5 powerful primary sources to help middle school students understand the Revolutionary War (5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade). Worksheets included.
How many of your students love historical fiction? Do you? My experience is that kids have specific preferences, but yet, we never know if and when we will spark interest in something new. Thematic teaching using historical fiction expands student interest. In this post, I’d like to share a variety of books and resources that ...
Teaching about the Revolutionary War? This page has everything you'll need including a helpful overview, pacing guide, and free lessons.
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On September 3, 1783, the peace treaty was signed ending the American Revolutionary War between the American colonies & Britain. Click for more facts.
Events Leading Up To Revolutionary War PBL Activities (Problem Based Learning | Project Based Learning) Cross-curricular challenge for students who are studying US History and The American Revolution Welcome to 1765-1775 You travel back in time to the late 1700’s. Tensions are strong between the British and the colonists. The Proclamation of 1763 was a major source of conflict for the two groups. Students will create their very own PBL booklet. PBL activities utilize creative learning and real-world problem-solving strategies! Students use mapping skills as well as knowledge of simple machines to build tools! Sample pages (answer key) included in the file. _______________________________________________________________________ You may be interested in these aligned American Revolution resources Interactive Notebook Interactive PowerPoint Reading Passages ____________________________________________________________ You may also enjoy.... ✎United States History Interactive Notebooks ✎United States History PowerPoints _______________________________________________________________________ Tips for Savvy TpT Shoppers: How to receive credit on TpT to use for future purchases: • Go to your My Purchases page. Under each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. I value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you. Be the first to know about my new discounts, FREEBIES, and products: • Look for a green star near the top of any page within my store and click it to become a follower. You will now be able to see FREEBIES and customized emails from my store! ©2020 StudentSavvy All rights reserved by author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. Electronic distribution limited to single classroom use only. (unless you purchase the multiple license)
Revolutionary War Unit with 15 complete lessons, simulations, games, worksheets, activities, and more! Can be used with 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th graders.
10 American Revolutionary War Activities | Amazing Tea Bag Rocket Science. You can’t dive deep into a study about our bid for independence from Britain without including some great hands-on Revolutionary War activities.
Updated 2024: This 80 page book study is perfect for a wide range of needs including small group guided reading, whole group novel units, or individual home school use. Both color and B&W options are available. Most of the study is print and go with NO PREP. There are optional vocabulary cards and two mini books that require low prep cutting/assembly. There is a differentiated option available for each chapter review page as well as for a few other pages. Teacher materials such as suggested use pages and answer keys for the main chapter review questions are included. The unit is structured around comprehension questions, vocabulary materials, and extension activities. 1. Packet Covers, Suggested Use Pages 2. Vocabulary Cards, Recording Pages, Activity Pages, Dictionary Booklet 3. Chapter Review Questions 4. Differentiated Chapter Review Questions 5. Cumulative Book Review Page 6. Extended Response (Essay) Pages 7. Jack's Notebook Pages (Ex. "What did/would Jack write about...") 8. Sequencing, Cause and Effect, Story Mapping, and Character Analysis Pages 9. Minute Fact Mini Booklet 10. Extension and Alternative Chapter Review Activities (Word Search, Menu, etc.) 11. Answer Keys for main chapter review questions, book review page/quiz, word searches, sequencing, and cause and effect pages
Students will enjoy reading these "Ten Interesting Facts about the Revolutionary War." Be sure to head to the bottom of the post for links to a printable
Kids love pretending to be spies. These simple activities will take that pretend play beyond just hiding behind the living room chair. Learn how to make invisible ink 3 different ways and write your own secret code.
Taxation without representation set the stage for the rebellion that formed the American Revolutionary War. In this series we have discussed The Sugar Act, The Currency Act, and The Quartering Act; each of which put huge burdens on the American colonists. The final act we will learn about if the Stamp Act. This series will go alongside any American Revolutionary Unit in your homeschool. Gaining independence from Britain has made us who we are as a nation today.
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Homeschoolers, teachers, and parents, I’ve made a list of historical fiction children’s books about The American Revolutionary War that will help set the stage for...
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Valley Forge Reading Comprehension and Puzzle Escape Room - Revolutionary War - Think Tank Teacher
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The Sugar Act was passed on April 5, 1764. The old Sugar and Molasses Act of 1733 was about to expire, so the new Sugar Act reduced the tax on Molasses but added many more rules and items to be taxed! This act was very sneaky because it reduced the molasses tax to help to curb the smuggling of sugar and molasses into the colonies. By reducing the previous tax it now included many more foreign goods to be taxed which were sugar, certain wines, coffee, indigo fabric dye, and molasses.
