CHICOPEE
AMERICAN PROMISES
SELSER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Participating Grade 5 Teachers
Mike Dean, Gerry Lablond, Janice Ciecko

March 3, 2006 History to go kits

The Tea Tax Tempest

Through this kit students can examine the colonists’ reaction to taxes imposed upon the colonies by Great Britain prior to the Revolutionary War, learn what was imported and exported to and from the colonies, learn the value of the American tea ceremony, and “take tea” in the classroom. Lessons include figuring tax amounts, creating political cartoons or poems, holding a debate and dividing reproduction items into piles of imports and exports. Kit items include a tea set large enough for a class of 24 to “take tea”, and reproductions of samples of imports and exports.

Pilgrim History Kit

This is a collection of models, maps, artifacts, primary sources, children’s literature, and teacher resource guides. A hand-crafted 17^th C. model house, quill pen and inkwell, and table top ninepins are just a few of the manipulatives that transport students to an earlier era in American history. Topics include foodways, play, dress, and Native life.