Rule Comparisons

This worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 strengthen critical thinking, vocabulary relationships, historical understanding, and analogy reasoning through Pilgrim and Mayflower Compact concepts. By completing and analyzing analogies, learners explore how early colonial ideas about agreements, leadership, and governance connect to broader civic structures, helping them see relationships between historical terms and modern concepts.

Skills Reinforced

• Analogy & Word Relationships (Grades 4-6) – Identify and complete analogies that show connections between related ideas
• Colonial Governance Concepts – Understand how agreements, rules, and leadership functioned in early settlements
• Historical Reasoning – Compare Pilgrim decision-making to larger systems of organization and government
• Creative & Critical Thinking – Create an original analogy to demonstrate deeper comprehension

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed by educators to align with upper elementary social studies and ELA standards
• Analogy-Based Practice – Encourages higher-order thinking beyond memorization
• Bonus Challenge Included – Extends learning through student-created analogies
• Flexible Use – Works well for classwork, enrichment, review, or homeschool instruction
• Accessible Format – Clear patterns and examples support independent learning

This Rule Comparisons worksheet helps students deepen their understanding of the Mayflower Compact by examining relationships between key ideas rather than isolated facts. Through analogy analysis and creative application, learners strengthen vocabulary knowledge, historical thinking, and civic understanding. It’s a no-prep, engaging resource for classroom and homeschool settings focused on building meaningful connections in early American history.

This worksheet is part of our Mayflower Compact Worksheets collection.