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Learning Activity 8-B-1: Local History Project
Final Project

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Learning Activity 3-D-2: Local Documents, Data, and Cartoons
You have a nice start and variety of resources for your project. The old census data is very interesting and informative. This gives students a look inside as to how families were in comparision to now and local populations. Thanks for your links and your explanation of each one. Chris

[] This site is of the McGinnley and McCully houses which are two of the local colonial houses that students will tour on their field trip during the history project's lesson on colonial life. Student scan view these original pictures and then compare and contrast them after viewing them in person. [] Illustration by Paul Revere on the Battle in Boston during the Revolution. I can use this illustration to have students get a real view of the battle. [] Website to explore data on colonial American life and gain insight on household populations and family structures. [] A look at George Washington's journal by reading a brief excerpt on his take on the war and strategies. I can use this for students to analyze and can interpret. [] Electronic fieldtrips that students can view on specific colonial life events reinacted by Colonial Williamsburg.

Learning Activity 4-D-1: Local Photos and Posters
== [] This site will allow students to get a recent view of the McGinley House to use with the Venn Diagram == []

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== This picture will allow the students to view a colonial kitchen and discover all the differences to a modern kitchen. ==

​ A map of the 13 colonies will be reviewed and students will identify those same places on a modern map.
== [] This link will allow students to read an actual copy from the Pennsylvania Gazette from 1750 and compare & contrast it to a modern newspaper ==

Learning Activity 5-D-1: Local Audio and Music // Very good-music and cover art will really help to make clear connections to this time period. CK .//
[]/ "Liittle Ones at Home" would be a wonderful cover and sheet music example of early american music to have students analyze and discover who the song was meant to influence. [] "Yankee Doodle" could be analyzed within groups and students could then draw their own cover sheet of what they think Yankee Doodle would have looked like and why? [] "Soldier's Wife" would be great to view and hear after discussing the roles women played while there husbands were away at war throughout American history not just during The Revolutionary War. [] "The Star Spangled Banner" is always discussed within our Revolutionary War unit but having the students analyze the sheet music and lyrics would be great for them to interpret and then reenact in their own way. I can see some of my students rapping the Star Spangled Banner and other doing a dance routine! [] "America the Beautiful" could be compared and contrasted to other partriotic tunes to gain a sense of importance in partriotic music and the role it played at certain times within US history.

Learning Activity 6-D-1: Local Video and Maps
[]-students will view this short introduction to colonial life and the importance of family and the role that each family memeber played in their survival. []-students will view a small film on Benedict Arnold when discussing traitors and their part of the revolutionary war and their impact on colonists. A mock trial will be conducted with the students playing the role of colonists and their role in a trial []-students will gain an understanding of the use of tobacco and in general the importance of cropping and proper usage of soil. []-students can compare and contrast the Williamsburg battle maps with other Revolutionary War maps []-can be used to illustrate the geography during ccolonial life as well as in comparison and contrast to present day North America

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