USF's WebQuest
Title: The American Civil War Web quest
Author: Mrs. Habeeb
Date: March 21, 2005
Teacher's Page
| Unit Summary | Teacher's Resources | Day 1 Lesson | Day 2 Lesson |
| Day 3 Lesson | Day 4 Lesson | Day 5 Lesson | Day 6 Lesson |
| Day 7 Lesson | Conclusion | Student's Web Quest |
8th grade; 90 minute periods
Goals/Objectives:
1. Students will understand the entire event of the Civil War and its significance in history.
2. Students will examine different aspects of the Civil War, such as male and female roles, cause and effect of the war, and so on.
3. Students will analyze the culture of the north and south by looking at their differences and similarities and how this is important to understanding the Civil War.
NCSS Theme:
Culture, Time, Continuity, and Change, and People,
Places, and Environment
Days: 7
Content:
The content of the American Civil War unit deals with the before, during and after of the event. The content contains characteristics of the north and south, causes and effects of the Civil War, significant figures like Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy, battles fought, the role of women and slaves during the war, the Emancipation Proclamation, abolition, Reconstruction, and more. The unit will thoroughly go over different aspects and perspectives of the Civil War by using primary and secondary sources.
Methods:
Lectures, class discussions, cooperative learning activity, think-pair-share activity, K-W-L chart, Venn diagram, and semantic feature analysis
Web Quest Summary:
Goals/Objectives:
1. Students will understand the various aspects and perspectives of the Civil War by searching for and gathering information from websites provided in the web quest.
2. Students will examine Civil War figures and events that they deem most important to be used in their diagram presentations by searching websites.
3. Students will analyze facts and data that will be used in their outlines by going to various websites.
Days: 2-3
Content:
The content contains information on different aspects of the Civil War, such as important historical figures, events, and so on. The content deals with the most important facts and figures, such as Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Douglass, the Union, the Confederacy, women, slaves, generals, soldiers, battles, and so on. This web quest will be done on the 5th and 6th day after students have learned everything about the Civil War, and will present their project on the last day of the unit plan.
Methods: Cooperative learning activity, website searching
Unit Information:
Background Resources
Web-based Subject Matter Content Civil War Clipart Gallery www.civilwarclipart.com
Civil War Women http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html History World www.historyworld.net The History Channel www.historychannel.com PBS- The Civil War www.pbs.org CivilWarTraveler.com www.civilwar-va.com Civilwar.com www.civilwar.com The Civil War Homepage www.civil-war.net The Library of Congress www.loc.gov Digital History www.digitalhistory.uh.edu
Web Pedagogy Content Mirkwood- The American Civil War http://mirkwood.ucs.indiana.edu/acw Civil War Club www.civilwarclub.com The American Civil War www.swcivilwar.com United States Civil War www.us-civilwar.com The Civil War Archive www.civilwararchive.com Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia- American Civil War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War Valley of the Shadow http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu The History Place www.historyplace.com/civilwar The Civil War www.teacheroz.com/civilwar.htm From Revolution to Reconstruction...and what happened afterwards http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/ch6_p2.htm Slavery in America www.slaveryinamerica.org
Other Resources Handout of Civil War letter http://fredericksburg.com/CivilWar/Artifacts/Letters/page9.htm Shi, David Emory and George Brown Tindall. America: A Narrative History. W.W. Norton & Company: New York. 2000.
Unit Lesson Sequence
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Lesson Plan Outline
Method (Attention Getter, Lecture, Callout Group, etc) Content/Key Ideas/Concepts/Facts
Materials
(Transparencies, audio, handouts, etc)Attention-getter: K-W-L chart Students will do only the first two parts (Know and Want to know) of the chart on the Civil War and leave the last column blank. Then the class will briefly go over what they wrote down in the columns. K-W-L chart handout Short Lecture: Power Point Presentation Power Point presentation on the Civil War before it occurred. The lecture will cover the characteristics of the north and south, slavery, government, etc. Students will take notes. Power Point presentation Homework: Reading and Definitions Students will be assigned to do reading from the textbook and definitions. Textbook
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Lesson Plan Outline
Method (Attention Getter, Lecture, Callout Group, etc) Content/Key Ideas/Concepts/Facts
Materials
(Transparencies, audio, handouts, etc)Attention-getter: Civil War letter The teacher will hand out a Civil War letter to the students, ask them to read it for a few minutes and then discuss it afterwards. The teacher will ask students who they think wrote it, what it's about, etc. This will lead into today's lecture. Civil War letter Short Lecture The teacher will give a small lecture on the causes and effects of the Civil War, important battles fought, significant figures in government and military and soldiers from both sides. Students will take notes. Think-Pair-Share activity Students will do a t-p-s activity involving a Venn diagram on the economic features of the north and south before the Civil War. Venn diagram handout Homework: Reading and Definitions Students will do reading from the textbook and definitions. Textbook
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Lesson Plan Outline
Method (Attention Getter, Lecture, Callout Group, etc) Content/Key Ideas/Concepts/Facts
Materials
(Transparencies, audio, handouts, etc)Video-clip- "Gone with the Wind" Students will watch a short clip from the movie "Gone with the Wind" and then briefly discuss it afterwards (what happened, the scene's significance, etc.) "Gone with the Wind" movie Short Lecture Lecture will be on historical female and slave figures, their roles during the war and significant events surrounding these figures that occurred during the war. Students will take notes. Homework: Map Activity Students will construct a map of America during the Civil War. It will have: the Northern and Southern states, important cities, and places where important battles were fought. Students are encouraged to be as colorful and creative as possible and will use their textbooks to draw their map. They will start on this in class and finish for homework. Textbook, paper (anything but loose leaf), markers, scissors, glue, etc.
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Lesson Plan Outline
Method (Attention Getter, Lecture, Callout Group, etc) Content/Key Ideas/Concepts/Facts
Materials
(Transparencies, audio, handouts, etc)Short Lecture The teacher will do a final lecture on the outcome of the Civil War. Semantic Feature Analysis Students will do a semantic feature analysis on significant Civil War figures. Semantic Feature Analysis handout Homework: Reading and Definitions Students will do reading from the textbook and definitions. Textbook
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Lesson Plan Outline
Method (Attention Getter, Lecture, Callout Group, etc) Content/Key Ideas/Concepts/Facts
Materials
(Transparencies, audio, handouts, etc)Cooperative Learning Activity: Web quest Students will do a web quest in groups of four on the Civil War. Web quest
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Lesson Plan Outline
Method (Attention Getter, Lecture, Callout Group, etc) Content/Key Ideas/Concepts/Facts
Materials
(Transparencies, audio, handouts, etc)Web quest Students will do web quest for the entire class and finish it by the end of class.
Lesson Plan Outline
Method (Attention Getter, Lecture, Callout Group, etc) Content/Key Ideas/Concepts/Facts
Materials
(Transparencies, audio, handouts, etc)Group Presentations Groups will present their Civil War web quest projects. K-W-L Chart Students will finish the chart by filling in the last section entitled "Learn." Students will write down what they learned about the Civil War and then discuss as a class what they learned. K-W-L chart
Conclusion: After this unit is over, students will have gained a thorough understanding of the American Civil War. They will have understood its significance in American history and learned different aspects and perspectives such as Civil War heroes, women, slaves, economy, government, and so on.
