Colonial Life
Question and Answer Page
Fox Mill Elementary School


            You are a colonial person.
            Answer the following questions on the Student Worksheet.  Don't forget,
            you may have to scroll down the page to find the answer.
            As always, read carefully.
            Print the student worksheet .
 
1.  When you get dressed in the morning, what will you wear?
      http://www-cchs.ccsd.k12.wy.us/cchs_web/jiliff/Colonial/clothes/clothing.html
      http://www.scasd.k12.pa.us/Developers/lmj12/Field%20Trips/Fort%20Roberdeau/colonial_dress.html
 
 

2.  What will you eat?
      http://www.cowboykisses.com/articles/colonial1.html
 
 

3.  What will you do for fun?
      http://www.cesa10.k12.wi.us/Investigate-America/colonial/Families/Recreation/games.htm
 
 

4.  As a colonial child, how will you celebrate holidays?
      http://www.cesa10.k12.wi.us/Investigate-America/colonial/Holidays/index.htm
 
 

5.  Will you get an education?
      http://library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/school.htm
      http://www.stratfordhall.org/ed-boysgirls.htm
 

      A colonial math lesson:
      http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/TM/WS_colonial_arithmetic.shtml

      Read from the pages of a New England Primer
      http://www.gettysburg.edu/~tshannon/his341/nep1805contents.html
 

6.  What jobs might you have helped with?
      http://library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/daily_life.htm
 

7.  Name 4 colonial trades? 
      http://hastings.ci.lexington.ma.us/Colonial/Life/Life.html
 
 

8.  As you get into your teen years, you might become an apprentice. 
     What does that mean?
      http://hastings.ci.lexington.ma.us/Colonial/Life/Occupations/Apprentice.html
      http://library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/daily_life.htm
      http://nt.winterthur.org/introduction.asp
 
 

9.  What was an indentured servant?
      http://osage.voorhees.k12.nj.us/FOURTH/LARSEN/JKIDS/COLONYS.HTM
 
 
 

10. How do you get from place to place?
      http://library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/transportation.htm
 

Review the information at this source when you are done answering the questions.
 Daily Life in the Colonies
 
 

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