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

[Judy Markland]

The Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association in Deerfield has extensive 
online resources including a section on African Americans in Early Rural 
New England that includes a section for teachers, documents, etc. 
http://www.memorialhall.mass.edu/afram/index.html

Judy Markland

Whately Historical Commission

On 8/28/2020 4:50 PM, rcsmitharch at verizon.net wrote:
>
> Peabody Essex Museum is a great resource for information on maritime 
> commerce, and particularly trade with China and southeast Asia.  
> Another good source would be the Royall House and Slave Quarters in 
> Medford, MA.  They have a new director who is focused on telling the 
> slaves’ story.
>
> https://royallhouse.org
>
> There was an article in the Boston Globe a couple of weeks ago: 
> https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/08/metro/60-enslaved-people-once-toiled-rich-landowner-medford-kyera-singleton-wants-you-know-who-they-were/.
>
> Richard Smith
>
> Swampscott Historical Commission
>
> *From:* MassHistPres <masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu> *On Behalf Of *Jeff
> *Sent:* Friday, August 28, 2020 11:43 AM
> *To:* masshistpres at cs.umb.edu
> *Subject:* [MassHistPres] Educational (elementary) resources for new 
> Social Studies standards?
>
> 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.*
>
> a.*the fishing and shipbuilding industries*
>
> b.*trans-Atlantic and Caribbean trade, especially the Triangular Trade 
> that includedAfricans 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*
>
> c.*the development of seaport cities of New Bedford, Newburyport, 
> Gloucester, Salem, and Boston *
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> MassHistPres mailing list
> MassHistPres at cs.umb.edu
> http://mailman.cs.umb.edu/listinfo/masshistpres


-- 
This email has been checked for viruses by AVG.
https://www.avg.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.cs.umb.edu/pipermail/masshistpres/attachments/20200828/de8115d2/attachment-0001.html>