Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Visualizing Colonial Virginia

Do you believe in the skill of visualizing?  I truely believe that most kids need to draw pictures to commit information to memory.  So the other day, we took some time to draw different pictures to depict Colonial Virginia in the 1700's.  Enjoy!
Examples of architecture:  churches

Clothing Styles for the Plantation Ladies

Architecture:  Barns

Clothing Styles for the Plantation owners

Food was made from natural resources found locally.

The Germans and Scots-Irish migrated from Pennsylvania to the Shenandoah Valley.

Tobacco growing in Virginia...

Native Americans were being forced to move inland as more and more Europeans came to Virginia.

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