THE REVOLUTIONARY TIME PERIOD
SOCIAL STUDIES STRANDS
AND ACTIVITIES
JAMIE KING
BEN LEACH
ED 417-01
HELMS
3/05/02
TABLE OF CONTENTS
STRAND ONE
AMERICAN HERITAGE………………………………………………… 4-5
STRAND TWO
PEOPLE IN SOCIETIES……………………………………………….. 6-7
STRAND THREE
WORLD INTERACTIONS……………………………………………… 8-9
STRAND FOUR
DECISION MAKING AND RESOURCES………………10-11
STRAND FIVE
DEMOCRATIC PROCESS …………………………………………12-13
TABLE OF CONTENTS CONT.
STRAND SIX
CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES……14-15
STRAND SEVEN
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY…………………16-17
AMERICAN HERITAGE
ACTIVITIES
1. Students will engage in Selected Silent Reading for 30
minutes reading books on the Revolutionary War.
2. Students will make a timeline of important events
proceeding the Revolutionary War.
3. Students will make a word of the term “heritage” to find
out what it means.
4. Students will illustrate pictures that shows how lifestyles
have changed over the past two hundred years.
5. Students will create a vintage museum within the room
to display their artwork.
WEBSITES
http://www.moah.org/
http://www.americanwestcenter.org
http://www.charteroaktree.com/farmingtonamistadtour.html
http://www.autry-museum.org/
http://homepages.ius.edu/PGALVIN/elizabeth/revoldress/etweb.html
PEOPLE IN SOCIETY
ACTIVITIES
1. Students will make predictions on why various culture
groups settled where their did in the New Land.
2. Students will recognize the diverse society by making
a chart describing the characteristics of different groups
and people in the community.
3. Students will participate in a dress up day displaying the
fashions of the Revolutionary time period.
4. Students will read the book, Black and White, to
understand the struggles of African Americans during this
time period.
5. Students will research the relationships between settlers
and Native Americans.
WEBSITES
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/
http://www.multied.com/revolt/
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/index.html
http://www.ukans.edu/~ibetext/rev/
http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/3803/
WORLD INTERACTIONS
ACTIVITIES
1. Students will color in and identify the 13 original colonies on
a United States map provided by the teacher.
2. Students will use Odyssey Globe to obtain a better
understanding of the great distances the settlers traveled
in order to reach the New Land.
3. Students will explore the concept of region by using a map
to illustrate the boundaries of a neighborhood and
suggesting how it may be defined.
4. Students will create a chart to illustrate examples of air,
land, and water usage during this time period.
5. Students will cite examples of how different the colonies
satisfied wants through use of resources.
WEBSITES
http://www.earlyamerica.com/
http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/house/
http://eagle.vsla.edu/colonial/
http://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/
DECISION MAKING AND RESOURCES
ACTIVITIES
1. Students will brainstorm about how people acquired money
as a class discussion.
2. Students will form different colonies within the room and be
responsible for forming a new government system for their
colony.
3. Students will research and then role play the Declaration of
Independence.
4. Students will complete a worksheet comparing the
differences of currency from then to now.
5. Students will read the book, Reasons for War, by Sky Manly.
WEBSITES
http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html
http://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html
http://www.seanet.com/Users/pamur/colo.html
http://www.50states.com/statehood1.htm
http://www.talktogov.com/guest_abcgovernment.htm
DEMOCRATIC PROCESS
ACTIVITIES
1. Students will participate in a mock presidential election.
2. Students will make a word web on the term “democracy”.
3. Students will link examples of governmental actions with
the purposes of local government by completing a worksheet.
4. Students will research and report the different political
parties.
5. Students will write a journal entry stating what political
party they represent and why.
WEBSITES
http://www.campaignline.com/
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/election/
home.html
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/
http://www.pbs.org/democracy/kids/
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/home.html
CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBLITIES
ACTIVITIES
1. Students will research and present, in groups, the rights of
all American citizens which are contained in the Constitution.
2. Students will make mock amendments to the Constitution as
a class.
3. Students will read the book, So You Want To Be President,
by Judith St. George.
4. Students will model citizenship traits obtained through
extensive research.
5. Students will watch, School House Rocks, and enjoy it.
WEBSITES
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/declaration/decmain.html
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/declaration/main.html
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/stone.htm
http://www.presidentjefferson.com/
http://www.citizen.org.uk/
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY,
AND SOCIETY
ACTIVITIES
1. Students will research famous inventors for the
Revolutionary period. They will present to class.
2. Students will play the game, Oregon Trial, and like it.
3. Students will compare and contrast the different forms of
transportation.
4. Students will take a field trip to COSI, Columbus, Ohio, without
getting car sick.
5. Students will bake a cake using only human hair, sheep
pellets, and goat milk and like it.
WEBSITES
http://www.inventorsmuseum.com/
http://www.howard.k12.md.us/socst/8-essent.htm
http://www.lai.org/library/keynotes/LAIKNNov2001.pdf
http://www.lynximages.com/americanhistory.htm
http://cosi.org/index.html