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

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

For Red Sox Fans!This is usually 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 video game.

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

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 fights of the American Revolutionary War. As a great New Englander and a previous U.S. History teacher, every year at this time I like to share a handful of resources for mentor and discovering the American Revolution..

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

Producing Google Earth trips of Revolutionary War battle sites is an activity that I provided for several years with my U.S. History trainees. Trainees would develop multimedia placemarks for each fight in series. The placemarks consisted of information about the outcome and significance of each fight. Heres a video on how to make a trip with the browser-based version of Google Earth.

Pictures of the Revolutionary War is a collection of images about the Revolutionary War. The images in the collection chronicle the stirrings of rebellion in the pre-revolution years, the war from both British and american point of views, and occasions following the Revolutionary War.

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

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

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