Keeping the Acts Straight: An Icon guide to the Sugar, Stamp, and Townshend Acts |
This activity requires students to document the specific of the Stamp Act and Townshend Act with icons. |
Use this Activity: |
| Explain/Brainstorm - Make a three-column heading on the whiteboard and label them Sugar, Stamp, and Townshend Acts. Call on students to fill in the chart with the specific products taxed as part of each act. Help students if necessary. Then, distribute the activity and tell students to draw a colorful icon for each product taxed within each act. These look great if your students maintain interactive notebooks. |
| Morning Work - This activity can serve as a fun start to the day or social studies class. |
| Part of a Lesson - This is a great way to teach and reinforce the specifics of each act. |
| Homework - This activity is a great way to assign homework in social studies or language arts. |
| Share - When students have completed the assignment, consider displaying the work. |
| Interactive Notebook - This assignment serves as a great entry in interactive social studies notebooks. |