It’s Patriots’ Day! Resources for Learning About the Start of the American Revolution

Creating Google Earth tours of Revolutionary War fight sites is an activity that I did for lots of years with my U.S. History students. Students would produce multimedia placemarks for each fight in sequence.

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

The Massachusetts Historical Society uses fourteen lesson strategies 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..

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

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 first battles of the American Revolutionary War. As a great New Englander and a former U.S. History instructor, every year at this time I like to share a handful of resources for teaching and learning more about the American Revolution..

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

Pictures 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 American and British point of views, and occasions following the Revolutionary War.

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

Its a day to mark the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the very first battles of the American Revolutionary War. Developing Google Earth tours of Revolutionary War battle sites is an activity that I did for lots of years with my U.S. History students. Trainees would produce multimedia placemarks for each fight in series.

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