5SSCivilWar

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Quick Activities and Games
Quia- Abraham Lincoln Test your knowledge about the early life of Abraham Lincoln http://www.quia.com/custom/56main.html

How Did Civil War Soldiers Battle Boredom? Click the link below to learn how the soldiers during the Civil War battled boredom. Then create a VENN diagram comparing how you combat bordom and how they did. http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson186.shtml (Link for teachers)

Lincoln's Letter Shows Human Side of War http://www.harcourtschool.com/newsbreak/lincoln.html Read the article and write your answer to the discussion question at the bottom of the page

Black Civil War Soldiers Honored http://www.harcourtschool.com/newsbreak/powell.html Read the article and write your answer to the discussion question at the bottom of the page Lessons- Internet

Underground Railroad Online Simulation http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/ Introduction: You are a slave. Your body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in 1850s Maryland. Six long days a week you tend his fields and make him rich. You have never tasted freedom. You never expect to. And yet. . . your soul lights up when you hear whispers of attempted escape. Freedom means a hard, dangerous trek. Do you try it?

The Civil War... Reading Lessons: http://www.mce.k12tn.net/civil_war/civil_war.htm Reading lessons on the Civil War are followed up with student activities on the literature selections. Each topic (slavery, rebellion, abolitionists, Lincoln, etc.)has its own resources, and most are accompanied by a quiz.

ThinkQuest Junior w/ activities and links http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/5663/

Civil War Thinkquest http://library.thinkquest.org/3055/index2.html

Lessons- Technology
Spreadsheet- Students collect statistical information about 5 different battles of the Civil War. Then, using a spreadsheet program, they will chart the information. How to Create a Graph Help Page: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/excel_create_chart.htm

Spreadsheet- Students use the provided link to collect information on the deaths in each state during the Civil War. Students can answer the questions on the worksheets, then pick a state and (using a spreadsheet program) graph the losses. http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson186.shtml How to Create a Graph Help Page: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/excel_create_chart.htm

Inspiration Flow Chart- Students use Inspiration to create a cause and effect flow chart for the Civil War

Internet Resources- Teacher
The Civil War for Kids http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/civilwar/cwar.htm A great site created by a 5th grade teacher in New York. There are ideas for creating a Civil War timeline using Kid Pix, bar graphs with a spreadsheet program, charting the battle victories with a table in word processing, mapping (can be done with Kid Pix), and creating web pages with short biographies of Civil War leaders.

"Mary Chestnut and Her Diary"- A Play from the Southern Perspective http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/reproducibles/profbooks/chestnutplay.pdf

A Collection of Civil War Resources http://www.42explore2.com/undergrd.htm

BrainPop Movies: (See your librarian or technologist for campus login) Civil War- http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/freemovies/civilwar/ Civil War Causes- http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/civilwarcauses/

Internet Resources- Student
Home of the American Civil War: Information on the battles, people, and even the medicine of the Civil War. http://www.civilwarhome.com

American Memory- Timeline of the Civil War http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/tl1861.html

The American Civil War Homepage A wide variety of resources including biographical information, battles and campaigns, state/local studies, and images http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html

The Civil War Good timeline and short summaries of the battles http://www.civilwar.com/

Images American Memory- Civil War Pictures http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

The History Place- timeline of the Civil War with some pictures http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/index.html

Resources from Social Studies Alive
America’s Library: America’s Story http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi The Library of Congress presents “America’s Story,” a website with stories about many events in American history. Visit these pages to learn more about this period that led up to the Civil War: - slave auction - http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/reform/slaveauc_1 - Uncle Tom’s Cabin - http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/reform/beecher_1 - John Brown - http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/reform/brown_1 - Florida secedes - http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/civil/florida_1 - Lincoln’s inauguration - http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/civil/lincoln2_1 - Jefferson Davis - http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/civil/davis_1

America’s Library: The Civil War http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/civil Look at a timeline and read all about the Civil War at this Library of Congress site.