Nightmare in Jamestown
From: National Geographic
Grade Level: (MS), (HS), (College)
Remote Ready: With Films on Demand
Time: 51 min
Length of Reading: None
Link: None
The documentary Nightmare in Jamestown provides an overview of the settlement of Jamestown and what went wrong there. It includes historical reenactments and CSI-style excavation of archeological evidence.
Find it at your local library. Or, if your local library (college or community college library) subscribes to the Films on Demand database, you may be able to watch it online with your library card.
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Grade Level:
(MS), (HS), (College): We put these in parentheses because there is no specified age group for the activity; however, we think it would be well suited for middle school, high school, and college students
This Activity Involves:
Movie: This activity involves a clip, film, or documentary.
Highsmith, Carol M, photographer. Historic interpreters Chas Ritinski and Julie Power nearly obscured by smoke fire a cannon from a parapet at the Jamestown Settlement in Jamestown, Virginia. -11-24. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2020724636/>.
