SOCIAL STUDIES
TECHNOLOGY
PROJECT
8th Grade American
History
By: Andrew Rice
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Ohio Social Studies Strands:
History
People in Societies
Geography
Economics
Government
Citizenship Rights & Responsibilities
Social Studies Skills & Methods
Science Technology & Society
HISTORY
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HISTORY ACTIVITIES
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 Revolutionary War
Scavenger Hunt
 Click on the Minuteman
statue
 Click on each highlighted
word to help you find the
correct answer
 If you answer all the
questions correctly, you win
INDEPENDENCE!
 http://mrspskids.tripod.com/
rwhunt.html
HISTORY ACTIVITIES
 Colonial Williamsburg
 Click on box to take a
virtual tour of the
historical buildings
 Notice the types of
clothing worn during
the colonial era
 Write an essay the
different jobs people did
in 18th century Colonial
Williamsburg
 http://www.history.org/e
xperience/
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HISTORY ACTIVITIES
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 Today in History
 Click on the calendar
 Read about the
historical events that
occurred on that day in
history
 Choose an event that
happened during the
Colonial era for further
study
 http://rs6.loc.gov/amho
me.html
HISTORY ACTIVITIES
 The Boston Massacre
 View Paul Revere’s
most famous engraving
 Is his engraving of the
Boston Massacre a form
of political propaganda?
 http://www.earlyameric
a.com/review/winter96/
massacre.html
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HISTORY ACTIVITIES
 Salem Witch
Museum 1692
 Click on the Witch
 Were the people
accused of being
witches in Salem
really evil?
 http://www.salemwit
chmuseum.com/
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PEOPLE IN SOCIETIES
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PEOPLE IN SOCIETIES
ACTIVITIES
 Oneida Indians
 Click on Indian attacking
British soldier
 Learn about the Oneidas and
the birth of the American
nation
 In what battle did the Oneida
Iroquois fight alongside with
patriots during the
Revolutionary War?
 http://www.oneidanation.net/framestestright.html
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PEOPLE IN SOCIETIES
ACTIVITIES
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 African Americans
 Click on Soldier
 What role did African
Americans play during
the Revolutionary War?
 Were they really free?
 http://www.americanrev
war.homestead.com/files
/BLACKS.HTM
PEOPLE IN SOCIETIES
ACTIVITIES
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Puritans
Click on image
Read about the Puritans
Why did they come to
America?
 What are the differences
between the Puritans
and the Pilgrims?
 http://xroads.virginia.ed
u/~CAP/puritan/purhist
.html
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PEOPLE IN SOCIETIES
ACTIVITIES
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 Pilgrims
 Click on image
 Why did the Pilgrims
come to America?
 What are the differences
between the Pilgrims
and the Puritans?
 http://xroads.virginia.ed
u/~CAP/puritan/purhist
.html
PEOPLE IN SOCIETIES
ACTIVITIES
 Patriots & Loyalists
 Click on appropriate flags
 What were the Patriots’
beliefs concerning the
British?
 What were the Loyalists’
beliefs concerning the
British?
 Write an essay explaining
their different beliefs
 http://vmead.tripod.com/beli
efs.htm
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GEOGRAPHY
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GEOGRAPHY
ACTIVITIES
 13 Colonies Map
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 Click on Map
 How many colonies existed
in America before the
Revolutionary War?
