Civil War Unit Study
FREE Interactive Notebooking pages
and unit notes Jimmies Collage Homeschool Share Civil War Lapbook FREE LAP BOOK for the CIVIL WAR <pieces could be used for interactive notebooking as well> Guided Notes SOL 8c Power Point Presentation | Underground Railroad Webquest Guided Notes SOL 8d 8 Regions boxes | 8 Regions Map Guided Notes SOL 2b 8 Regions Foldable Continents Drawing | Continents Map Guided Notes SOL 2a Unit 6 Cover Sheet Unit 6 Placards Divided Nation Booklet Guided Notes SOL 9a Compromise Chart Web Activity | Juggler Guided Notes SOL 9b Union/Confederacy Map | alternate map with state names Guided Notes SOL 9c Civil War Leaders Cartoon Guided Notes SOL 9d Civil War Battles Wiki Activity | Appomattox Coloring Page Guided Notes SOL 9e Civil War Soldier Web Activity Guided Notes SOL 9f Amendments Pop-Up Book Guided Notes SOL 10a Guided Notes SOL 10b Printable Lessons and Resources for purchase from Homeschoolinthewoods.com
Here's some inspiration using these resources from Shower of Roses Difference between North and South : Disunion
Civil War Overview free Lesson PlanResearch Resources
The Civil War Homepage
hundreds of pages of original documents, maps and research information. Easy navigation. The Valley of the Shadow -hypermedia archive of thousands of sources for the period before, during, and after the Civil War for Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Those sources include newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, maps, church records, population census, agricultural census, and military records. Students can explore the conflict and write their own histories, or reconstruct the life stories of women, African Americans, farmers, politicians, soldiers, and families. The project is intended for secondary schools, community colleges, libraries, and universities.
Civil War.com CivilWar.com is divided into 11 sections and the overview section offers causes of the war, a summary of the war, a look at the life of a soldier and the timeline of events. Other sections include Battles, Resources, Weapons, Travel, News, For Teachers, Forum, People, and Slavery. Content is as deep as some other sites, but Resources section is for more in-depth study provides access to books, recorded histories, the Official Record, photographs, letters, diaries, links, genealogical information, statistics and government records.
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CONFEDERATE SOLIDERS
The Crisis at Fort Sumter WEBQUEST
Crisis at Fort Sumter is an interactive historical simulation and decision making program. Using text, images, and sound, it reconstructs the dilemmas of policy formation and decision making in the period between Abraham Lincoln's election in in November 1860 and the battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861. Lincoln's First Inaugural Address This Civil War.com lesson plan helps students understand the historical context and significance of Lincoln's inaugural address through archival documents such as campaign posters, sheet music, vintage photographs and documents. Features EDSITEment-reviewed sites and six suggested activities. Important People of the Civil War |
Civil War ***This is a segment from one of my favorite TEACHING resource EasyPeasyHomeschool.com I love to use it as a framework for lessons to help me get creative and explore creating my own unit studies. All the lessons there are free as well. It comes from a Christian world view with a heavy emphasis on writing and lots of reading. However, in the recent years they have added audio links to support children who struggle with reading.
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- Read the timeline of the Civil War.
- *Use the timeline to fill in your Civil War timeline page.
- You are going to be making another newspaper. There is a link on the page to a template in Word that you can use. You can also design the newspaper yourself. Write down your who, what, where, when, why and how facts as you research your article choices. Instead of the facts, this time write a second article on another person from the war. For your free choice you could do anything appropriate to the time period, even an advertisement, or proverb or witticism.
- Here are some short directions for how to write a news article.
- Get started today. You must be finished by Day 165. You have 10 days to write 4 articles, include pictures, quotes and your free choice.
- Here’s one site to read about Clara Barton, a woman involved in the war.
- African Americans in the war
- Here are sites with quotations.
- Here is a site for information on people.
- Here is a page to read about many of the battles.
- Here are sites on the battle of Gettysburg.
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- You are going to be putting together a Civil War lapbook. Complete the slavery pieces.
- *Harriet Tubman
- *Harriet Beecher Stowe
- *Slavery and the Road to War – Look at this map. Click on Slave Population. Where were all the slaves? Click on Agriculture (that means farming). Where were all the farms? The South needed slaves to work their farms. Without slaves they couldn’t produce as much cheaply and couldn’t make as much profit (money).
- Work on your newspaper.
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- *(Print page 1.) Color in a Union/Confederate map (American Civil War – Color the states).
- Today complete the Abraham Lincoln pieces.
- Work on your newspaper.
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- Read about differences between the North and South.
- Read about the South after Lincoln’s election.
- Complete this lapbook piece.
- Work on your newspaper.
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- Read about the leaders during the Civil War.
- Tell someone about the two generals and two presidents you read about.
- Complete these lapbook pieces.
- Work on your newspaper.
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- Read about the Emancipation Proclamation.
- What did it do? (answer: It freed the slaves in all of the rebellious states.)
- Read about the Gettysburg Address.
- What idea of their ancestors did Abraham Lincoln remind the people of? (answer: all men are created equal)
- Complete this lapbook piece.
- Work on your newspaper.
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- Look at this page of battles.
- Who seemed to be winning the war in the beginning? (answer: the South)
- At what battle did things start to change for the North? (answer: the battle of Gettysburg)
- Complete this lapbook piece.
- *Civil WarBattles (You don’t need to print the whole thing.)
- Work on your newspaper.
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- Read about Clara Barton.
- *Complete the lapbook piece (Clara Barton).
- Work on your newspaper.
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- Other people of the war: read this page, complete this piece *(Matthew Brady).
- Who were Sherman and Jackson?
- Day 165 is the last day to work on your newspaper.
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- *Print out this fill in the blank activity.
- *Complete this word search.
- What does secede mean? (answer: to formally withdraw from a union or alliance)
- Finish your newspaper.
- You can add this to your portfolio.
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- Read this newspaper overview of the war.
- (*)Print out this fill in the blank activity, or fill in the answers out loud to someone.
- You can add this to your portfolio.
- Read this page about the Civil War.
- Listen to the Gettysburg Address.
- Add the Civil War to your timeline.
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- You are going to be doing a final, end-of-the-year project. You can choose to learn more about anything from history from the first to settle in America up through the Civil War.
- Choose something specific. Don’t just pick a time period. Choose a person or event. Or choose something specific about a time period, like children, or dress, or transportation…
- Here is a page with some links you could look through for an idea.
- Here is another page with links for ideas.
- Once you have chosen what you are going to do for an end-of-the-year project, the second step is to decide what type of project are you going to do. You can make a lapbook, a poster, a power point presentation, a glog, or a scrapbook either on paper or online. You could write and put on a play or give a speech. Or, you can think of something I haven’t thought of. Choose what you are going to do.
- You are going to complete your project, write a bibliography-a list of your resources, and present your project to an audience.
- You must present your project on Day 180.
