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🗺️ 5th Grade · Social StudiesD2.His.14.3-5Unit 4: The American Revolution

Taxes and protests

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🎯 Objective: Students explain colonial anger over British taxes.

Lesson outline

  1. Tax simulation.
  2. Discuss.
  3. Write.
  4. Exit: one tax.

Lesson 1 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

D2.His.14.3-5

C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards (NCSS) — typical US grade-level themes

🏁 Unit goals

  • Explain causes of the Revolution
  • Describe the Declaration of Independence and key events

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🧾 Sales tax calculator🦫 Encyclopedia: Countries🎉 Holidays⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “The American Revolution”

  1. Taxes and protests
  2. The Declaration of Independence
  3. Key battles and people
  4. Different perspectives

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