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5th Grade Technology Project
• Students will focus on the Essential
Question
• What happened between Britain and the
colonies to lead to a war?
Components
• PowerPoint Presentation
• Microsoft Pamphlet
• Microsoft Web Page
Component #1
• PowerPoint Presentation
– students use a template and demonstrate
their knowledge of the important events of
that time period
– Students will use the template and fill in the
descriptions and details
– students will create comprehension
questions and answers about their
information
PowerPoint Presentation
• technology extension activities include
changing graphics and transitions
• GATE extension activities are included
• Resource students can fill in the blanks
while viewing the teacher sample
Component #2:Microsoft
Publisher Pamphlet
• students will create a newspaper account of a
famous individual’s contribution to the history
of the time period.
• What event did he/she participate in? Why?
• Include a short biographical sketch of the
person
• Student can add political cartoons, ads,
weather, etc.
• GATE extension included
Component #3:Microsoft Web
Page
• as a class we will create an interactive
unpublished site
– includes classroom opinion poll
• What is the most important factor that caused
war?
– includes an individual page for each
student to write a persuasive paper about
why they choose that particular event as
the most important.
PowerPoint Presentation
• To view a student sample
• click here
The Road to the
American Revolution
Microsoft Pamphlet
• To view a student sample
• check out the next slide
Tea Dumped in Boston
Harbor!
Band of “Mohawks” dump 32 chests of Darjeeling off
Griffin’s Wharf! Colonists have joined together to
say “NO!” to the tax on tea. Will the king close our
harbor? How can we feed and house these new troops
in our homes? First stamps, then sugar, then tea…
what could be next?
British Troops Sent to Massachusetts!
Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
A town meeting is hereby called to discuss what is to be done with this serious state of
affairs we see in our midst today.
One in the afternoon today at the Boston Commons
Microsoft Web Page
• To view a student sample
• check out the next slide!
“Give me Liberty or Give me Death”
-Patrick Henry
American
Revolution
Homepage
Welcome to the homepage
of our American
Revolutionary War Project
in Mrs. Lavertu’s 5th
Grade Class. We welcome
you to visit the individual
pages to find out more
about what we’ve learned
through this project.
Standards Addressed
• 5.5 Students explain the causes of the
American Revolution.
1. Understand how political, religious, and economic ideas and
interests brought about the Revolution (e.g., resistance to imperial
policy, the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts, taxes on tea, Coercive
Acts).
2. Know the significance of the first and second Continental
Congresses and of the Committees of Correspondence.
4. Describe the views, lives, and impact of key individuals during this
period (e.g., King George III, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, George
Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams).
Possible Pitfalls
• Students need to be taught how to use PowerPoint
and Publisher before this project is begun.
Terrific Teaming:Technology & History
• Enjoy this journey into creating computer
enhanced student work
• Be sure to pass along new ways to use this
technique in our classrooms to other
teachers
• Save a copy of your class’s work to share
and show off during parent meetings like
Open House!
Thank you for your kind
attention
• You are welcome to come to me
for help anytime!
• Questions?