Standard 4 Students will understand that the 19th century was a time of incredible change for the United States, including geographic expansion, constitutional crisis, and economic growth.Objective 3 Evaluate the course of events of the Civil War and its impact both immediate and long-term.a. Identify the key ideas, events, and leaders of the Civil War using primary sources (e.g. Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, news accounts, photographic records, diaries).
The Peadagogy that I'll use is a guided discovery as the students go from battle site to battle site using Google Earth. At each stop they will perform a task and write in their journals.
I'll use Google Earth for the technology, making a kmz file for my students to use and "travel" to each of the major battle sites of the Civil War. Google Earth is such a great tool because students not living in a civil war area of the United States will be able to see the distance that it covered and other land facts.
| Location | Activity | Google Earth Content |
| 1. Battle of Bull Run | Research Bull Run on Wikipedia about how the war started, including the two Bull Run battles. | use the Wikipedia link on Google Earth to access information. |
| 2. Battle of Gettysburg | Write in their journals about how it would feel to be the member of a family that lost someone at the battle of Gettysburg | use the distance tool to find out how large the battle field was. |
| 3. Battle of Vicksburg | look up how terrain affected a battle and write the advantages and disadvantages. | use the landscape/terrain tool to look at the shape of the land and locate any large hills. |
| 4. Battle of Pettersburg | Write in their journals about how they would feel if they found out that the war was over. | Use the picture links to find pictures of the end of the war |
| Outline of United States with pins marking the battle sites |
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