| Location | Activity | Content |
| Bunker Hill | MPH activity (Math) | Terrain |
| The Battle of Lexington and Concord | Journal Entry: if you were a minute-man would you go. (Literacy) | Pic |
| Battle of Saratoga | Go to this website: http://www.mrnussbaum.com/amflash.htm Go to this web site and click on the interactive battles. Look at battles that have come before and after this point. This is the turning point in the war. (History) | Video |
| Battle of Trenton | Go to this website: http://www.doublegv.com/ggv/battles/Trenton.html read the article. After you have read the article write a short story on what it was like to be a soldier that night. (Literacy) | Pic |
| Battle of Yorktown | Go to this website: http://library.thinkquest.org/10966/data/yorktn.shtml read the information and summarize your findings into 2 paragraphs. (Research, Literacy) | Image Overlay of Yorktown |
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Content:
Grade 5 Standard 2 objective 2a
Plot a time line of the key events of the Revolutionary War.
The lesson focus is mainly on observation and analysis of new information. As the students watch and participate in the tour of the major battle locations of the Revolutionary war they will come across lots of new information, students will be required to analyze what they are learning and apply it in various forms such as journal entries and short stories. These activities are a good way to get students to be actively engaged in the learning process; while some things will be directly taught the students will also be required to search out and discover some things on their own. As the students complete the tour and work on the activities at each site, they will also fill in their own timeline of the key events/battles that occurred during the war. This pedagogy works well with the content as the students will be working actively to learn about each of the battles and then they will be able to meet the core standard by creating their own timeline.
We will be using Google Earth to create and present a tour of the locations of the main battles of the Revolutionary War. This technology works well for the lesson being taught as it allows the students to explore the different locations without having to actually go there. Students will be able to visualize what it is like at each of these locations as well as get an idea of where each battle location is in relation to the others. This also works well with the content as the battle locations will be visited in chronological order during the tour.
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