Jamestown Online

Jamestown Online

Colony Name: ______

Jamestown Online

Use the website provided to complete this sheet. You will make at leastthree attempts today in class. Try to make the best decisions possible in order to survive. Make sure to listen to the advice of other colonists, natives, and your charter.

Website:

Attempt Number One: (For this attempt, use the decisions from yesterday’s class)

1. Results:

Food rating:

Health rating:

Wealth rating:

Morale rating:

Attempt Number Two:

  1. Where did you want your land?
  2. How did you interact with the Native Americans?
  3. What kind of structure did you build?
  4. Which colonists will work?
  5. What jobs will the colonists do?
  6. What crops will you grow?

7. Results:

Food rating:

Health rating:

Wealth rating:

Morale rating:

Attempt Number Three:

  1. Where did you want your land?
  2. How did you interact with the Native Americans?
  3. What kind of structure did you build?
  4. Which colonists will work?
  5. What jobs will the colonists do?
  6. What crops will you grow?

7. Results:

Food rating:

Health rating:

Wealth rating:

Morale rating:

Now that you have done this three times or more….

What choices seem to give you the best rating?

  1. Where did you want your land?
  2. How did you interact with the Native Americans?
  3. What kind of structure did you build?
  4. Which colonists will work?
  5. What jobs will the colonists do?
  6. What crops will you grow?

What choices seem to give you the worst rating?

  1. Where did you want your land?
  2. How did you interact with the Native Americans?
  3. What kind of structure did you build?
  4. Which colonists will work?
  5. What jobs will the colonists do?
  6. What crops will you grow?

Conclusion

Questions: Use the “Now We Know” section to answer the following questions. You do not have to write in complete sentences.

  1. Where did the Jamestown colonists choose to settle? Why did they choose this location? Why was this a bad location to choose?
  1. Describe the relationship between the Native Americans and the Jamestown colonists.
  1. What type of shelter did the colonists at Jamestown build?
  1. What were the two social classes in Jamestown?
  1. What was being neglected in Jamestown that caused starvation?
  1. What did most people in Jamestown spend their time doing? Why did they do this? What were the consequences of doing this?
  1. What was “the starving time”?
  1. What crop “saved” Jamestown?