Action-packed lessons – students perform in front of the class!
Create a human
timeline: A dozen years of grievances, 1763-1776
Lectures with
graphic organizers.
Documents: quotations, speeches, political cartoons.
Problem-solving: What if your school were run the way the British ran the colonies?
Write a
persuasive essay: “I am George Washington . . .”
Predict: Why the British should have won the war.
Women of the Revolutionary War.
Games galore, including “The Gong Show.”
Assessment:
Learn the logic of a multiple-choice test by playing “Honk if you hate history!”
Group
analysis: What were the ideals embedded in the Declaration of Independence? (How slavery contradicted those ideals.)
Evaluate: What was our revolution’s impact on the rest of the world?
Projects: Students teach the class.
Role-playing: If you were General Washington, what would you have done?
Homework on the internet.
Heavy on terms: “The ABCs of the American Revolution” (
recall terms).
“Can you talk like a patriot?” (
define terms).
“Let your classroom BLOOM!” (Using
Bloom’s taxonomy, explore terms in depth.)
Concludes with the
mother of all tests: 559 questions!
[Reverse designers: give a test at the beginning of every class.]
The American Revolution Toolbook includes:
- The Causes
- The Declaration of Independence
- The Revolutionary War
- The Leaders
- The Results
There are 559 test questions.
This is the mother of all tests on the American Revolution.
If your students can do well on our test . . . the state test should be a breeze!
Introduction page 12
Lesson #1 Lecture Once upon a time...“Mother England”
Lesson #2 Lecture What was the American Revolution?
Lesson #3 Graphic organizer The American Revolution
1. The Causes page 17
All of the lectures can be turned into a timeline . . .
Lesson #4 Graphic organizer The four causes of the American Revolution
Lesson #5 Lecture What was salutary neglect? What was mercantilism?
Lesson #6 Timeline The French & Indian War - Causes & Results
Lesson #7 Timeline The Proclamation of 1763 - Causes & Results
Lesson #8 Document The Proclamation of 1763
Lesson #9 Timeline The Sugar Act, 1764
Lesson #10 Document The Sugar Act, 1764
Lesson #11 Timeline The Currency Act, 1764, The Quartering Act, 1765, Stamp Act, 1765
Lesson #12 Document The Stamp Act, 1765
Lesson #13 Document The Stamp Act Congress, 1765
Lesson #14 Document The Virginia Resolves, 1765
Lesson #15 Document The Declaratory Act, 1766
Lesson #16 Timeline The Townshend Acts, 1767
Lesson #17 Document The Townshend Acts, 1767
Lesson #18 Document Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania, 1767 (by John Dickinson)
Lesson #19 Timeline The Tea Act and the Boston Tea Party, 1773
Lesson #20 Timeline The Intolerable Acts, 1774
Lesson #21 Document The Intolerable Acts, 1774
Lesson #22 Document The First Continental Congress, 1774
Lesson #23 Document “Give me liberty, or give me death!” (speech by Patrick Henry, 1775)
Lesson #24 Timeline Concord & Lexington
Lesson #25 Timeline The Second Continental Congress, 1775
Lesson #26 Document The Declaration of Rebellion, 1775
Lesson #27 Document Common Sense, 1776 (pamphlet by Tom Paine)
Lesson #28 Document Resolution for Independence, 1776 (Richard Henry Lee)
Lesson #29 Game “The Chronology Game” - put the events into chronological order
Lesson #30 Internet Interpret 8 famous cartoons about the American Revolution.
Lesson #31 Group analysis “What if your school were run the way the British ran the colonies?”
Lesson #32 Game “The Top Ten reasons why the colonists broke away from England”
Lesson #33 Student projects “Students teach the class!”
Lesson #34 Game “What caused the American Revolution?”
Lesson #35 Game “What caused the American Revolution?” (recall terms)
Lesson #36 Game “Can you talk like a patriot?” (define terms)
2. The Declaration of Independence page 63
Lesson #37 Lecture John Locke’s theories: Natural Rights and the Social Contract
Lesson #38 Chart John Locke’s theories: Reappear in the Declaration of Independence
Lesson #39 Document The Declaration of Independence is a set of ideals
Lesson #40 Game The Bell Game: “Name that Ideal!”
Lesson #41 Lecture “We hold these truths to be self-evident . . .”
Lesson #42 Group analysis Where did these truths come from?
Lesson #43 Group analysis “Life is like a rock group”:
Lesson #44 Lecture How the Declaration and Revolution inspired the world.
Lesson #45 Game “The ABCs of the Declaration of Independence” (recall terms)
Lesson #46 Game “Can you talk about the Enlightenment?” (define terms)
Lesson #47 Student projects “Students teach the class!”
3. The Revolutionary War page 75
Lesson #48 Graphic organizer The Revolutionary War can be broken down into 7 stages.
The most important: Causes, Turning Point, and Results.
Lesson #49 Game “Strengths & Weakness” - an assessment of the British and Americans
Lesson #50 Chart In a certain sense, George Washington was David fighting Goliath.
Lesson #51 Mapping As you tell the story, students color 16 places on a U.S. map.
Lesson #52 Game “The Forehead Game” - your partner gives clues, you guess the battle.
Lesson #53 Internet w/ maps Using maps of battles, student volunteers explain the battles.
Lesson #54 Game “Name that Battle!”
Lesson #55 Graphic organizer “The Revolutionary War - what, what, when, where, why - and how?”
