Student+Activities

=Monday: =

Welcome to the American Revolution Unit! Today you will first listen to a short introduction about the Revolution, and then afterwards you will complete a Internet Scavenger Hunt on what you learned!

Directions for Scavenger Hunt: First get the paper copy of this scavenger hunt from your teacher. Next open up the Scavenger Hunt by clicking on the hyperlink. Then Follow the directions on your worksheet to answer the questions. Afterwards turn in your completed assignment.

=Tuesday: =

Welcome back! Today you will watch a video on the causes of the Revolution. Be sure to take notes while you watch the video because afterwards you will have to make a detailed time line of the events that occurred.

Please click on the link to open the video and begin viewing:

Causes of the Revolution Video

By now you should have finished watching the video.

Follow these directions to complete your time line:

1. Open up the Inspiration Software on your computer by clicking on the icon on the screen. 2. Next you must pick some events to include in your time line. Decide which ones are the most important. You must choose at least 5 important events to include in your time line. And briefly give a description of each event. 3. Create a time line using the software; make sure that your events are in order by their dates from oldest to youngest. 4. On the time line include the date the event occurred, the title of the event and a brief description of each. 5. You must include at least 3 pictures or graphics into your time line. 6. When you have completed the assignment save your time line with your name as the title so that I know whose project I am opening.

= = =Wednesday: =

Today you are going to read Articles about various important individuals that helped move the revolution along.

Follow the following link and read about these people:

Paul Revere Samuel Adams Benjamin Franklin

Afterwards take this quiz to test your knowledge of the various individuals:



=Thursday: =

Today You learned about what a primary Source was. Now we are actually going to examine some primary Sources from the American Revolution and Answer some short answer questions about them.

Follow this link to view the primary Sources and examine these documents:

Boston Tea Party Eyewitness Account

Follow this link for the questions you must print out, answer and turn in for your assignment.



=Friday: =

After learning so much about the Revolution today we are going to put your knowledge to the test. Today you are going to watch a liberty Kids episode on the Boston tea party.

Afterwards you will write a page summary of what happened in the episode and what you learned from the episode. In addition you will take what you know from previous lessons on the Boston tea party and decide on a scale of 1-5 with five being the most accurate and 1 being not accurate at all, how accurate the cartoon episode was to what actually occurred during the Tea Party.

You will type your Summary in the discussion tab of this wiki. I suggest first typing your submission in Word and saving the file before posting and then just copy and paste the text from the document.

Follow this Link to watch the Liberty Kids episode which is in two parts:

Part 1 Part 2