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The Boston Tea Party: American Colonists Protest New British Taxes by Throwing Tea in Boston Harbour: 12/16/1773

2 Lessons

1 hour 40 minutes 0 Enrolled

Overview

Each of your students may have a different degree of disability, and different needs. When working with deaf students, use video materials with subtitles and/or sign language. Use audio materials when working with visually impaired or blind students. Try to create materials in Braille as well. When working with dyslexic students, use materials with large text and a friendly format When working with an autistic child, keep in touch with his parents, they can help identify the learners’ needs. When working with children with other cognitive limitations, adapt the information to their processing capabilities. Familiarize yourself with the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL; https://teaching.cornell.edu/teaching-resources/designing-your-course/universal-design-learning), apply them in your lessons.

Includes

  • Materials:
  • historical documents about "The Boston Tea Party ",
  • video projector/interactive whiteboard,
  • laptop with Internet connection,
  • tablet/smartphone for each student (with screen reader apps activated for students with visual im-pairment/dyslexia),
  • Power Point presentation

Requirements

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Audience

  • Outcomes :
  • The students will use different resources and tools to obtain, select, creatively use the data about the Boston Tea Party, combining knowledge from different domains: history, cartog-raphy , design , art, IT.
  • They will make opinions regarding the consequences of the studied events.

What Will I Learn?

  • Objectives :
  • 1. The students will get basic knowledge about some of the causes, participants, location and consequences of the Boston Tea Party
  • 2. The students will place information about the Boston Tea Party in the temporal and geo-graphical context
  • 3. The students will research and create the scenario, costumes and stage for a short play about Boston Tea Party .
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