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The following list of research and activity ideas is intended to offer suggestions for complementing social studies and history curricula, to trigger additional ideas for enhancing learning, and to suggest cross-disciplinary projects for library and classroom use.

Activity 1: A "live" historical event

Assigment: For a school assembly program dramatize an important event of the Revolutionary era. Base your dramatization on historical facts, although you are free to use your own dialogue and interpretation when necessary. Your goal is both to inform and entertain your audience. You must also involve each member of the class in the project.

Preparation: The first task is to choose an historical event. Possibilities include the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, or George Washington crossing the Delaware. To make a decision you might put the question to a class vote. Once you...