For Red Sox Fans!This is normally the day that the Boston Marathon is held and the Red Sox play a morning game. That tradition has returned this year! For my fellow Red Sox fans heres a popular clip from the 2007 Patriots Day game.

Mr. Betts has a YouTube channel on which he posts cartoons and song parodies to teach U.S. History lessons. Heres one he did about the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

Developing Google Earth trips of Revolutionary War field of honor is an activity that I provided for several years with my U.S. History students. Students would create multimedia placemarks for each battle in series. The placemarks contained info about the result and significance of each fight. Heres a video on how to make a tour with the browser-based variation of Google Earth.

Refresher course has a comprehensive series on U.S. History. Consisted of in that series is Taxes & & Smuggling – Prelude to Revolution.

The Massachusetts Historical Society provides fourteen lesson plans that are lined up to the style of The Coming of the American Revolution. The lesson strategies include a mix of file analysis activities and seminar activities..

Video LessonsKeith Hughes has a popular video in which he discusses the American Revolution for intermediate school and high school students.

Today is Patriots Day here in Maine, in Massachusetts, and in a handful of other states. Its a day to mark the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the very first battles of the American Revolutionary War. As an excellent New Englander and a previous U.S. History instructor, every year at this time I like to share a handful of resources for mentor and discovering the American Revolution..

Its a day to mark the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first battles of the American Revolutionary War. Creating Google Earth trips of Revolutionary War battle sites is an activity that I did for lots of years with my U.S. History trainees. Trainees would create multimedia placemarks for each battle in sequence.

Images of the Revolutionary War is a compilation of images about the Revolutionary War. The images in the collection chronicle the stirrings of disobedience in the pre-revolution years, the war from both British and american perspectives, and events following the Revolutionary War.