Journey to a new land

What would it be like to have to leave the known & journey to the unknown?  Children empathise by imagining a journey into space to an unknown planet – what would you need to take?

Teaching Outcomes
To empathize with the First Pilgrim families through imaginative exploration of a current day escape to a ‘New World’.
To locate Continents, (Europe, N America); Ocean (Atlantic); Countries (USA, England in UK); Towns (Plymouth); Places (Plymouth Rock) using world map, globe and atlases.

Children will:

• Think about the 'who, why, where, and when' elements of the first pilgrims in 1620.
• Imagine and explore emotions and feelings possibly felt by the pilgrims through re-enactments of events and imagining the landscape of the New World.

• Script to be read after the story Whatever Next by Jill Murphy
• This is the Way the Pilgrims Sailed song

• Whatever Next by Jill Murphy
• The Story of the Pilgrims by Katherine Ross
• Feelings and emotions wall to list responses
• Rocket and star shaped cookies and/or healthy snacks
• Water to drink

Whatever Next read by the story teller – YouTube clip
Journey through Deep Space – YouTube clip
English clothes in 1620 from plimoth.org
The Mayflower from scribblescrabble2013.wordpress.com
About the Mayflower from plimoth.org