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Grade 3 Social Studies · World 7: Colonial America · Level 51
Landowners, Farmers, and Artisans
Life for large landowners, small farm families, and artisans.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 51
- Colonial life was different for different people. Let's meet three of them.
- Large landowners owned huge farms, mostly in the South, worked by many servants and enslaved people. They lived in big houses and often helped make laws, like in Virginia's House of Burgesses, started in 1619.
- Most colonists were small farmers. The whole family worked. They grew their own food, and made their own candles, soap, and clothes.
- Artisans were skilled workers who made things by hand: blacksmiths made iron tools, coopers made barrels, silversmiths like Paul Revere made silver cups, and cobblers made shoes.
- To become an artisan, a young person worked for years as an apprentice, learning the trade from a master.
Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:
- SS3H3.c — Describe colonial life in America from the perspectives of various people: large landowners, farmers, artisans, women, children, indentured servants, slaves, and American Indians.