Angelica C.

Jonathan K.
Activity Design Plan
Activity Objective:
The students will review key events and terms from the American Revolution to Westward
Expansion by answering Jeopardy questions.
Description of Activity:
The students will be split up into two teams dividing the class. They will take turns playing
Jeopardy with five categories based on the American Revolution to Westward Expansion.
Motivation:
Extrinsic- The students will play for candy and bragging rights as class champions. The winning
team will have first pick of the candy, the opposing team will then pick after.
Intrinsic- The students will have reviewed what they have learned to that point in the class.
Directions:
Students will stay in their assigned seats while the teacher divides them into two separate groups
(Team A and Team B). Each student will have a turn in order of where they sit. One student from
each team will come up to the front of the classroom and go head to head. Team A will chose the
category first and then the rounds will alternate after that. If that student did not answer correctly,
or takes too long to answer, the student whose turn it was on the other team got the chance to
steal the question. If they answer correctly, their team gets the points. If they answer incorrectly,
no one gets the points. Either way, the student who is trying to "steal" the question still gets his
own turn after he tried to answer the other team's question. We would just keep going back and
forth and almost every time, it would come down to the last question or two.
Before we start we will check for understanding and then the game will start.

Active Participation:
The students will be actively participating in the Jeopardy game because they have the option to
steal points if the other team does not answer the question correctly. The transition between
rounds will be minimized because the students object is to answer as many questions as possible
so time shouldnt be wasted. If the students get too loud then the teacher will bring them back
down by using the auditory signal Hey You Guys and the students will respond Goonies never
say die!
Expectations of Student Behavior:
The students will be respectful and good sports while playing Jeopardy. The only time they
should be out of their chairs is when they are coming up to the front of the class to play. They
will also remain quiet while the students are up to play.
Materials/Resources Needed:
Jeopardy Game
Projector and screen
Candy
Modeling:
The teacher will model how a round of Jeopardy will go by going through the motions of sitting
down and getting up to the front of the class and selecting a category and question. The teacher
will model how to answer. Then they will show how the other team can steal the points.
Sources:
Jeopardy game generator

Questions
The British Are
Coming!

All the
Presidents Men

Wild West

Americana

The
Revolutionary
War
After this early
battle,
Americans
retreated over
Charlestown
Neck

On April 19,
1775 700
British troops
reached this
town near dawn
where they were
awaited by 70
minutemen.
In 1815 we took
a little trip to
this city where
the British
lacked Bon
temps

This man was

the first
impeached
President, in
1868

Contrary to TV,
in the 1st year on
the Oregon Trail
no wagon train
was attacked by
them

This South
Dakota National
memorial is
known as The
Shrine of
Democracy

This Eighth
President served
only a single
term.

The purpose of
the spring
roundup was to
do this to as
many calves as
possible

He wrote the
Tell-Tale
Heart when he
lived in
Philadelphia &
a brick house he
rented there is
an historic site

On the evening
of April 18,
1775 Robert
Newman
displayed 2
lanterns in this
Boston structure

This British
King was
purported to
have written
nothing
important
happened
todayon July 4,
1776
This Sir was
the final
Commander of
British forces
during the
American
Revolution.

This President
was the only
one who never
married.

Only 2 days
after this service
began the Pony
Express came to
an end

On May 14,
1804 this duos
Corps of
Discovery
started up the
Missouri on a
fact-finding
mission

In 1774 the
owner of the
Peggy Stewart
was forced to
burn his ship
and its 2000pound cargo of
this taxed item

This two term

president
penned the
Federalist
Papers with
Alexander
Hamilton and
John Jay.

This Act
encouraged
people to move
West

This novel by
Harriet Beecher
Stowe was
published in
1852 and was a
best seller
second only to
The Bible

The world
turned upside
down at this
surrender,
October 19,
1781.

Serving as both
the 22nd and 24th
President this
man is the only
person elected
nonconsecutively

The Location
where the
completion of
the
Transcontinental
Railroad was
celebrated

This monument
in Georgia is a
National Park
and the rebirthplace of the
Ku Klux Klan

On September
23, 1779 he and
his men
successfully
attacked a
British convoy
off
Flamborough
Head in the
North Sea
After the defeat
at Yorktown,
Gen. Charles
OHara, acting
for this man,
gave his sword
to the
Americans

Revolutionarie
s
After his April
1775 ride, he
rescued papers
from a
Lexington
tavern
belonging to
John Hancock
Last name of
Declarationsigning
Virginian
brothers Richard
& Francis; a
later relative
was a Southern
General
This immigrant
captured British
cannon in New
York and would
later serve as the
first Secretary
of the Treasury
In 1777, while
serving in Paris,
this
Pennsylvanian
wrote that Our
cause is the
cause of all
mankind.
This spy for
Hercules
Mulligan was an
agent in the
Culper Ring of
New York City

Answers
The British Are
Coming!
Lexington,
Massachusetts
New Orleans
Who is King
George III
Sir Guy
Carleton
The Surrender
at Yorktown

All the
Presidents
Men
Andrew
Johnson
Martin Van
Buren
James
Buchanan
James Madison
Grover
Cleveland

Wild West

Americana

The American
Revolution

Revolutionarie
s

Indians

Bunker Hill

Paul Revere

Brand

Mount
Rushmore
Edgar Allen Poe

Lee

Telegraph

Lewis and Clark

The Old North

Church
Tea

The Homestead
Act
Promontory
Point, Utah

Uncle Toms
Cabin
Stone Mountain

John Paul Jones

Cornwallis

Alexander
Hamilton
Benjamin
Franklin
Cato