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Linking Content and Strategies

Doing simulations is a transferable skill that can be applied to many topics and disciplines. It is also one of many strategies for introducing students to colonial American history and the economic and political ramifications of loyalism and rebellion.

Journal: Apply This Strategy to Other Content Areas

Think about the applicability of this strategy (doing simulations) with some other topic in the history classroom. In your journal, describe an activity using this strategy that you might incorporate with a different history topic.

Journal: Apply Other Strategies to This Content Area

Think about other strategies that you could use to help students understand and internalize the difficult decisions colonists faced in Revolutionary War times. Consider the relative strengths and weaknesses of each approach in shaping an understanding of the relevant history. Describe the strategies in your journal.

To see a list of teaching strategies that could be applied to this and other topics in history, see Strategies.

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