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 teacher, every year at this time I like to share a handful of resources for teaching and finding out about the American Revolution..

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 trips of Revolutionary War fight websites 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.

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.

The Massachusetts Historical Society provides fourteen lesson strategies that are aligned to the theme of The Coming of the American Revolution. The lesson plans consist of a mix of document analysis activities and group conversation activities..

Producing Google Earth trips of Revolutionary War fight websites is an activity that I did for lots of years with my U.S. History students. Trainees would create multimedia placemarks for each battle in series.

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

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.

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

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