Lesson 3 Jamestown Today
A Step Back in Time
Jamestown Settlement is a living history museum. A living history museum takes you back in time. At a living history museum the people dress, talk, and do things just as they did long ago. A living history museum, like Jamestown Settlement, shows how the English colonists and the Powhatan lived in Jamestown in 1600's.
English Village
| Use carefully recreated artifacts to make it seem real/ like the past |
| English houses were made of plaster and grass. |
| Clothes made of wool and cotton. |
| Ships instruments made of iron and metal. |
| Three ships; Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery in harbor |
| Colonists animals; pigs, chickens, goats |
Powhatan Village
| grinding corn |
| cooking meals |
| making ropes |
| homes made with wood frames covered with grass (round in shape) |
Learning History
| The lives of the colonists and Powhatans very different from each other. |
| The lives of the colonists and Powhatans very similar in that both needed homes, cloths, food, and both took care of their communities. |