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The Valley Forge (Revolutionary War) DIGITAL Escape ROOM gives students a chance to decode puzzles and read passages, all while actively learning! This interactive reading passage and puzzle activity covers the following topics: Valley Forge, Revolutionary War, George Washington, living conditions, Steuben, and Lafayette. Students will practice reading comprehension and critical thinking skills as they search for icons in a 360° room. No prior knowledge is needed. Great addition to your Revolutionary War unit. The whole activity is housed with ONE link, making this a cinch to share and play! No other websites are used or linked. This is an engaging NO PREP activity with a unique twist of FUN! Just share the link…it’s that EASY! Did I mention that it is SELF-CHECKING? It is your responsibility to ensure the link will work prior to your purchase. Test the link below to see if your district blocks the site on a student account. If you get a 404 error that means your district has blocked the site. You can always email your district technology rep to gain access. https://www.thinglink.com/scenariocard/1547311340031311873 (no account needed) Students will work in pairs (or individually) and race to complete 6 puzzles. A friendly competition always increases engagement. Students will use reading comprehension skills to complete the 6 short passages, 12 questions, and 6 puzzles. No grading involved! This is a SELF-CHECKING digital activity that offers immediate student feedback. The questions are set with “answer validation,” therefore, students cannot move on to the next challenge until they enter the answers correctly. This ensures that students actually read the passages! Students WILL need scratch paper to record clues. How do Digital Escape Rooms work? All you need to do is send students the link! This digital escape room has students working through SIX rooms with a 360° view. Each “room” has hidden icons that lead to a reading passage, puzzle hint, and puzzle to decode. Students will answer questions for each reading passage, then use the decoder to determine the puzzle answer. Drag the mouse or keypad to move the screen for a 360° view! Please note: You will not be able to collect scores or data since this is a self-checking, digital activity. What do I need to access the activity? You need access to the internet and technology devices (Chromebooks, iPads, or laptops). Google accounts are NOT needed! (no e-mail addresses are required) This is a DIGITAL activity only and it is NOT editable. There is also a “Read to Me” option which allows the students to hear the passage read to them. If they choose this option, be sure they have headphones. Cell phone use is not recommended. What’s Included? ✅ 6 Short reading passages ✅ 6 Puzzles ✅ 12 Questions (multiple choice & short answer) ✅ Teacher directions ✅ Student directions (digital) ✅ Puzzle Hints (digital) Benefits: ✏️ Self-grading ✏️ Immediate Student Feedback ✏️ Interactive ✏️ Paperless ✏️ No Prep ✏️ Saves You Time ✏️ Critical Thinking What’s needed? ✏️ Scratch Paper ✏️ Pencils ✏️ Internet Skills Used: ✔️ Reading Comprehension ✔️ Critical Thinking ✔️ Peer Collaboration ✔️ Problem Solving Looking for more Digital Escapes? Click HERE Grab a FREE Ancient Egypt Task Cards Game when you join the Think Tank Teacher community! Click HERE for American Revolution Escape Rooms Click HERE for Colonial America Escape Rooms Click HERE for Constitution Escape Rooms Click HERE for Growth Mindset Escape Rooms Click HERE for Ancient History Escape Rooms Click HERE for Geography Escape Rooms Click HERE for Earth Science Escape Rooms ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits you can use to lower the cost of future purchases. I truly value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom. :-) Copyright Information : © Think Tank Teacher LLC. Please note - all material included in this resource belongs to Think Tank Teacher LLC. By purchasing, you have a license to use the material but you do not own the material. You may not upload any portion of this resource to the internet in any format, including school/personal websites or network drives unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students, not other teachers or anyone else on the internet.
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The American Revolution is one of our favorite times in history. We love to use living books, and study a person for a period of time, like Charlotte Mason recommended, so we can really get to know the era in which they lived. George Washington - Truly one of my family's favorite people to study during this time period of America's earliest founding. As a young man, George was brave and showed many abilities to strategize and make clear decisions that proved necessary. Prior to becoming our first President, George grew his skills in the the French and Indian War,
While we were watching an episode of Liberty's Kids - The Complete Series (which, incidentally, my kids love with all their collective hearts) it mentioned how the mail was being intercepted during the Revolutionary War by both sides and that coding and other techniques were necessary in order to keep sensitive war communications secret. The kids seemed really intrigued by the idea that Ben Franklin used invisible ink, so I ran with it. First, I had the kids read this information article I found about the various spy techniques that both the British and the Americans were using during the Revolution. We wrote our purpose (finding information about the different ways people sent coded messages) and then began annotating the article. After a good first read (lead by me), then a second read in partners where the students wrote their own ideas about each technique, I had them summarize 3 of the most intriguing techniques, with evidence from the text in their summary. We published using index cards. One card for each of the three most interesting spy techniques. From there, we turned towards more math-y pursuits. Since one of our math strands is working with order of operations, I combined that with creating a coded message. The students wrote each letter of the alphabet vertically on a piece of paper. They then created expressions containing at least one set of parentheses and two different operations. It looked a bit like this: A (5 x 2) - 4 B 2(4 + 3) C 15 - (2 x 3) The students then solved each expression to make sure the answer was unique (no two letters could have the same end product). This part is VERY challenging for the students. It actually took them two days. The process of thinking of problems, and then making sure they had unique values, really got their 5th grade brains moving! Once all of the expressions were created, they did not reveal the expression answers on the final draft. Those were turned in to me. Their cipher key just had the letters and expressions. The next step was to write a sentence that would be something that either the British or American sides would have wanted to encode. The sentences needed to be at least 7 words long, but could convey any message within the theme. They then drew the blank lines for each letter in the word, and put the number of the final expression answer underneath. So it looked like this: _____ _____ ______ ______ ______ 14 6 12 75 32 Finally, they created a finalized draft of the secret code on index cards, glued them onto envelopes, with the cipher key above it, and viola, there were 33 codes to be solved! I made copies of the codes and the students put them into their envelopes as well. Now, whenever there is free time in class (after they finish their Calendar or Answer Is) the students can walk up and discover the secret codes that the American or British generals were sending.
