Social+Studies-+Explorers

LINK to textbook website: The United States: Making a New Nation

Colonial Website for Buddies U.S. Citizenship Test

__**Revolutionary War **__

Liberty Kids Yorktown Video: Click Here--login is runyonus, runyonus Revolutionary War Game from Our Textbook: Click Here PBS Website on the Revolutionary War: Click Here

Chapter 9: Propaganda Poster Template: Click Here

__**Causes of the Revolutionary War **__

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Click Here to go to full Screen: Map Minutemen Park Site: Click Here BrainPOP on "Causes of the Revolutionary War: Click Here

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Social Studies for Kids Website: Click Here Awesome timeline of events with links to information about each event: Click Here Additional timeline with links: Click Here Massachusetts Historical Society: Coming of the Revolution-Click Here

__**<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">French and Indian War **__ <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">BrainPOP on French and Indian War: Click Here <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Informational website on the war: Click Here <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">PowerPoint Presentations for Kids: Click Here <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Information and Images of the War: Click Here <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">LOTS of Links for Sites about the War: Click Here <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">GAMES for the French and Indian War: Click Here

__**<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">13 COLONIES **__

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">13 Colonies Wiki Page <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">__13 Colonies Miniature Textbook__:

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">For this unit, the students are working in Chapter 5 of their textbook and they will be using informational texts in class.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Click here to see if you could have survived in a colony! Colonial Life Quiz

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">PBS has a fun, informational site about colonies...check it out! Colonial House

__**<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">EXPLORERS **__

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">For this unit, the students are working in Chapter 3 of their textbooks. The students have been working with an assigned partner on filling out a table in GoogleDocs. This table has the important explorers discussed in our book. This document will be important and helpful for the students on the open-note graded assessment at the end of this unit.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Here is a map of important explorer landmarks and routes:

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