History 4th/5th: Indicator #5

History: Fourth and Fifth

Students will examine significant ideas, beliefs, and themes; organize patterns and events; and analyze how individuals and societies have changed over time in Maryland, the United States, and the world.

In the context of Maryland up to contemporary times and United States history through1790, students are able to do everything required at earlier grades and are able to:

 

Indicator # 5
Evaluate critical political, social, and economic issues and events that led to the American Revolution.

 

A short Internet film, documentary style, on the “Shot Heard Round the World” http://earlyamerica.com/series.html

 

You may want to begin your study of the American Revolutionary Period by using an Internet scavenger hunt        http://ericir.syr.edu/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Social_Studies/US_History/USH0033.html

 

A series of five lessons that explore the American Revolutionary period examining the basic causes, effects and outcomes http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec3/gr4/unit4/U4-G4-HEAD.html

 

A lesson plan that helps students examine the Stamp Act as a precursor to the American Revolution (to get to the lesson plan, click on the url below, then click on resources for teachers and students, then click on classroom tested lesson plans, then scroll down to find Colonial Reaction to the Stamp Act) http://www.history.org/history/index.html

 

A lesson plan that describes and helps the students to understand how people of the 17th and 18th century resisted the rule of England prior to the American Revolution (to get to the lesson plan, click on the url below, then click on resources for teachers and students, then click on classroom tested lesson plans, then scroll down to find 18th and 20th Century Forms of Resistance) http://www.history.org/history/index.html

 

A thematic unit on the Revolutionary War with 15 days of complete lesson plans http://people2.clarityconnect.com/webpages4/kcarsons/oconunit/index.htm

 

A lesson plan that assists students in viewing how the period before the American Revolution affected families (to get to the lesson plan, click on the URL below, then click on resources for teachers and students, then click on classroom tested lesson plans, then scroll down to find A Family Disrupted—The Randolph Family and the Coming Revolution)  http://www.history.org/history/index.html  

 

One if by land and Two is by Sea is Longfellow’s poem about the ride of Paul Revere.  This lesson plan will introduce various places and events of the American Revolutionary War    http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/17/g35/landsea.html

 

A simulation that helps students to understand the feelings and emotions of the Revolutionary Period http://ericir.syr.edu/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Social_Studies/US_History/USH0003.html

   


 
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