UEN standard: 5th grade social studies, Standard 1, Objective 1

I'm not really sure why I chose to do the colonization of America. It's something I've always been interested in, probably since I was Squanto in my fourth grade wax museum project. I think I was also inspired by the tour I watched on the Revolutionary War and wanted to go a little further back and more in depth about the 13 colonies and how they originated. Once I started reading more about it and thinking of the activities I could do, I realized how fun GoogleEarth would make this unit. The most interesting parts of history for me were always reading actual stories about the people and looking at pictures and really getting to imagine what it was like back then. GoogleEarth is a great way for students to really step into another place and literally see what the early settlers saw as they sailed into America for the first time.