The Name: Michele Riggs, Christine Kelly, Joan Betts, Sheri Sorensen, Peggy Harding
Lesson Title, Concept or Theme: Change Through Revolution
Lesson Goal:Students will learn about people, places, and events of the American Revolution
Objective (# 1 ): Students will identify people, places, and events of the American Revolution in chronological order
Assessment: A timeline with a minimum of 20 entries including important dates, people, and events pertaining to the American Revolution
Activity / Product/Process / Standard or Outcome
Number / Bloom’s
Level / Gardner’s Multiple Intelli-
gence(s) / Big 6™ / Technology / Multi-Media Resources
1. Learners will engage in research investigating the people, place, and events of the American Revolution represented on a timeline.
2. Learners will write journal entries as if they were a fictional person (i.e., merchant, farmer, child, woman, soldier, etc.) living at the time of the American Revolution
3. Learners will draw a pictorial representation of a person, place, or event of the American Revolution. / Learners will record their findings from their research on note cards.
Student will include the sources of the information they find.
Learners will write in a journal about people, places, and events.
Learners will produce a picture demonstrating a person, place, or event. / Social Studies 1.1
1.2
4.2
Library Media
1.1-2
3.1-2
4.1-2
Educational Technology Standard 4
Standard 5
Lang. Arts
8.1
8.6
Educational Technology Standard 4
Standard 5
Fine Arts/Visual
4.1
4.2 / Comprehension
Application
Analysis
Synthesis
Evaluation
Comprehension
Application
Analysis
Synthesis
Knowledge
Comprehension
Application / Logical-Mathematical
Intrapersonal
Linguistic
Intra-personal
Spatial
Intrapersonal / 2
3
4
5
1
4
5
4
5 / Learners will have the following resources for all activities:
Pioneer-
MarcoPolo
Digital Curriculum
World Book
LOC
ALA
Wilson’s Biographies / Learners will have the following resources for all activities:
Word Processor
Internet
Multied.com/revolt
Earlyamerica.com
Ushistory.org
Historyplace.com
American memory
Library of congress.gov
Books
Jean Fritz books
Can't You Make Them Behave, King George?
Will You Sign Here, John Hancock?
Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams?
Eyewitness: American Revolution (Eyewitness Books)by Stuart Murray, Dorling Kindersley Publishing
If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolutionby Kay Moore, Daniel O'Leary (Illustrator)
Additional books about the American Revolution
The Name: Michele Riggs, Christine Kelly, Joan Betts, Sheri Sorensen, Peggy Harding
Lesson Title, Concept or Theme: Change Through Revolution
Lesson Goal:Students will learn about people, places, and events of the American Revolution
Objective (# 2): Students will identify underlying causes leading to a major event in the American Revolution
Assessment: Produce and perform a mini-drama that portrays one event, including people and places from the American Revolution and its effects on thecountry
Activity / Product/Process / Standard or Outcome
Number / Bloom’s
Level / Gardner’s Multiple Intelli-
gence(s) / Big 6™ / Technology / Multi-Media Resources
1. Learners will create a Flowchart outlining the underlining events that led to a major event of the American Revolution. These events will then be put into a causal map so students can identify the causes and effects of that major event.
2. Learners will research music and songs related to the American Revolution.
3. Learners will web identifying characters, setting, and plot for a play set during the American Revolution
4. Learners will storyboard their play.
5. Learners will write a script for their play. / Learners will complete a flow chart followed by a causal map.
Learners will create or use an original song (or rap) about the American Revolution
Learners will create a web to produce a mini-drama or melodrama about a person(s), place, and event of the
American Revolution
Learners will create a storyboard about their play.Learners will create a script for their play. / Social Studies
1.1
4.2
Language Arts
8.1
Educational Technology Standard 4
Standard 5
Fine Arts/Music
3.1
3.3
Social Studies
2.2
Social Studies 1.1
4.2
Fine Arts/ Theater
1.1
Language Arts
8.1
Educational Technology Standard 4
Standard 5
Language Arts
8.1
Educational Technology Standard 4
Standard 5
Language Arts 6.2
8.2
Fine Arts/ Theater
1.2
Educational Technology Standard 4
Standard 5
Standard 8 / Knowledge
Comprehension
Application
Analysis
Synthesis
Evaluation
/ Linguistic
Logical-Mathematical
Spatial
Intrapersonal
Linguistic
Spatial
Musical
Interpersonal
Linguistic
Logical-Mathematical
Spatial
Interpersonal
Linguistic
Logical-Mathematical
Spatial
Interpersonal
Linguistic
Logical-Mathematical
Spatial
Interpersonal / 1
2
3
4
5
6
1
2
3
1
2
3
4
5
6
1
2
3
4
5
6
1
2
3
4
5
6 / Learners will use the software Inspiration to draw their flow chart.
Learners will use the Intel internet software Seeing Reason to develop their causal map.
Teacher will locate and utilize resources pertaining to the American Revolution. Including, but not limited to:
Audio tapes
CDs
Videos
Learners will use paper, PowerPoint, or HyperStudio
Teacher will record with a Digital Camera and/or Video Camera / Learners will have access to the following resources:
Inspiration
Internet—Intel’s Seeing Reason
Students will view a small portion of the film “1776” to see an example of how music can be incorporated into a play.
Learners will have access to the following resources:
PowerPoint
HyperStudio
The learners play will be video taped so that they can evaluate their own production.