American Revolution Choice Inquiries
Level 1 (Choose 3 from this category):
 Investigate colonial hairstyles and share what you have learned.
 Create a concept map or diagram about something you have learned about the
American Revolution.
 Create a photo collage of the American Revolution.
 Using ifaketext.com, create a texting conversation between two people in the American
Revolution.
 Compare/contrast yourself with a key person from the American Revolution.
 Using wordle.net, create a word collage with key ideas from the American Revolution.
 Create a photo essay of an unsung hero of the American Revolution.
 Learn a colonial dance.
 Be an eye witness reporter and write a news article about an event in the American
Revolution.
 Learn to play a colonial instrument.
 Use Google Earth to visit the sites of battles during the American Revolution.
 Make a photo essay of the involvement of women in the American Revolution.
 Make a colonial cooking video.
 Make a newscast interviewing Africans and African Americans at different times
throughout the American Revolution.
 Write a colonial fashion blog.
 Make a timeline of events of the American Revolution.
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Level 2 (Choose 2 from this category):
 Build to scale something that represents something used during colonial times.
 Make a movie about an event of the American Revolution.
 Make a music video describing some aspect of life during the American Revolution.
 Explore and share examples of British and American propaganda during the American
Revolution.
 If “auto correct” existed during the American Revolution, how might primary sources
have been altered. Share some examples.
 Using people.uncw.edu, find a game show template and create a game about the events
of the American Revolution.
 Create a video diary following the life of one of the key people in the American
Revolution.
 Analyze and describe the change in a person throughout the American Revolution.
 Role play a debate between a Patriot and a Loyalist.
 Make a stop animation movie about an event in the American Revolution.
 Explore the role of leadership in the American Revolution. Compare/contrast this to
being a leader today.
 Create an American Revolution test to give to your classmates.
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Make a comic strip detailing the dialogue among two key people in the American
Revolution.
Debate who is the most influential person of the American Revolution.
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Level 3 (Choose 1 from this category):
 Design an American Revolution video game.
 Explore how the English language has changed since colonial times and explain why.
Make recordings to share examples of these changes.
 Investigate and explain how vaccines have evolved since the administration of the small
pox vaccine during the American Revolution.
 Find and share the changes of the United States Postal Service from its start to present
day.
 Create a map that follows the movement of a key person in the American Revolution.
Then create a map of another person and compare/contrast the movements of the two
people.
 Compare/contrast the American Revolution and another war in which America
participated.
 Hypothesize the answer to the following: If the American Revolution had today’s
technology, how would communication have changed the war? Give specific examples.
 Compare/contrast military weaponry then and now.
 Compare/contrast spies then and now.
 Be a fact checker and use other sources to check the American Revolution facts in the
social studies book. Create a scoring system or rubric to show your findings.
 Create Boston or Philadelphia at the time of the American Revolution.
 Explore and summarize how social/political issues of the American Revolution exist in
other countries today.
 Compare/contrast America’s dependence on other countries during the American
Revolution with America’s dependence on other countries today.
 Explore the similarities and differences between America as a developing country during
colonial times and other developing countries today.
 Explore human nature in the following way:
o Who is a modern day Benedict Arnold and why?
o Who is a modern day Ben Franklin and why?
o Who is a modern day George Washington and why?
o Who is a modern day Deborah Sampson and why?
o Who is a modern day James Armistead and why?
o Who is a modern day Hessian and why?
 Imagine if…. Hypothesize how the war would have ended if there was:
o No George Washington?
o No Fredrich Wilhelm Von Steuben?
o No French involvement?
o No Abigail Adams?