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EXPLORATION, ENCOUNTER, EXCHANGE IN HISTORY 35 National Park Service Digging into the Colonial Past: Archeology and the Sixteenth Century www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/155santaelena/155santaelena.htm Spanish Settlements at Charlesfort-Santa Elena Students will “dig” into the site of a sixteenth-century Spanish town in presentday South Carolina—founded before Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth— in this lesson plan from Teaching with Historic Places. Using readings, maps, primary sources, and more, students study early Spanish colonialism in North America and learn how modern archeology solved the mystery of CharlesfortSanta Elena on Parris Island. www.nps.gov/natr/forteachers/classrooms/history-of-the-natchez-trace.htm History of the Natchez Trace Parkway Students study maps of the Natchez Trace Parkway and learn how a path once traveled by migrating wildlife evolved into a hunting trail for Native Americans and eventually the main overland trade route for European settlers and the “Kaintucks,” or Kentucky boatmen, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Explore the wilderness of Tennessee and Mississippi and follow the development of the Natchez Trace into the National Park Service parkway of today. www.nps.gov/fora/forteachers/classrooms/exploring-a-new-world.htm Exploring a New World: England Comes to America Under the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, England would finally gain an interest in the New World, in an attempt to keep up with Spain and other European powers that had long been exploring and settling the area. This lesson explains why England was primed for exploration in the 1580s and why Roanoke Island was the first British settlers’ destination. For a complete bibliography and links to download these resources, go to www.nhd.org/themebook.