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PBS Video Lesson Plans on Colonial America

NC Live has a collection of videos from PBS that K-12 public schools teachers in North Carolina can show to their classrooms. This guide pairs PBS videos with lesson plans for teachers created by PBS.

Research guide for Colonial America lesson plans with corresponding PBS videos

PBS video

The Pilgrims: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

"Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims' journey west across the Atlantic in the early 17th century is a seminal, if often misunderstood, episode of American and world history. The Pilgrims explores the forces, circumstances, personalities and events that converged to exile the English group in Holland and eventually propel their crossing to the New World; a story universally familiar in broad outline, but almost entirely unfamiliar to a general audience in its rich and compelling historical actuality." -- Product Description