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The Revolutionary War Battles Task Card Escape Room gives students a chance to practice reading comprehension skills and decode puzzles, all while actively learning! With their reading passage in hand, students will move around the classroom and visit 16 task cards. The task cards are broken down into 4 levels or puzzle types. This reading comprehension activity covers the following topics: Revolutionary War, Lexington and Concord. Yorktown, Paul Revere, George Washington. Great addition to your American Revolution unit. This lesson only covers Lexington, Concord and Yorktown. Students will revisit the non-fiction text multiple times, practicing reading comprehension and critical thinking skills as they rotate around the room decoding puzzles. To ensure understanding of the subject matter, students will answer questions that can be found directly in their reading passage. No prior knowledge is needed. Students will work in pairs (or individually) and race to complete 16 questions. A friendly competition always increases engagement. Students will read the informational text, answer 16 multiple choice questions and decode 4 types of puzzles which ultimately lead to a final 4-digit code. In addition to learning or reinforcing the subject matter, these escape rooms encourage teamwork and critical thinking. As a “timed” challenge, students will be engaged from beginning to end! You do NOT need a lock! You do NOT need fancy envelopes! This product is meant to make your life easy! This is a LOW PREP, print, cut & go escape room activity! The only thing you need to do is cut the task cards and hang or hide them around the room! No locks required, though you can certainly add a programmable four-digit lock to add an element of mystery if you so choose. This is a great front-loading activity that allows students to get some facts while previewing key vocabulary words, people, places or events that you will teach throughout your unit. What’s Included? ✅ Reading Passage ✅ 16 Multiple Choice Questions ✅ 4 Puzzle Decoders ✅ Teacher Directions ✅ Answer Key ✅ Student Directions ✅ Puzzle Decoding Hints Types of Puzzles ✅ Pigpen ✅ Pictogram ✅ Text Message ✅ Polybius (Basic addition skills) Skills Used: ✔️ Reading Comprehension ✔️ Critical Thinking ✔️ Peer Collaboration ✔️ Problem Solving Your students MIGHT struggle the first time they see the codes! That’s OK, this IS an escape room after all. Let them think it out for a bit before you help them. Some puzzles are more challenging (this is on purpose). Benefits of Use: ✏️ Super Low Prep ✏️ Print, Cut and Go ✏️ Cross-Curricular ✏️ Highly Engaging ✏️ No Locks Needed ✏️ No Silly Envelopes to Stuff ✏️ No Odd Shapes to Cut Out Options for Use: ✏️ Anticipatory Sets ✏️ Unit Review ✏️ Early Finishers ✏️ Gallery Walk ✏️ Stations ✏️ Sub Plans ✏️ Rewards ✏️ Individual Work ✏️ Partner Activities ✏️ Extension Activities »»» Comprehension Challenge: Click HERE »»» Printable ESCAPE ROOMS: Click HERE »»» Interactive Google Slides™: Click HERE »»» Digital Secret Message Activities: Click HERE »»» Digital ESCAPE ROOMS: Click HERE »»» Color by Number - Text Marking: Click HERE »»» Digital Reading Passages: Click HERE »»» Interactive Game Boards: Click HERE »»» Reading Passages and Text Marking: Click HERE »»» Back to School: Click HERE »»» Collaborative Posters: Click HERE »»» Scavenger Hunts: Click HERE How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits you can use to lower the cost of future purchases. I truly value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom. :-) Copyright Information : © Think Tank Teacher LLC. Please note - all material included in this resource belongs to Think Tank Teacher LLC. By purchasing, you have a license to use the material but you do not own the material. You may not upload any portion of this resource to the internet in any format, including school/personal websites or network drives unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students, not other teachers or anyone else on the internet.
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