Description: This is the internet’s most comprehensive exhibit on colonial industry and trades. Learn about being a blacksmith, silversmith, gunsmith, hatter, wheelwright, printer, milliner, and much more.

Description: This interactive activity allows students to use the interactive 13 Colonies Artisans and Trades exhibit to find the answers to the scavenger hunt questions.

Description: This scavenger hunt is designed for use with the 13 Colonies Artisans and Trades interactive exhibit and map.

Description: In this creative digital activity, students step into the year 1693, just after the Salem Witch Trials. Their task is to design a colorful “Welcome to Salem” billboard using a fully interactive online tool. Students can edit text, choose from spooky colonial fonts, use a fill tool to change the background, and decorate their sign with witch-themed stamps—including multiple kinds of witches, brooms, potions, and more. They can also generate a humorous, witchy slogan to spark ideas or write their own. When finished, students can save their design or print their completed billboard as a final product. This activity blends history, creativity, and technology to help students imagine what a 17th-century welcome sign might have looked like—with a fun twist!

Description: How well do you know colonial artisans? This activity requires students to match the artisan with their job description.

Description: This is a simple word search. Students must find 13 colonies artisans such as blacksmith, silversmith, hatter, milliner, and others.

Description: This video describes Benjamin Franklin's colonial printing enterprise

Description: This innovative activity requires students to correct the flawed spelling, grammar, and punctuation. The online versions show the numbers and types of errors. As students check their answers, they can see how many of each type of error still need to be corrected.

Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. You can also print out detailed results. PASSAGE LENGTH: 198 Words; LEXILE: 910

Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 198 Words; LEXILE: 910

Description: This fun online activity requires students to re-arrange the words and punctuation to form a coherent sentence about life as a colonial blacksmith. There are three total sentences. immediate feedback is given.

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph. This exercise gives immediate feedback

Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about 13 Colonies Trades that has nine factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.

Description: This interactive activity allows students to use the interactive 13 Colonies Artisans and Trades exhibit to determine if each statement is fact or fiction.