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New Netherland

Lessons and Classroom Activities

  • Grade 4: The New World through Dutch Eyes and Daily Life in New Netherland (zipped PDF files, 14.8 MB). These guides are designed to help educators both use primary source documents in the classroom and teach the "Three Worlds Meet" and "Colonial and Revolutionary Periods" learning standards.
  • Grade 7: From the Old World to the New (zipped PDF files, 3.6 MB) and People in New Netherland (zipped PDF files, 8.2 MB). These guides are designed to help educators both use primary source documents in the classroom and teach the "European Exploration and Settlement" and "Life in Colonial Communities" learning standards.

Publication

New Netherland in a Nutshell by Firth Fabend.