5SSAmRevolution

=American Revolution =

Quick Activities and Games
[|Revolutionary War Cause and Effect:] Click and drag your mouse over the right hand column to see if you know the correct answer.

[|Revolution Activities] Lots of recommended links and activities

BrainPop Movie- (See your librarian or technologist for campus login) Causes of the American Revolution http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/causesoftheamericanrevolution/

Movies of Early America []

Lessons- Internet
[|Liberty!:] First read the Chronicles of the Revolution to learn about the important events in the American Revolution. Then take the [|online quiz] to see how much you've learned.

[|American Revolution Webquest] Introduction: Pretend you can travel back in time to the earliest days of our country's history. You could experience what life was like in a land ripe with new possibilities for religious, economic, and political opportunities. Would you arrive in this new world as a slave, a farmer, a woman, or an artisan?

[|Loyalty or Liberty Web Activity:] Mission: You are a slave in colonial Virginia owned by a staunch Loyalist. As a Loyalist, he will soon leave Virginia and move to London. Your new master will be his son, a Patriot. Your errands take you to both Loyalist and Patriot homes and businesses in Williamsburg. Your master has told you to keep your eyes and ears open for any information about the rebellion that might be useful to the British. Because your master is such an outspoken Loyalist, Patriots have also promised to pay you for any information you can gather about the British. But, as a slave, you wonder if either side really deserves your help, since both sides support slavery. Eventually you'll have to choose sides. There are eight secrets to uncover, so be sure to talk with everybody you meet. When you've gathered all the secrets, it's time for you to choose: Revolution or not?


 * Note taking organizer for Loyalty or Liberty Activity**-

Internet Resources- Student
[|Mount Vernon:] Learn all about George Washington

http://timeline.americanrevolutioncenter.org/
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Interactive Timeline- **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Internet Resources- Teacher
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discovery Education Streaming (United Streaming) Video- [|Will You Sign Here, John Hancock?] Presents the ambitious, vain, and charming man, John Hancock, whose signature on the Declaration of Independence was so large that the king didn't need spectacles to read it!

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Revolutionary War for Kids:] Ideas for activities to help teach the Revolutionary War.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Match the Country Worksheet:] Students match the fact to the correct flag... American or British

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Complaints Against King George Worksheet:] Students match the meaning of the colonists complaints against King George as they are worded in the Declaration of Independence.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Revolutionary War and Children's Literature:] Ideas for teaching the Revolutionary War

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|A Printable Play about the Revolutionary War] [|Revolutionary War Activities and Quizzes] In class activities and an online quiz for each event leading to the revolution.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Interactive American Revolution Timeline] Includes links to podcasts for some of the pictures, a 20 question quiz and a lesson plan search engine.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Resources from Social Studies Alive
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Boston Massacre Re-enactment Video <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> http://www.bostonmassacre.net/timeline.htm <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Information on the Boston Massacre can be found at BostonMassacre.net. This site has pages on primary source accounts of the event, the people involved, the location, a timeline, images, a detailed description, little known facts, and much more. The site’s homepage has a seven-minute video of a reenactment, or acting out, of the event. The reenactment takes place on the actual site of the Massacre, in downtown Boston. The video gives you a sense of how loud and chaotic, or out of control, the event was.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Colonial Williamsburg: Patrick Henry <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> http://www.history.org/Almanack/people/bios/biohen.cfm#speech <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The website for Colonial Williamsburg has a page devoted to Patrick Henry, whom you read about in Reading Further. At this page you can read or listen to his “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech. You can also read more about this famous speaker, and listen to experts discuss him.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> A Day in the Life of Thomas Jefferson <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> http://www.monticello.org/jefferson/dayinlife/sunrise/home.html <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> To learn more about Thomas Jefferson, whom you read about in Reading Further, visit Monticello.org. At this site devoted to Jefferson’s home in Virginia, you can read about the daily life of the author of the Declaration of Independence.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Declaration of Independence <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration.html <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> View the original document and read the text.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">nps.gov: Declaration of Independence <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/declaration/bioa.htm <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The National Park Service hosts this site with lots of information about the Declaration of Independence and the conflicts that led up to it. On this page, a list of all the signers allows you to learn more about each of them. As you click on each link, you’ll find a portrait and some brief information of the signer at the top of the page. Below this is a complete biography of the signer for more research.