Introduction

The Colonial Antique Road Show is coming to C.C.I.S.  Our class will recreate an episode similar to the television program "Antique Road Show".  Your team will choose an area of interest from colonial times.  You will research historical information pertaining to your artifact.  Your findings will be presented to the class in a format similar to the television show, "The Antique Roadshow".  So, use your imagination while searching your attic and basement for your "valuables"!  Time to hit the road to Colonial Times!

Videos at C.C.I.S.:

Schlessinger Video Reproductions:  1.  Jamestown
                                                    2.  Early Settlers
                                                    3.  Plimoth Plantation

Books at C.C.I.S.:

Howarth, Sarah, Colonial People
Gunby, Lise, Early Farm Life
Greenwood, Barbara, A Pioneer Sampler
Wilmore, Kathy, A Day in the Life of a Colonial Silversmith
                     A Day in the Life of a Colonial Innkeeper
                     A Day in the Life of a Colonial Printer
                     A Day in the Life of a Colonial Wigmaker
                     A Day in the Life of a Colonial Schoolteacher
                     A Day in the Life of a Colonial Blacksmith
Kalman, Bobbie, Colonial Crafts
                     Colonial Life
                     Early Artisans
                     Early Christmas
                     Early City Life
                     Early Family Home
                     Early Health and Medicine
                     Early Pleasures and Pastimes
                     Early Settler Children
                     Early Settler Storybook
                     Early Stores and Markets
                     Early Travel
                     Early Village Life
                     Food for the Settler
                     The Gristmill
                     The Kitchen
                     Home Crafts
                     Visiting a Village
                     A One Room School
                     Nineteenth Century Girls and Women
                     Tools and Gadgets
   Knight, James, Boston Tea Party
                      The Farm
                      The Village
                      Salem Days, Life in a Colonial Seaport
                      Jamestown
                      Sailing to America
                      Blue Feather's Vision

Websites:

THE HISTORY PLACE

www.historyplace.com/index.html
This is a great place to start your background research. Here is a  timeline containing a short description of yearly events from early colonial times through the American Revolutionary War. There are pictures that can be enlarged as well as additional links to specific events, people, and social happenings.

 COLONIAL LIFE - 1585-1783

www.yahooligans.com/Around_the_World/Countries/United_States/History
Links, links...who needs a link? This site is full of information for any type of colonial activity you want. It offers songs, poems, maps, games, craft ideas and many more.

 EXPERIENCE COLONIAL LIFE

www.history.org/life/life.htm
Check here for links to many aspects of colonial life. Areas listed: African-American Experience, Animals, Christmas, Clothing, Family, Food, Gardening (daily living), Manners, Military Life, Politics, Religion, Tools (daily living), Trades (careers).

 COLONIAL AMERICAN HISTORY RESOURCES

www.bham.wednet.edu/colonial.htm
An exciting site that contains links to many early colonial topics. Learn about historical figures, read historical documents and archives, analyze rare maps, experience daily living skills and religion.

 UNITED STATES HISTORY-1600-1775, Colonial Period

falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/colonial.htm
Great site for Colonial information and links to History, Military History, Maps, Cooking, Everyday Life, Plantations and other Historic Sites, Holidays, Jamestown, Music and Dance, Art, Jewish History.

 18TH CENTURY DAILY LIFE

history1700s.about.com/homework/history1700s/msubmenu20.htm
Are you interested in finding out more about Colonial daily life? This site offers information on Domestic Living, including links to family life, cooking, soap making, utensils, etc. Pictures accompany most of the links to help you visualize your topic. Other links give brief descriptions on Fashion (clothing, shoes, hats, wigs), General Information (etiquette, manners), Holiday Celebrations, Literature, 18th Century Medicine.

 SMART FUN ON LINE

www.hfmgv.org/smartfun/
Get ready for some fun! This site offers you a visual trip in a game format as you travel through time to a Colonial Family and Community or experience Living Under Enslavement.

 AMUSEMENTS IN COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND

www.ctstateu.edu/noahweb/amusements.html
Is it play time yet? This site gives you information on a child's daily life as well as games to make and play.

 THE ART OF CREATION

www.pioneerthinking.com/crafts.html
If you have ever wondered how to make paper, candles, potpourri like early colonists, this is the site for you!

 FLAG PICTURE GALLERY

www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagpics.html
Check this site out to see the many different flag designs flying during colonial times and learn what they represent.

 COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG CLASSROOM PROJECTS

www.history.org
Make sure you visit this unique colonial site. Learn about early medicinal home remedies, how to make a mob cap, predict weather with a weathervane, create shop signs, and read run-away slave ads from the Virginia Gazette Newspaper.

 RESCUED COLONIAL ARTIFACTS DISPLAYED

www.bergen.com/region/dig26199902267.htm
This exciting newspaper article describes the discovery of 20,000 colonial artifacts in 1999 in New Jersey. Slave shackles, seashells used as charms by slaves, toothbrush, buttons and even a container of grain were found on this site.

 A COLONIAL EXHIBIT

 www.fbchristianacademy.org/colonialartifacts.htm
 Experience this brief picture exhibit of colonial artifacts.

 COLONIAL AND EARLY AMERICA ARTIFACTS

 www.7cs.com/colonial/
 Look, but don't buy as you visit this colonial store. It includes early print documents, autographs, newspapers, currency and coinage, relics such as bottles from colonial life.

1. Begin by viewing the television program "Antique Road Show". Note the different roles of the people discussing each antique.  The person who owns the item tells about its history within his/her family.  The appraiser then describes the historical happenings during the particular time when the item would have been created.
2. Next, you will be assigned to a team of 2 or 3 students.
3. Your team will need to browse through the available library books and web sites and select an artifact that interests you.
4. Print the Graphic Organizer titled "Colonial Artifact Graphic Organizer".  This worksheet will help you organize your information for your different roles.
5. Research your artifact for its possible location, time period, and historic background.  Remember you will use your information to create a dialogue between the owner and the appraiser.
6. Factual information must be incorporated into the story.
7. Your team will create a replica of the chosen artifact.  You may find an item in your home which you can adapt for your artifact.  Be sure to check out the websites for directions to reproduce some colonial artifacts.
8. A three to five minute presentation is required by each team.  Each member will assume either the role of "artifact owner" or "appraiser".  Your research information on your artifact must be incorporated into your dialogue.

Your performation will be evaluated on an individual as well as a group basis.
Each team member will complete the "Individual Participation Rubric".  In addition, the team will evaluated on their oral presentation.  To view the specific grading criteria, click "Oral Presentation Rubric".