Karalynn

Plimoth Plantation is a great resource about the Pilgrims, Wampanoags, and the first Thanksgiving. The organization has built a full-scale replica of the Mayflower that you can explore if you visit as well as a 17th century English Village and Wampanoag Homesite. Their website offers multiple resources on these subjects. They also have virtual field trips for use in the classroom that you can find on Scholastic's website. On the Scholastic website you can also find fictional letters that are written to represent that time. The letters are from young children so that students can make connections to the topics and they provide both perspectives, Pilgrim and Wampanoag. These sites are appropriate for all grade levels and Scholastic provides Common Core aligned lessons for various grade levels on their site.

http://www.plimoth.org/ http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/webcast.htm