[MassHistPres] Educational (elementary) resources for new Social Studies standards?

[Jeff]

Hello,


I am a teacher (with a background in archaeology & history) in Sudbury, and
we are updating our curriculum to address the new Social Studies standards.
In grade 3, we have two standards (below) for which it's been challenging
to find appropriate materials to teach at an age-appropriate level. It
would be ideal if we could find and use primary sources to illustrate them
and make them come to life, but I am happy to learn about curricula from MA
that already address these standards.


I would appreciate any leads here (although I'm not sure this is the
appropriate email list for this subject matter).


Thanks in advance!

Jeff Kotkin


*5.4 Explain that in the 17th and 18th-century slavery was legal in all the
French, Dutch, and Spanish, and English colonies, including Massachusetts
and that colonial Massachusetts, had both free and enslaved Africans in its
population. *

*5.5 Explain the importance of maritime commerce and the practice of
bartering – exchanging goods or services without payment in money—in the
development of the economy of colonial Massachusetts, using materials from
historical societies and history museums as reference materials. *

   1.

   *the fishing and shipbuilding industries*
   2.

   *trans-Atlantic and Caribbean trade, especially the Triangular Trade
   that included Africans to be sold as slaves in the colonies and goods such
   as sugar and cotton produced by slave labor to be sold in the colonies and
   in Europe *
   3.

   *the development of seaport cities of New Bedford, Newburyport,
   Gloucester, Salem, and Boston *
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