At the bottom of the page are three blanks in a section titled Map Skills:  Finding Distances. 
   Show students how to mark the edge of a piece of paper or index card to match the scale.  Once marked, the paper or card can be lined up with two points on the map to measure the straight line distance.  Allow some variation, but the measured distance should be fairly close to these:

From Jamestown to Richmond:  47 miles.
From Plymouth to Boston:  40 miles.
From Providence to New Haven:  93 miles.

Wooden buckets and a wooden butter churn for making butter from milk.  Butter kept longer than milk without spoiling.

An early advertising image promoting tobacco from Virginia.  Tobacco was the product that saved the colony financially and made it the wealthiest of the colonies in the Colonial era.

   Students should work from the finished map shown on the Internet support site or from our overhead transparency map collection.  Emphasize neatness from the beginning! 

   Ask students to notice the famous early settlements on the map.  Have them add the dates using a #2 pencil.  (Remember, color pencils are not good for small lettering.) 
   Next, have students color the rivers (shown with dotted lines) using a blue color pencil.  Label each with a #2 pencil.  Remind students of the importance of rivers in the pattern of settlement.  All of the early settlements were near water because of the advantage that gave to trade and travel. 
   Label the other geographical features as well.
   Finally, ask students to shade the water areas very lightly with a light blue color pencil.  Emphasize this point - scribbled or dark blue coloring will make the map unusable.
   Once students have the routes neatly placed on the map, they can go over the lines to darken the colors.
   Next, show the areas of colonization by Spain and Portugal in the New World.  The dotted lines will help guide students as they lightly shade the areas with the appropriate colors.  Be sure students complete the color key.