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Teaching Resources for Your Classroom

Colonial Williamsburg offers a variety of quality instructional materials to help you teach students about life in early America, including the following:


Stories Under African SkiesSTORIES UNDER AFRICAN SKIES
Stories in the African American Tradition

Stories and music were essential to African culture and to the African American culture forcibly transplanted into the New World. This recording, with a special narration by "Roots" author Alex Haley, brings together the stories of these uprooted Africans and some of their music. CD. $17.95. To order, call 1-800-761-8331 or e-mail eftsupport@cwf.org.


From Ear to EarFROM EAR TO EAR
The Passage of African Music through American Slavery

Powerful and distinctive, improvisational and intricate. The music of Africa calls forth the spirits of the ancestors who greeted the birth of a child and the fruits of the harvest with song. In all things African, there is music. It is the essence of life from the secular to the sacred. This stirring CD developed by The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation re-creates the lost and forgotten music performed by Africans in the 18th century, following the transformation of their unique music as they moved in forced bondage from Africa to the Caribbean and finally to America. Enhannced CD. $17.95. To order, call 1-800-761-8331 or e-mail eftsupport@cwf.org.


Hands-On History: Slave's BagHANDS ON HISTORY: SLAVE'S BAG
Hands on History Object Kit

Slaves often carried their personal belongings in a bag or basket. This simple drawstring fabric bag contains a bill of sale, an oyster shell, flint and steel, a wooden spoon, a pewter button, a piece of chain, a feather quill, and a pair of stockings. Each kit contains artifacts, a Discovery Worksheet, annotated artifact inventory, glossary, graphic organizers, primary sources, and illustrations (Grades 3–8), $75.00. To order, call 1-800-761-8331 or e-mail eftsupport@cwf.org.


Slavery: A Colonial OdysseySLAVERY: A COLONIAL ODYSSEY
Lesson Units: Educating America's Citizens

Explore slavery's pervasive influence on the new American nation. This unit includes lessons on the slave trade, slavery, and the slave economy, life as a slave, slave culture and traditions, and slave codes, and includes the book Slavery in the Colonial Chesapeake by David Brion Davis. 144 pages. (Grades 5–12), $34.95. To order, call 1-800-761-8331 or e-mail eftsupport@cwf.org.