American Revolution
trading card
challenge
American Revolution Trading Card Challenge
Students will work in teams of three or four to research and create Trading cards of important people, places/battlefields, and events in the American Revolution. Students will work together analyzing primary sources, planning their project, researching the answers to guiding questions, and creating an artifact. In your project you will conduct in depth research about these different aspects of the American Revolution, design and create trading cards for them, and design a card gaming system for your different decks. This Challenge will consist of four missions and each mission must be completed before the group can begin the next mission. Your time line for completion will be the length of the unit. The missions are described below:
Mission 1 – Primary Source Analysis. In this mission your group will analyze the primary sources provided on the class website. The preferred method to use is the SOAP method (source, occasion, audience, purpose). Answer these four questions about the document, and then write a strong paragraph explaining the significance of the document in context with the historical events surrounding it. Each member of the group should analyze one document each. Once this assignment is complete, you can move to mission two. The primary sources are listed below:
Students will work in teams of three or four to research and create Trading cards of important people, places/battlefields, and events in the American Revolution. Students will work together analyzing primary sources, planning their project, researching the answers to guiding questions, and creating an artifact. In your project you will conduct in depth research about these different aspects of the American Revolution, design and create trading cards for them, and design a card gaming system for your different decks. This Challenge will consist of four missions and each mission must be completed before the group can begin the next mission. Your time line for completion will be the length of the unit. The missions are described below:
Mission 1 – Primary Source Analysis. In this mission your group will analyze the primary sources provided on the class website. The preferred method to use is the SOAP method (source, occasion, audience, purpose). Answer these four questions about the document, and then write a strong paragraph explaining the significance of the document in context with the historical events surrounding it. Each member of the group should analyze one document each. Once this assignment is complete, you can move to mission two. The primary sources are listed below:
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Mission 2 – Make the Plan. In this mission, you will work together as a team to create a plan on completing the challenge. At this time, you will read over the instructions for the entire challenge. You will need to brainstorm about what missions 3 and 4 will require you to do, and place this plan in a written format. This will require you to do the following:
1. Write a paragraph explaining what the goal of your challenge is, what you plan to do, and what a successful challenge completion will look like.
2. Complete a time line of when you will have the challenge completed.
3. Assign each member of the group one of the time period “decks” to work on. The time periods are listed below:
Casus Belli – This deck should use people, places/battlefields, and events starting from the Proclamation of 1763 up to April 19th of 1775 with the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
Early Struggles – This deck should include people, places/battlefields, and events starting from May of 1775 to December of 1776 with Washington Crossing the Delaware
Turning Points – This deck should include people, places/battlefields, and events starting from January of 1777 to February 23rd of 1779 with the capture of Vincennes in the Western theater
Final Countdown - This deck should include people, places/battlefields, and events starting from March of 1779 to September 3rd of 1783 when the Treaty of Paris is signed.
Mission 3 – Research. In mission three you will need to conduct research on the guiding questions for this assignment. These questions will need to be researched online, or with your textbook, or primary sources you have at your disposal. Each question should be written with its answer, and give a citation to where you found the answer. Give the actual website, not just “Google”. Using your Google docs you can compile your answers onto one document and submit them to me online. Once this is complete, you will move on to your final mission.
Each “deck” will have the same questions, so students should work together to cover each time period (one student answers these questions for Casus Belli 1754-1775). Here are the guiding questions:
1. Name five important people from this time period of the revolution, and explain their significance.
2. Name five important battles/places from this time period of the revolution, and explain their significance.
3. Name five important events from this time period of the revolution, and explain their significance.
For a Person
· Brief biographical statistics (date of birth/death, location of birth, spouse, children, etc.
· Focus on the highlights of that person’s life
· Their significance and connection to the American Revolution.
For a battle/place:
· Date of Battle, military leaders for both sides, number of casualties, tactics, strategy, etc.
· For a place, explain its importance, and how it relates to the conflict
· Focus on the highlights of the battle and its significance to the American Revolution. (Who won, what it meant to win/lose, decisiveness)
For an event
· Details of the topic(date, location)
· its significance to the American Revolution
· Why should this event be remembered
Mission 4 – Artifact Creation. Your last mission in this challenge will require you to create four card decks from the American Revolution. You can use an online card editor to help you with this. One is located in the link below:
Trading Card Creator
You can choose a different card generator, or make them the old fashioned way, by hand. Each member of the group should choose a deck to work on (Casus Belli, Early Struggles, Turning Points, or Final Countdown). Each deck should have five (associated with) British and Five (associated with) American cards for a total of ten cards per deck. Each group member will research and create cards based on 4 different periods of the Revolution. They are as follows:
Casus Belli – This deck should use people, places/battlefields, and events starting from the Proclamation of 1763 up to April 19th of 1775 with the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
Early Struggles – This deck should include people, places/battlefields, and events starting from May of 1775 to December of 1776 with Washington Crossing the Delaware
Turning Points – This deck should include people, places/battlefields, and events starting from January of 1777 to February 23rd of 1779 with the capture of Vincennes in the Western theater
Final Countdown - This deck should include people, places/battlefields, and events starting from March of 1779 to September 3rd of 1783 when the treaty of Paris is signed.
On the card, try to include information that shows which side the card is on, and some of the information below:
For a Person
· Brief biographical statistics (date of birth/death, location of birth, spouse, children, etc.
· Focus on the highlights of that person’s life
· their significance and connection to the American Revolution.
For a battle/place:
· Date of Battle, military leaders for both sides, number of casualties, tactics, strategy, etc.
· For a place, explain its importance, and how it relates to the conflict
· Focus on the highlights of the battle and its significance to the American Revolution. (Who won, what it meant to win/lose, decisiveness)
For an event
· Details of the event
· its significance to the American Revolution
*For a bonus 10 points, you can create a game system to go with your cards
Presentation
Once you have created these cards, and some sort of game system to correspond with it if you want bonus points, you will get to play your game. You will present 3 cards from each deck to the class. If you create a game system, show the students how to play the game.
Below is a template for the timeline and a rubric for grading.
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