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Step Onto the Rock
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Web Resources for Educators by Midge Frazel


The Life of Plymouth Rock
Timeline Activity
Create a timeline of the life of Plymouth Rock.
Click on the image above, print that page and return here.
Use the information on that photograph, the dates and events in Jean Fritz's book
and this Web site to create your timeline.
Locate the places Plymouth Rock moved to on this currrent day map.
[in Adobe Reader format]
Example rubric for timeline activities
Class Discussion: People often took pieces of the rock as souvenirs.
Does your class think this was destruction of public property?
Has there been any destruction of public property in your school or community?
Class Investigation: Look for memorials or monuments in your community.
Who were the people or events memorialized?
How humble or impressive are the monuments?
Create a concept map with images of these monuments
What's Wrong with this Picture?
Media Literacy Activity
Analyze and discuss the impact of historical paintings on factual history
Sargent's: The Landing of the Pilgrims
Bacon's: The Landing of the Pilgrims
Anonymous: The Landing of the Pilgrims
Burbank's: The Landing of the Pilgrims
Corne's: The Landing of the Pilgrims
Beyond the Rock...
Painted Pilgrims
curriculum unit for grades 6-12
from Pilgrim Hall Museum
Are We Thankful?
Survival in the Past
Natural Disasters Hit New Plymouth
Sickness, Fire, Drought, Locusts, Hurricane, and Earthquake
The Winter of 1620-1621
Who Says?
life was different back then...
Talk Like a Pilgrim
Common Myths
Be Thankful for Family
Massachusetts Mayflower Society
What do you notice about the list of Persons to be descended from?
Read about the process of proving your lineage.
Images of John Alden and Pricilla Mullins
Biography of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins
Life as a Plimoth Pilgrim
Love and Legend
The Courtship of Myles Standish
Fiction: The Courtship of Myles Standish
Take a virtual (slide show) tour of the Mayflower Society's House Museum
Print an Ancestral Chart
...start your own research
Thank You
write about things to be thankful for...
"Thank You" in Many Languages

Additional Resources
That's Plymouth Rock? Web Presentation

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Pilgrims on Rock
Discovery School's Clip Art Gallery
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180 Years in the Life of the Rock
photograph taken of sign
at Plymouth Rock by author