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Boston Tea Party Resources on MrNussbaum.com

Description: This video will describe how to use our Boston Tea Party activities.

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Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 +

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Causes of the Revolutionary War - Boston Tea Party

Description: This page describes the Boston Tea Party and its causes and effects.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

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Boston Tea Party - Short Description

Description: This is a short article on the Boston Tea Party for younger readers.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3

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Mob Etiquette? The Surprising Rules of the Boston Tea Party

Description: This articles describes the strict rules that governed the Boston Tea Party. Interesting and very surprising!

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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The Sons of Liberty

Description: This is an article on the formation, role, and effects of the Sons of Liberty.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

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What was the East India Company?

Description: This article discusses the history and power of England's East India Company, as well as the role it played in the Boston Tea Party.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

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Boston Tea Party United States Postage Stamp Coloring Page

Description: This is a coloring page featuring the 200th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party United States Coloring Page

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 +

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Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 377 Words; LEXILE: 910

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Behind the Scenes of the Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH = 416 words; LEXILE = 1210

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6, 7 +

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Behind the Scenes of the Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 416 words; LEXILE = 1210

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Sons of Liberty Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 373 Words; LEXILE: 1110

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Sons of Liberty Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 373 Words; LEXILE: 1110

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension - Online (Grades 2-4)

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and four multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4

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Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension (Grades 2-4)

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and four multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4

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Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension - Contextual Vocabulary Focus - Online

Description: This Revolutionary War/American Revolution resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension - Seqeuncing Focus - Online

Description: This Revolutionary War/American Revolution resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension - Main Idea Focus - Online

Description: This Revolutionary War/American Revolution resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension - Details Focus - Online

Description: This Revolutionary War/American Revolution resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 377 Words; LEXILE: 910

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Boston Tea Party Paragraph Paramedics

Description: Find and correct the spelling, punctuation, and usage errors in the paragraph. Click on the error and then type in the correction. Immediate feedback is given.

Type: Literacy Drill

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Virtual History Teacher - Grading a Boston Tea Party Test

Description: Students play the role of a virtual history teacher and must grade responses to three questions about the Boston Tea Party. Each response is incomplete, and students must fill in the missing information in the "response" section. Students can use the Boston Tea Party narrative for reference.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Boston Tea Party Fact or Fiction - Printable

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Boston Tea Party passage and then, to sort 11 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Boston Tea Party Fact or Fiction - Online

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Boston Massacre passage and then, to sort 11 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. The program gives immediate feedback.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Boston Tea Party Correct-me Passage

Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about the Boston Tea Party that has eight factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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The Tolerable Acts - Having Fun With the Intolerable Acts

Description: Students play the role as a member of Parliament who has serious concerns about the Intolerable Act. Instead, he or she argues that England should make immediate peace with the colonies by issuing a set of acts designed to reward them called the “Tolerable Acts.” Students must think of five acts that reward the colonists (such as Parliament erecting a statue of George Washington in front of Buckingham Palace).

Type: Social Studies Prompt

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Unfair Punishments - A Boston Tea Party Writing Prompt

Description: This writing prompts requires students to relate to the unfair punishments issued to the American colonists after the Boston Tea Party by detailing the most unfair punishment they've ever experienced, and the reasons why they were punished.

Type: Social Studies Prompt

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Boston Tea Party Activities Bundles - All of the Printable Activities on the Boston Tea Party from mrnussbaum.com

Description: This packet contains all of the printable activities on the Boston Tea Party on MrNussbaum.com

Type: Printable Units

Format: Printable Activity

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American Revolution Timeline - Online Game

Description: This fun and challenging game requires students to correctly order revolutionary war events along the timeline. Easy and Hard levels are available. Very fun, but very challenging.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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American Revolution Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5

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Ms. Information Games - Causes of the Revolutionary War

Description: Ms. Information is traveling the country trying to re-write history with her false information! Can you stop her? She has traveled to Philadelphia change the story of the events leading to the Revolutionary War. Use your knowledge of these causes to foil her plan once and for all!

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

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Not Boring Jeopardy - 13 Colonies Editiion

Description: This is a "jeopardy" like game on the 13 colonies. It's super fun for classrooms, individuals, or small teams, totally customizable.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Not Boring Jeopardy - American Revolution Edition

Description: This is a "jeopardy" like game on the American Revolution.. It's super fun for classrooms, individuals, or small teams, totally customizable. Uncheck "teams take turns" to make it more exciting for kids.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

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Tic Tac DOUGH - 13 Colonies Edition

Description: Modeled after the 1970s game show, TIC TAC Dough requires students to get 1,000 points, or, score "tic" and "tac" by choose a panel between 1-9 and answering multiple choice questions about the 13 colonies. Behind each panel is a number panel, the word "tic", the word "tac" or the dreaded dragon. If a student picks the panel with the dragon, the game is automatically over - just like the real gameshow.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Tic Tac DOUGH - American Revolution Edition

Description: Modeled after the 1970s game show, TIC TAC Dough requires students to get 1,000 points, or, score "tic" and "tac" by choose a panel between 1-9 and answering multiple choice questions about the Revolutionary War. Behind each panel is a number panel, the word "tic", the word "tac" or the dreaded dragon. If a student picks the panel with the dragon, the game is automatically over - just like the real gameshow.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

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Boston Tea Party Point Presentation

Description: This 14-slide power point presentation explains all about the Boston Tea Party, monopolies, and the Intolerable Acts. Perfect for American Revolution learning.

Type: Presentation

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Causes of the Revolutionary War - Stamp Act

Description: This page describes the causes, implementation, and effects of the Stamp Act of 1765.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

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Causes of the Revolutionary War - Townshend Act

Description: This page describes the causes, implementation, and effects of the Townshend Act.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

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Causes of the Revolutionary War - Boston Massacre

Description: This page describes the Boston Massacre and its causes and effects.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Causes of the Revolutionary War - First Continental Congress

Description: This page describes the formation of the First Continental Congress.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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