamestown,” PBS Documentary
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_jamestown/about.html
This PBS documentary and its associated website takes a 21st-century look at the eerie fate of the men and boys who left London to establish the first permanent British colony in Jamestown, Virginia. Three years after they arrived, 440 of the original 500 settlers had died. Supply ships arrived from England carrying new colonists, yet the mortality rate continued to soar. While famine, internal strife, polluted water, and Indian attacks might certainly explain some of the fatalities, the death rate was still higher than it should have been under the circumstances. When the body of an original colonist turns up in the excavation of the Jamestown fort, archeologists and forensic experts find a clue that points to murder. Is it a coincidence that deadly outbreaks seemed to strike just after the supply ships headed home? Is it a coincidence, too, that the only map of the colony today belongs to Spain? And what could a fanatical Catholic have to do with the deaths? This documentary paints a new picture of the conditions in Jamestown, and implicates some very unlikely culprits.
Kalmar Nyckel, The Tall Ship of Delaware
http://www.kalmarnyckel.org/
The original Kalmar Nyckel sailed from Sweden to the New World in 1638 leaving its passengers to establish the first permanent European settlement in the Delaware Valley, the Colony of New Sweden in present-day Wilmington, Delaware. She made a total of four roundtrip crossings of the Atlantic—more than any other ship of the era. Her first voyage to the New World left 24 settlers of Swedish, Finnish, German and Dutch descent in the Delaware Valley. Joining them was a black freedman who sailed from the Caribbean aboard her companion ship the Fogel Grip. The current Kalmar Nyckel is a reconstructed sailing ship open to school groups with associated programming that explores maritime history and the founding of New Sweden in Delaware.
“Mapping Early America,” Colonial Williamsburg Online Exhibition
http://www.history.org/history/museums/online_exhibits.cfm
Explore colonial maps from Colonial Williamsburg's collection in an online exhibition that includes maps dated from 1587 to 1782. The online exhibition looks at maps relating to colonial discovery, exploration, boundary disputes, navigation, trade, the French and Indian War, and the Revolutionary War. The exhibition features a zooming tool allowing a close look at map details, a glossary of terms, and a timeline of major events in history that occurred near the date a particular map was drawn.
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