 What geographic area was
the 13 original colonies
located in?
 http://earlyamerica.com/
GEOGRAPHY
ACTIVITIES
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 The 50 States
 Click on the name of
any State
 Find out interesting
facts about that
particular state
 Write a report on a state
other than Ohio
 http://www.teachersfirst
.com/share/states/
GEOGRAPHY
 Map of Famous Battles
of the American
Revolution
 Click on Battle Map
 Where were most of the
battles fought?
 http://memory.loc.gov/a
mmem/gmdhtml/armht
ml/armhome.html
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GEOGRAPHY
ACTIVITIES
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Geo-Globe
Click on Banner
Take a geography quiz
Learn where to find
locations of countries,
cities, rivers, lakes,
mountains, and famous
landmarks
 http://library.thinkquest.o
rg/10157/geoglobe.html
GEOGRAPHY
ACTIVITIES
 Map of 18th Century
England
 Consider the distance
between the 13 Colonies
and England
 Read on-line textbook
 Write a paper on why
Colonists felt separated
from the Motherland
 http://en.wikibooks.org/
wiki/US_History:Road_
to_Revolution
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ECONOMICS
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ECONOMICS
ACTIVITIES
 “No Taxation Without
Representation”
 Why did the Colonists
dislike paying taxes on
sugar, stamps, and tea?
 Read the eyewitness
account by a participant
in the Boston Tea Party
 http://www.historyplace.
com/unitedstates/revolut
ion/teaparty.htm
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ECONOMICS
ACTIVITIES
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 I Have No Money,
Would You Take
Wampum?
 Learn how people
received goods and
services before there
were coins and paper
money
 Click on wampum belt
 http://www.econedlink.o
rg/lessons/print.cfm?less
on=EM67
ECONOMICS
ACTIVITIES
 Escape from Knab
 Click on the moving planet
 Play the on-line economic
game
 If you make the right
economic choices, you can
return to planet Earth
 However, if you make the
economic choices, who knows
what may happen on the
strange and slimy planet
Knab!
 http://www.escapefromknab.
com/
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ECONOMICS
ACTIVITIES
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 Don’t Fence Me Out!
 Click on clothing
 Learn about the
barriers to trading with
other countries
 Do you like to buy and
wear imported clothing?
 http://www.econedlink.o
rg/lessons/print.cfm?less
on=EM68
ECONOMICS
ACTIVITIES
 Thanksgiving
Cyberchallenge
 What does Scarcity
mean?
 How did the Pilgrims
overcome this problem?
 Read about the
Pilgrims’ plentiful First
Thanksgiving
 http://www.apuritansmi
nd.com/ChristianWalk/
FirstThanksgiving.htm
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GOVERNMENT
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GOVERNMENT
ACTIVITIES
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The Mayflower Compact
Click on document
Read the document on-line
Did this document provide
the Pilgrims with a form of
written laws for living in the
new world?
 http://www.historyplace.com/
unitedstates/revolution/mayfl
ower.htm
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GOVERNMENT
ACTIVITIES
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 The Declaration of
Independence
 Who was the author?
 Write an essay that
gives Jefferson’s view on
the issue of slavery
 http://www.ushistory.or
g/presidentshouse/news/
inq022303a.htm
GOVERNMENT
ACTIVITIES
 First President of the United
States
 Click on Washington’s
picture
 Did President Washington
have a military career?
 Write an essay giving your
opinion on his decision about
crossing the Delaware
 http://www.whitehouse.gov/h
istory/presidents/gw1.html
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GOVERNMENT
ACTIVITIES
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 The Constitution
 Click on document
 Who were the authors
of this important
document?
 What does this
document mean to you
as an American?
 http://www.usconstitutio
n.net/constquick.html
GOVERNMENT
ACTIVITIES
 First Continental
Congress
 Who were its members?
 What did they
accomplish?
 Research and write an
essay on your local
Congressman
 http://www.u-shistory.com/pages/h650.
html
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CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS
& RESPONSIBILITIES
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CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS
& RESPONSIBILITIES
ACTIVITIES
 Immigration to America
(1607-1830)
 Why did so many
European immigrants
come to America?
 Why did the Pilgrims
and Puritans leave
England?
 http://www.bergen.org/
AAST/Projects/Immigra
tion/reasons_for_immig
ration.html
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CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS
& RESPONSIBILITIES
ACTIVITIES
 U.S. Citizenship Test
 Take the on-line U.S.
citizenship practice test
 Did you pass?
