New England

Towns, fishing, lumber, shipbuilding, Puritan religion, and town schools.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 47

Let's visit New England: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Most people lived in small towns.
In the center of town stood the meeting house, next to a grassy town green. People went to church there, and held town meetings to vote on their town's problems.
Religion: most New Englanders were Puritans, who had come to worship in their own way. Church was the center of town life.
Education: Puritans wanted everyone to read the Bible. A 1647 law in Massachusetts made bigger towns hire a teacher, so New England had the first public schools. Harvard College opened in 1636.
Economy: the soil was rocky and the winters long, so farms were small. People fished for cod, hunted whales, cut lumber, and built ships. Boston became a busy port.

Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:

SS3H3.b — Compare and contrast colonial life in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies (education, economy, and religion).
SS3G3.c — Explain how the physical geography of the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies helped determine economic activities.