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TOWN HALL!
Unit: Early American Communities Page 1 of 3
Teacher Prep: Cut along the dotted lines
8 Cards
Card 1 🪵
What is a colonial settlement?
A) A high-speed digital train station
B) A new place built by people from another country
C) An underwater amusement park
Card 2 📜
How did a student use a hornbook?
A) To make bread in the fireplace
B) To hold and read alphabet letters in school
C) To blow through like a loud trumpet
Card 3 🔨
What is a colonial apprentice?
A) A young student learning a job from a master
B) A shopkeeper who sold imported toys
C) A sea captain sailing back to England
Card 4 🤝
What does it mean to cooperate?
A) To let one person do all the schoolwork
B) To work together with others to get a big job done
C) To live quietly alone in the wilderness
Card 5 🔥
What did a colonial blacksmith make?
A) Beautiful clothing and wool blankets
B) Metal items like iron nails, hooks, and horseshoes
C) Wooden plates, spoons, and desks
Card 6 🛢️
What did a cooper make?
A) Leather shoes and winter boots
B) Wooden barrels to store dry food and fresh water
C) Heavy iron axes and plows
Card 7 🏡
Why did neighbors raise a barn together?
A) Because log walls are too heavy for one family
B) Because they wanted to paint it pink
C) Because they wanted to hold a race inside
Card 8 💧
Where did colonists get water?
A) Opening a plastic water bottle
B) Digging a deep well or carrying water from a stream
C) Calling an emergency delivery service
Cooperative Learning • Grade 3 History Page 2 of 3
Scaffolds and sentence frames for active gameplay
ELL Tool
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Settlement A new town built in a new country.
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Hornbook Wooden paddle used for reading alphabet letters.
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Apprentice A student helper learning a job from a master.
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Cooperate Working together to do big physical work.
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Taking Turns
"It is your turn! Roll the die." • "I moved _____ steps!"
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Reading the Card
"I will read the question..." • "Can you help me say this word?"
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Answering & Cooperating
"I think the answer is _____ because..." • "I agree!" • "Let's check the picture clues!"
As a team, write one sentence together about how you cooperated while playing this game today!
We cooperated today by __________________________________________________________________
Unit: Early American Communities Page 3 of 3