Pilgrim & Wampanoag Inquiry

We have been researching the history of Thanksgiving.  We have been receiving letters from a Pilgrim girl and a Wampanoag boy each week.  You can see these letters by clicking here or on the picture below.

Everyone who travels on a far journey is considered a "pilgrim."  

We learned about the voyage on the Mayflower through books and virtual tours (click here or on the image below).

We looked closely at the cutaway of the Mayflower ship for clues...

...and tried to match up what we saw with this great interactive Mayflower ship tour by clicking here or on the image below.

We also investigated the layout of the Wampanoag homesite.

We used plimoth.org to view Wampanoag homesites (click here or on the image below to check it out).

We took a virtual field trip on our Google Earth app to visit the Plimoth Plantation and see the Wampanoag homesite as well as the Pilgrim village.

We were able to see a lot of the scenery by enabling the "panoramio" photos within Google Earth.

For this these great resources, click on the links below.  Enjoy!

Scholastic First Thanksgiving resources

Plimoth Plantation resources