 If you could become a
citizen of another
country, which one
would you choose?
 http://www.rallyepointe.com/Opinion/citiz
enship.htm
CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS
& RESPONSIBILITIES
 Exercise your Right to
Vote!
 Click on the picture
 Why is voting so
important?
 If you could legally vote,
who would vote for in
the ’04 presidential
election?
 http://www.rockthevote.
com/
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CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS
& RESPONSIBILITIES
ACTIVITIES
 Political Endorsements in
Newspapers
 Read the Dayton Daily
Newspaper or USA Today
 Find political articles that
endorse a particular
candidate
 Do you agree with their
endorsements?
 http://www.usatoday.com/
CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS
& RESPONSIBILITIES
ACTIVITIES
 Fugitive Communities
in Colonial America
 Were all inhabitants of
America considered to
be citizens?
 Why were the Indians
and African Americans
excluded?
 http://earlyamerica.com
/review/2001_summer_f
all/fugative.html
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SOCIAL STUDIES
SKILLS & METHODS
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SOCIAL STUDIES
SKILLS & METHODS
ACTIVITIES
 Early American History
Crossword Puzzle
 Click on the title image
 Type in your answers by
using a computer
 http://www.earlyameric
a.com/crossword/curren
t/puzzle4.html
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SOCIAL STUDIES
SKILLS & METHODS
ACTIVITIES
 Lost Colony of Roanoke
 Search the WWW for
information about this
lost colony
 Write a report
publishing your findings
 http://projects.edtech.sa
ndi.net/grant/enigmas/r
oanoke.htm
SOCIAL STUDIES
SKILLS & METHODS
ACTIVITIES
 Spy Letters
 Read actual spy letters
of the American
Revolution
 Discover the spies’
secret methods to make
a letter
 Make your own spy
letter
 http://www.clements.um
ich.edu/spies/menu4.ht
ml
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SOCIAL STUDIES
SKILLS & METHODS
ACTIVITIES
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 American Revolution
Timeline
 Research facts and dates
at website
 Construct a timeline of
the American
Revolution
 http://www.historyplace.
com/unitedstates/revolut
ion/rev-early.htm
SOCIAL STUDIES
SKILLS & METHODS
ACTIVITIES
 Point of View
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 The Boston Massacre
 Compare Cap. Thomas
Preston’s personal account with
Samuel Adam’s anonymously
written personal experience
 Which person is telling the
truth?
 http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/175
11775/bostonmassacre/prest.htm
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY
& SOCIETY
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY
& SOCIETY ACTIVITIES
 Benjamin Franklin
 “Glimpses of the Man”
 Watch the Quicktime
Movie
 Scientist
 Inventor
 Statesman
 Make a picture
scrapbook of his
inventions
 http://sln.fi.edu/franklin
/rotten.html
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SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY
& SOCIETY ACTIVITIES
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 Chronology of Personal
Computers
 Research the computer
timeline from 1947 to
the present
 How does a personal
computer help you do
your school work?
 http://www.islandnet.co
m/~kpolsson/comphist/
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY
& SOCIETY ACTIVITIES
 Microsoft
 Read about Bill Gates’
life before Microsoft
 How does his Windowsbased computer
software help you
complete school
projects?
 http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~histo
ry/Gates.Mirick.html
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SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY
& SOCIETY ACTIVITIES
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 Apple Computers
 Who invented the first
Apple computer?
 What are the major
differences between an
Apple and IBM
computer?
 http://inventors.about.c
om/library/weekly/aa12
1598.htm
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY
& SOCIETY ACTIVITIES
 History of the Internet &
WWW
 Read about the origins of the
Internet & WWW
 What Vice President coined
the phrase: Information
Superhighway?
 Write an essay on how the
Internet has impacted your
life?
 http://www.netvalley.com/int
val1.html
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