Even if you have your own homeschool curriculum to teach American History, chances are you’ve looked for something more engaging and fun to keep your kids engaged. Traditional textbooks may give you some of the required content, but what helps the learning stick is engaging games. Check out these fun American Revolutionary War activities in the American Revolution Interactive History Workbook for Kids!
Why Should You Teach the American Revolutionary War with an Interactive History Workbook?
First, teaching about the American Revolution with an interactive history workbook works! Yes, your kids will retain knowledge and stay motivated with the fun activities in the workbook.
1. Active Engagement
Gamifying learning increases engagement. When your kids are engaged, they are more motivated to learn and eager to finish their work! Game-based learning is not passive. In fact, it requires active participation. While reading passages, your kids are actively seeking answers to solve puzzles. Quite often, this means they read (and re-read) American Revolutionary War content without complaint!
2. Encourages Critical Thinking
Another benefit of gamifying learning is it requires your kids to think critically and make connections between pieces of information in the reading passages. Finding answers and solving puzzles requires text-dependent analysis. Doing this with a game is so much more intriguing than simply reading a textbook and answering traditional questions.
3. Reinforcement Through Fun
Yes, game-based learning is fun! The American Revolutionary War workbook is full of games that reinforce American Revolution concepts and facts. Of course, uncovering codes and secret words reinforces key historical concepts in a way that helps your kids remember. With the games and puzzles in the workbook, your kids are more likely to go back and re-read passages. This means they will remember what they read.
4. Incentive to Learn
Games come with a built-in reward. . .winning! Discovering secret codes or mystery words is a powerful incentive to keep playing and learning in the American Revolutionary War Workbook. Also, your kids are more likely to pay close attention to details in the reading passage, knowing that each answer brings them closer to solving the puzzle.
5. Increased Motivation
Another benefit to using an interactive workbook to study the American Revolutionary War is to help your kids get (and stay) motivated to learn! Secret codes and mystery words make learning feel less like traditional assignments and more like a fun game. Think of how many times you’ve been motivated to try something new because it leads to winning or a competition. This workbook works in the same way to increase motivation.
6. Versatile Use
Next, the American Revolutionary War workbook is perfect for homeschooling or classrooms. Of course, there are so many ways to implement the mystery word and secret code activities in the workbook. First, use it as part of your daily lessons. Also, consider adding them as supplemental homework, or even independent study.
7. Promotes Positive Reinforcement
Finally, the interactive workbook activities give immediate feedback and promote positive reinforcement. For example, successfully uncovering a secret code tells your kids that their answer is correct and reinforces the learning experience. Overall, this positive feedback gives your kids an added incentive to keep reading and helps them feel successful!
What Activities Are in the American Revolutionary War Interactive Notebook?
1. Mystery Word Activities
Each workbook has three mystery word activities including:
Double Puzzle
The Double Puzzle is so much fun to teach the American Revolutionary War. First, after reading the passage, your kids figure out the correct word corresponding to statements 1-10. Next, they spell the corresponding word in the boxes to the right. Finally, your kids use the numbers under indicated letters to reveal a secret word.

Mystery Word
This activity involves determining true statements about the American Revolutionary War. First, your kids read the passage and determine if each statement is true or false. Next, they color or shade the boxes of the true statements. After shading all the true statements, they unscramble the mystery word using the large, bold letters of only the true statements.
Mystery Match
It’s time for Mystery Match! First, your kids read the passage and draw a line from the left-hand column to make a match in the right-hand column, going through one letter. Next, they use the letters with a line through them to unscramble a mystery word.
2. Secret Code Activities
The other type of American Revolutionary War activities are secret code activities. The workbook has three:
True or False
First, true or false is a fun secret code activity to keep your kids engaged with their American Revolutionary War lessons. First, they read the passage and determine if each statement is true or false. If the statement is true, they color in the coin that corresponds with that question. If the statement is false, they cross out that coin value. The total of all the true coin values reveals a 4-digit code.ย

Paragraph Code
Next is the paragraph code puzzle! Your kids read the passage and number all of the paragraphs. Next, they read each statement and determine what paragraph number the statement is found in. When they finish, they eliminate all even-numbered paragraphs in the answers and then record the remaining numbers to find the code.ย
Multiple Choiceย
Finally, there is the multiple-choice secret code puzzle. In this puzzle, after reading the passage, kids answer each multiple-choice question. Next, they count how many times they use each letter in their answer to figure out the 4-digit code to determine the secret code.
What Topics Are in the American Revolutionary War Interactive Notebook?
The American Revolutionary War interactive notebook has enough content to cover your whole American Revolution unit! Here are the topics covered:
1. Causes and Events Leading to War
The American Revolutionary War interactive notebook includes puzzles that help you review the causes and events leading to the American Revolution. This includes puzzles related to:
- 13 Colonies
- French and Indian War
- Causes of the Revolutionary War
- Boston Massacre
- Boston Tea Party
- Intolerable Acts
2. Key Figures
In addition to the causes and events of the American Revolutionary War, the key figures during the war are an important part of the study. The workbook contains mystery word and secret code activities for these key figures of the American Revolution.
- George Washington
- Paul Revere
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Paine
- Benjamin Franklin
- Patrick Henry
- Benedict Arnold
- Sons of Liberty
- Women of the Revolutionary War
- Loyalists and Patriots
3. Declaring War
The section on declaring war covers both the Continental Congress and the Declaration of Independence. From the Continental Congress laying the foundation for democracy to the writing and signing of the Declaration of Independence, the reading passages and puzzles in the interactive notebook are perfect for reviewing this American Revolutionary War content.
4. Key Battles and Military Strategies
Finally, the key battles and military strategies are important concepts to teach your kids when studying the American Revolution. These topics are covered in the American Revolutionary War interactive notebook.
- Continental Army
- Military Leaders
- Lexington and Concord
- Bunker Hill
- Valley Forge
- Yorktown and the Treaty of Paris
This interactive notebook not only makes learning about the American Revolution engaging and fun, but it also allows your children to explore and make a deeper dive into the content, reading the passages again and again to solve the puzzles.
Check out the American Revolutionary War interactive notebook for your homeschool classroom today!
Prefer a different topic? You can learn more about the United States Constitution Workbook for homeschool HERE.