<p>Resources for SS.5.4.3.1k and SS.5.4.4.1a</p><p>These resources can be found online:</p><p>One if By Land, Two if By Sea is a lesson plan about Lexington and Concord. What do students know about Lexington and Concord, the Old North Church, or the historical poem Paul Revere’s Ride? The poem tells of the effort to warn 18th-century Boston-area colonists of the approach of British forces. This lesson introduces various places and an event associated with the American Revolutionary War. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/17/g35/landsea.html</p><p>The Road to Revolution Game is an interactive multiple choice quiz for students about the events leading up to the Revolution. http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/road.html</p><p>America’s Story: Revolutionary Period 1764-1789 at the Library of Congress is an interactive story line about events and people in American history. The text is easy to read and includes links to documents in the Library of Congress. http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/revolut</p><p>Benjamin Franklin is a site based on a PBS special. It has an awesome interactive page for students that includes links to How Shocking, Ben’s Town, Worldly Ways, Virtue Quiz, and Make a Kite. http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/explore.html</p><p>American Revolution for Kids is a site created by a 5th grade classroom. It has a great illustrated timeline of events and links to lots of information, all created by students. http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/revolution/revolution.htm</p><p>Fort Necessity National Park site has links to teacher lesson plans and student activities including interactive stories and a timeline. The site is adding more information as it is developed leading up to the broadcast. http://www.nps.gov/fone/classroom/fiwar/index.htm</p><p>Samuel Adams from the White House for Kids site provides biographical information on this founding father. http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/dreamteam/samueladams.html</p><p>These resources can be found at the Instructional Resource Center: American History Simulations, by Max Fischer (Call No. SSS 973 FIS) includes the simulation, The King’s M&M’s, that helps students understand Colonial America’s reaction to the Stamp Act.</p><p>Our Living Constitution, Then and Now, by Jerry Aten (Call No. SSS 342 ATE).</p><p>We the People, from the Center for Civic Education (Call No. SSS342 WET).</p><p>Adventures in Economics and U.S. History, Volume 2, by Suzanne Gallagher (Call No. SSS 330 GAL). This volume includes great lesson plans tying economics and history together. Three lesson plans related to this chapter include Which to be? Tory or Patriot?, The American Revolution: One Tax Too Many, and Why were the Colonies frustrated with England?</p><p>The following are good trade books to use in class: Guns for General Washington, by Seymour Reit (Call No. F-5 REI).</p><p>The Fighting Ground, by Avi (Call No. F-5 AVI).</p><p>War Comes to Willy Freeman, by James Lincoln Collier (Call No. F-5 COL).</p><p>April Morning, by Howard Fast (Call No. F-5 FAS).</p>