Battles of the Revolutionary War

Ms. McCarthy and I came up with a project to get familiar with the battles of the Revolutionary War. I found a website, http://www.britishbattles.com/battle-of-quebec-1775.htm, that organizes the battles into categories (fields). We had the students set up a database in FileMaker Pro with the 9 fields: Battle, date, place, combatants, size of armies, generals, casualties, winner and picture. For advanced students we added significance. They were required to do 10 battles which must include Trenton, Saratoga and Yorktown. As a final activity they will write and answer 10 questions about their database. Students will then switch computers and question sheets and see how well they can answer the questions using the Find feature. For a rubric and directions you can open this WORD document.