Beth Rados
Date: October 20, 2000
Grade Level: 5th

Teacher Materials:
- The movie, 1776
- VCR, TV

Student Materials:
- Declaration of Independence Internet Scavenger Hunt
- Computer w/web page directory
- The Journal of William Thomas Emerson, by Barry Denenberg

Focus & Review:
After students have read the book, The Journal of William Thomas Emerson, discuss what life would have been like in Massachusetts before the War.  Review the factors that brought about the revolution.  Introduce the Declaration of Independence.

Objectives:
12.1 Identify people, symbols, and events associated with the heritage of the United States, Canada, and Latin America.

11.3 Evaluate the effects of change on the lives of the people of the United States, Canada, and Latin America.

Teacher Input:
The teacher will tell the students that they will be doing an Internet scavenger hunt.  They will be searching for the answers from the web.  There are specific sites that they may use.

Guided Practice:
The teacher will lead the students to find the answer to the first question. (When and where was the Declaration of Independence created?)

Independent Practice:
1. The students will finish the scavenger hunt.
2. They will then draw a picture of what they think the signing of the Declaration of Independence would look like.
3. Finally, the students will complete a word search that has all of the people who signed the Declaration of Independence.

Closure:
The students will watch a clip from the movie, 1776, which shows the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
 
 

Web Sites about the Declaration of Independence
 

http://library.thinkquest.org/11683/heroes.html

www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/revwar-75.htm

www.dell.homestead.com/revwar/files/DECLARA.htm

http://earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/freedom/doi/index.html

www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/decindep.htm
 
 
 

The Declaration of Independence
An Internet Scavenger Hunt

1. When and where was the Declaration of Independence created?
 
 

2. Who was the first person to formally propose independence from Britain to the Continental Congress?
 

3. Who were the five people who were on the committee to draft the Declaration?
 
 

4. Write three facts about each of these famous people:

Thomas Jefferson
 
 

John Adams
 
 

Abigail Adams
 
 

Benjamin Franklin
 
 

John Hancock
 

5. On a separate piece of paper, write the first two paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Signers of the Declaration of Independence