Lesson #56 Game “The Revolutionary War”
Lesson #57 Group analysis “What would YOU have done?” - 20 situations, what actually happened
Lesson #58 Game “The ABCs of the Revolutionary War” (recall terms)
Lesson #59 Game “Three Battles” - the first, the last, and the turning point
Lesson #60 Research Using your textbook, figure out why there was a battle on this spot.
Lesson #61 Game A game for the great outdoors! Where was this battle?
Lesson #62 Student projects “Students teach the class!”
Lesson #63 Game “Can you speak like a patriot?” (define terms)
4. The Leaders page 99
Lesson #64 Game “Who am I?” 28 famous people. The class guesses who you are!
Lesson #65 Game Women of the Revolutionary War and The Bell Game
Lesson #66 Game The Great Race
Lesson #67 Document “Remember the Ladies” by Abigail Adams
Lesson #68 Quotations Great Quotations
Lesson #69 Film How to use Mel Gibson’s film, “The Patriot”
Lesson #70 Graphic organizer Compare Francis Marion (“the Swampfox”) and Banastre Tarleton
Lesson #71 Writing activity Expressive Essay: I am George Washington
Lesson #72 Writing activity Narrative Essay: I am George Washington
Lesson #73 Writing activity Informative Essay: I am George Washington
Lesson #74 Writing activity Persuasive Essay: I am George Washington
Lesson #75 Student projects “Students teach the class!”
5. The Results page 122
Lesson #76 Graphic organizer Four results of the American Revolution
Lesson #77 Game “The ABCs of the American Revolution” (recall terms)
Lesson #78 Game “Can you speak of victory?” (define terms)
Lesson #79 Debate How great was the American Revolution?
Teacher Toolbooks Are Complete Unit Guides
From “The Big Idea” to strategy and tactics.
We don’t give you good ideas, we give you complete lessons from A to Z.
Every 10 minutes, another lesson!
Don’t spend half the year on the American Revolution.
Using our lessons, any teacher can zoom through the American Revolution in just three weeks.
And students master the standards.
Everything you need.
If you have a textbook, fine.
If not, one workbook is all you need.
Affordable
You need only one workbook for the entire class! (It will last for years.)
Why teachers Love Toolbooks
· Active learning – students perform what they know in front of the class.
· Brief lectures with maps, timelines, and graphic organizers.
· A wide variety of games: action games, brain games, and more
· Heavy on group analysis!
· Homework on the internet!
· Each workbook concludes with the “Mother of all Tests.”
· No learning curve for the teacher
Why Curriculum Coordinators Love Toolbooks
· Learning by design
Students master your state standards.
· Building an academic vocabulary
Students build a Social Studies vocabulary.
· Writing across the curriculum
Students write narrative, informative, expressive, and persuasive essays.
· Multiple intelligences
Students perform what they know in front of the class.
· Assessment
Every workbook concludes with the “Mother of All Tests.”
· Success on standardized tests
Students discover the logic of a multiple-choice test.
Our lessons are based entirely on Bloom’s taxonomy:
Recall The ABCs game, Mars/Venus, The Last Man Standing, Honk if you hate history!
Interpret Interpret maps, timelines, charts, documents, speeches, quotations, and political cartoons
Apply Can you talk like an Egyptian? and What would you have done?
Analyze The Bell Game, The Great Race, The Gong show
Synthesize Life is like a rock group, The Great Debate
Evaluate Bloom! (This is pure Bloom’s taxonomy)
What our lessons do . . .
The Big Picture
Students develop a sense of what Social Studies is all about . . .
The Big Picture Graphic organizers
Timelines Timeline
Cause & Effect Causes & Effects
Compare & Contrast Venn diagram
Strengths & Weaknesses Name that Strength! (game)
Promote Literacy!
Students develop a Social Studies vocabulary . . .
Simple lectures with graphic organizers!
Define terms! Can you talk like … (game)
Identify people!
Analyze single sentences! The Bell Game
Student-centered activities
Help your students make it to graduation.
Students love competition . . .
Memory games The ABCs
Bell games The Bell Game
Blackboard games The Great Race
Board games
Guys v. Gals Mars/Venus
Games for the Great Outdoors
Skills development
Students learn how to . . .
Interpret a timeline
Interpret a map
Interpret a photo
Interpret a political cartoon
Interpret a quotation
Interpret a document
Interpret a film
Research on the internet
Research in the library
Critical Thinking
Working in groups, students analyze and solve problems . . .
Bloom! Practice in Bloom’s taxonomy
Life is like a rock group Boomers & Busters, Emotionals & Factoids, Out of the Box
What would you have done? Personalizing history
The Great Debate Rewarding the clever
Writing across the curriculum
Students practice writing essays . . . and then deliver a speech by a famous person!
A simple essay
The expressive essay!
The narrative essay!
The informative essay!
The persuasive essay!
How to edit an essay
Success on the state test!
Every workbook concludes with the “Mother of All Tests”
Students learn the logic of a multiple-choice test . . .
Read the test aloud! This is very helpful for students who freeze during a test.
Games for taking the test “Honk if you hate history,” “The Last Man Standing”
Take the test! Hundreds of questions – you’ll never run short.
Professional Development
There is no learning curve for teachers.
However, if you need workshops, we are ready and reasonable – 12 months a year.
Still have questions?
Call us at Performance Education: 1-800-539-1607
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