Mission 1: For Crown or Colony?
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Teacher Materials and Classroom Guide
Alignment to Utah Core
Utah educators and students can download the following videos from UEN’s eMedia | Copyright and Fair Use Information |
A Day in the Life
"A Day in the Life" presents eight stories of Williamsburg residents on one day in late May of 1774. While these programs were designed for classroom use, anyone interested in discovering what life was like in the eighteenth century. (~18min)
Africans in America - Part 02-Revolution
The second part of the PBS series covers the years 1750 – 1805 and focuses on the varied experiences of Black individuals, both slave and free, in the years preceding and during the Revolutionary War. Grades 9-12+ (1hr 26min 48sec) PBS Africans in America website.
American History for Kids: The Revolutionary War - Segment 01
A description of pre-revolutionary colonial times. (5min 20sec)
Field Trips to Yesterday. Colonial Times
Learn how the people in the American colonies lived, including what they ate, what they did for fun, and what it was like to be a child in Colonial times. (20min 51sec)
Field Trips to Yesterday. Historic Philadelphia
Viewers will get an entertaining and accurate glimpse of the events leading to revolution that occurred in Philadelphia. (19min 05sec)
Field Trips to Yesterday. The Road to Revolution
Viewers will learn the significance of the Stamp Act, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and other events that all led up to the Revolutionary War. (24min 39sec)
Freedom: A History of US
"Freedom" is the overarching theme of this sixteen-part series. This is a history of the United States as the unfolding, inspiring story of human liberties aspired to and won. (~26min)
Liberty! The American Revolution
A six-part PBS documentary about the birth of the American Republic and the struggle of a loosely connected group of states to become a nation. Grades 7-12 (~55min) PBS LIBERTY! The American Revolution web site
Liberty's Kids - 44 Episodes
This animated series teaches young people about the major events that occurred during the Revolutionary War days. Grades 3-9 (~ 28min)
The Road to Revolution 1763-1774
Examines the events that lead up to the Revolutionary War. (15min 17sec)