Description: This app lesson will expand elementary students’ knowledge of the American Revolution.
Instructional Objective: Students will learn about the events and various laws of the American Revolution in chronological order, as well as the important figures of the war and the geography of the 13 colonies and demonstrate their understanding via a trivia game.
Step 1: Students will use US History Timeline app in order to learn and review important events during the American Revolution.
Step 2: Students will use Ansel & Clair: Paul Revere’s Ride to learn about the important figures of this time. Students will use the puzzles and games to learn more about the acts, events, and people of the American Revolution.
Step 3: Students will use US War Trivia: Civil, Revolutionary and Modern to test their improved knowledge of the Revolution. First, students will be split into groups where they can practice and review information with this app collaboratively. Then, there will be a final competition among the class where the students will try to achieve the highest score in the class by the end of the class period. Students will submit screenshots of their final scores to the teacher.
Inspired by Patty Kramer