13 Colonies Sub Plan (No Prep): Read a Colonial Port Town Map, Grades 5-8

Students visit Thornquay Harbor, a made-up colonial-era harbor town with a wharf, warehouses, a meetinghouse, a common, a mill on a stream and a market. They use a lettered and numbered grid and compass directions to answer 6 map questions, trace a cart carrying crates of cloth from the wharf to the market (squares, streets and directions), explain the town's site and situation in 3 questions, and write a 5-sentence letter to a friend about the town.

What's inside

• Sub Plan, 2 pages
• Student Packet, 2 pages
• Answer Key, 1 page, with a suggested 30-point grading guide
• 6 files in all. Print only: no slides, no tech, no atlas, no scissors.

Answer key included

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