For some, learning about history can be boring, but fifth-graders at Wareham Middle recently had a chance to witness and participate in a live performance that depicted some of the most important scenes of the American Revolution, many of which took place in and around the city of Boston.

On Wednesday, Margaret Ann Brady and Tim Hoover, actors/instructors with The Freedom Trail Foundation’s Scholars Program, visited the school and put on a captivating performance with the help of Wareham students, providing them with valuable lessons involving the events that shaped the formation of our country.

Three fifth-graders played the role of American colonists and three played British soldiers in each of the three sessions, while Brady and Hoover, playing several different influential characters, progressed through the Boston Massacre, the famous ride of Paul Revere, and the Boston Tea Party.

Brady said they were at Wareham Middle School through a grant from the Massachusetts Teachers Association, and that part of the goal of the program is to educate students not only on the Freedom Trail, which is a 2.5 mile route through Boston that leads to several historically significant sites and locations from the American Revolution, but also about the events that lead up to America gaining its independence from Britain’s rule.

She said that students are pretested before the performance, and then again after, and more often than not, the lesson seems to resonate with the students because the students are more engaged than usual.

“The research has show that it works, so we’re scientifically quantifiable,” said Brady.