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Historic Cooking

Have you ever wondered what was eaten at the First Thanksgiving? Or What people in 17th-century New England were cooking in Plimoth Patuxet? These recipes have been carefully crafted by our experts using primary sources and scholarly research.

Digital Resources

Digital resources bring history alive in classrooms across the globe. Explore comprehensive multimedia sources below to enliven and support your in classroom lessons.

Calling All Bakers for the Great New England Pumpkin Pie Contest

Plimoth Patuxet Museums stirs up fun and prizes to find the best pumpkin pie in the region!

National History Day

Plimoth Patuxet Museums is proud to support National History Day. We are excited to work with students and teachers on projects that explore 17th-century colonial and Indigenous history.

Plimoth Patuxet Museums Among Top Virtual Field Trips for Homeschoolers

Recognition by Twinkl Education Company

You Are The Historian

Teacher Toolkit Overview

This Teacher Toolkit features a curated collection of oral history, archaeological artifacts, and archival documents to explore early intercultural encounters in Patuxet (Plymouth).

Unit 2

In this unit, students explore the agreement made between Massasoit (Ousamequin), sachem of Pokanoket, his brother Quadequina, and Plymouth Colony’s elected governor, John Carver, and others. In this unit, students will use excerpts from written sources to explore why an agreement made sense, and how it may have informed key diplomatic events from the summer of 1621 through the harvest celebration later that year. Students will also use traditions such as wampum belts, gift-giving, and feasting to explore diplomacy and alliance-making.

Unit 4

In this unit, students will investigate the only surviving eyewitness account of the 1621 harvest feast and use other complementary sources to deepen their understanding of the spiritual world views, particularly around gratitude, which formed the foundation of events over the three days. Students will also explore how the 1621 harvest feast came to be known as the First Thanksgiving over the next 200 years and how the meaning of the holiday changes as new meaning is layered.

Educational Resources

Find activities and resources to enhance learning in the classroom, and on a field trip to Plimoth Patuxet Museums!