Results Of The American Revolution

Students will use non-fiction trade books, Internet, and video clips to identify the, economical and political effects of the American Revolution.

Activity Description:
Students work in cooperative groups to make a layered book to identify and distinguish political and economic results of the war.

General knowledge of the American Revolutionary War; is able to tell the difference between political and economic events.

1. The teacher introduces the terms “political” and “economical’
2. Examples, an economical situation that occurred after the war was Shays Rebellion, the farmers couldn’t pay their debts and were being sent to jail. A political event that happened after the war was the Sedition Bill, this threatened the First Amendment to the new Constitution
3. In cooperative groups students research events happening after the war in America and England, and compile a list to share with the whole class.
4. In whole class setting the teacher list on the overhead, giant note pad, black board etc., 20 to 30 events that the students have found.
5. In cooperative groups students identify the events as economical, political, and decide if any overlap and could be either or both.
6. Each group will make two layered books, one identifying political events, one identifying economic events.

1. Classroom discussion
2. Observation of cooperative groups
3. Layered

Cross-Curricular Connection
Economics, Language Arts, Art, Science (enrichment)

Enrichment;
Project from Way That Work by, Tarry Lindquist page 153 Constitutional Visitors, connects the Constitution, Civics, Social Studies, Science. This is a step by step outline for an integrated unit that:
1. Students create space colonies
2. The space colonies eventually get to gather in a classroom biosphere as their own Constitutional Convention, 3. The colonies create a space nation using the U.S. Constitution as a model. (This is about a four week unit.)