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American Revolution Free Classroom Activities and Project Ideas
These are free classroom activities and project ideas for teachers to use in your unit study of the american revolutionary war. these activities and projects can be adjusted for any grade. we hope you'll find some ideas you can use..
The Stamp Act - Events leading up to the American Revolution
ROLE PLAY: The King's Taxation with rules of game play, classroom activity
CLASSROOM ACTIVITY: Was the Stamp Act fair?
SIMULATION: "No taxation without representation" simulation activity
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American Revolution Break Up Letters, letters from the colonies to Britain, why they want independence, use humor
5th grade Revolution Research Packet - 10 pages, free from TPT
SIMULATIONS: Easy Simulations - American Revolution
INQUIRY BASED PROJECT: When are revolutions worth the cost?
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American Revolution Project Menu, free from TPT
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George Washington vs. King George III, compare and contrast
Revolutionary War Living Museum Project - Students research someone during the Revolution, write a short paper, and write a short skit. You can team up with other students, each researching your own, but writing your skit together.
Choose Your Own Adventure from over 70 different classroom activities and possible assignments
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Our lesson plans are divided into eight collections.
Our lesson plans provide teachers with a wide selection of tools and approaches to teaching their students about the major achievements of the american revolution—our independence, our republic, our national identity, and our ideals of liberty, equality, natural and civil rights, and responsible citizenship. these lessons use images, primary source documents, and period artifacts to help students understand the revolution—the defining event in american history. they introduce students to major historical interpretations of the revolution and teach them to read critically. they provide strategies for teaching students to research and interpret revolutionary events and people, and the introduce students to the global dimension of the american revolution..
IMAGINING THE REVOLUTION Teaching Students to Interpret the Visual Record
The aim of Imagining the Revolution lesson plans is to teach students how to interpret the visual record of the American Revolution, which consists of visual arts—paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture. Imagining the Revolution asks students to go beyond the obvious questions about the literal accuracy of images to explore the intent of the artists and the meaning they and their contemporaries attached to the people and events they depicted.
REVOLUTION ON PAPER Teaching Students to Interpret Primary Source Documents
The aim of Revolution on Paper lesson plans is to teach students how to interpret primary source documents, acquaint them with the nature of documentary evidence, and to introduce them to some of the most important documents of the American Revolution. Some lessons address great state papers, while other focus on private documents, including letters and diaries.
OBJECTS OF REVOLUTION Teaching Students to Interpret Artifacts as Primary Sources
The aim of Objects of Revolution lesson plans is to teach students how to interpret surviving artifacts of the Revolutionary era and relate them to the contexts in which they were made and used. The things people made and used in the American Revolution complement the documentary and visual record and offer insights about life in the Revolutionary era that cannot be found in other sources.
MASTER TEACHER LESSONS Primary Source-Based Content featuring our Museum and Library Collections
A movement to ensure that all Americans understand and appreciate the American Revolution depends upon thousands of talented teachers sharing the constructive achievements of the Revolution with their students. Each year the Institute gathers the best history teachers in the nation for a week-long seminar to discuss the most important themes to teach young Americans and to create model lessons using the Institute’s rich collection of primary source materials associated with one or more of the four primary achievements of the Revolution—our independence, our republic, our national identity and the high ideals that have shaped our national history.
REVOULUTIONARY EXHIBITIONS Lessons featuring our Library and Museum Collections on Exhibition at Anderson House
The Institute’s temporary exhibitions at our Anderson House headquarters offer intimate and compelling looks at the history of the Revolution through authentic works of art, artifacts and documents. Exploring themes related to the cause for American independence, the people and events of the war and the Society of the Cincinnati, these exhibitions—and the lessons they inspire—contribute to our understanding and appreciation of the Revolution and its legacy.
REVOLUTIONARY CHARACTERS Teaching Students to Interpret the People who made the Revolution
The aim of Revolutionary Characters lesson plans is to teach students to frame valid historical questions about the major individuals and groups involved in the American Revolution and to conduct the basic research and interpretive analysis required to answer them. Revolutionary Characters challenges students to ask and answer questions about the ideas and motives of historical actors by using primary sources.
THE REVOLUTIONARY WORLD Teaching Students to Place American History in Global Contexts
The aim of The Revolutionary World lesson plans is to acquaint students with the international and global dimension of the American Revolution, which was tied to the maritime trade, the rise of consumerism in western Europe, the competition between European powers, questions about slavery and freedom, resistance to imperial regulation in the Americas, and other patterns and trends that can only be understood from the perspective of world history.
LEGACIES OF THE REVOLUTION Teaching Students about the Enduring Consequences of the Revolution
The aim of the Legacies of the Revolution lesson plans is to acquaint students with the consequences of the American Revolution over more than two hundred and thirty years, including the enduring influence of the Declaration of Independence and the relationship between the American Revolution and abolitionism, the shaping of the women’s right’s movement and the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, and less obvious ways in which the Revolution has shaped American life, like the ways in which we honor veterans and relations between Indians and other Americans.
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1) Introduce your individual by describing who you are, where you come from, and any other biographical information you can add. 2) Describe your experiences during the American Revolution. Are you a rebel/loyalist? What was the reason(s) for joining the Revolution or being against it? What hardships do you encounter, etc? a.) First one: . b.)
You can team up with other students, each researching your own, but writing your skit together. Choose Your Own Adventure from over 70 different classroom activities and possible assignments. See Also: American Revolution Free Lesson Plans with Classroom Activities for Teachers. Interactive American Revolution Free Interactive Games
The assignment section contains infromation about a research paper which is of about 15 pages in length, based on historical questions and to a considerable extent upon primary sources, that is, documents that for most topics will be from the eighteenth century.
In this course, we will study the causes of the American Revolution, the violent separation of thirteen British colonies from their empire, and the construction of a new nation. Along the way, we will consider the creation and evolution of American identity. What would the residents of North America in 1765 have called themselves?
American Revolution Essay Questions - 1 How was the American Revolution influenced by Enlightenment ideas? 2 Describe the economic causes of the American Revolution. 3 Imagine that you are a slave of Thomas Jefferson, living in Virginia in 1776.
What were the major events of the American Revolution and in what order did they occur? Lesson 2: The Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts Why did the colonists begin to rebel against Great Britain? Lesson 3: What was Unfair? What disagreements led to the American Revolution?
These lessons use images, primary source documents, and period artifacts to help students understand the Revolution—the defining event in American history. They introduce students to major historical interpretations of the Revolution and teach them to read critically.
MAKING THE REVOLUTION presents an expansive collection of primary sources to enhance classroom study of the American Revolutionary period from 1763 to 1791 (the end of the French and Indian War to the adoption of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights).
Topics covered include: English and American backgrounds of the Revolution; issues and arguments in the Anglo-American conflict; colonial resistance and the beginnings of republicanism; the Revolutionary War; constitution writing for the states and nation; and effects of the American Revolution.
Our free printable outlines can be highly beneficial to United States History students studying the American Revolution for several reasons. Structural Organization: Outlines provide a clear and structured framework for organizing information about the American Revolution.