This resource guide describes sourcebooks, filmstrips, periodicals, games, classroom activities, national programs, and school-community projects appropriate to the teaching of bicentennial themes. Twenty-four planning guides are listed which suggest activities for various grade levels. Bibliographies covering the revolutionary period, a partial listing of publishers of bicentennial books, and periodicals with special features on bicentennial topics are given as resources. Audiovisual resources include tapes and films covering life in colonial times and the development of America. Information on crafts and project materials, such as colonial cooking and costume design, is provided. Seventy-six classroom teaching ideas emphasize the differences between modern life-style and that of 1776. Town records, buildings, wills, diaries, and maps are suggested as resources for classes to study the history of their own communities. Among national and school-community projects are traveling multimedia productions and identification of local objects of historical significance. Some items are free; others must be purchased from the sources mentioned. (AV)