PREPARED LESSON PLANS:
The Headbone Zone's online interactive game on the Underground Railroad:
www.headbone.com/derby/escape/ Mr. Donn's Civil War/Reconstruction site with links:
members.aol.com/MrDonnHistory/American.html#CIVIL Civil War Personal Journal: A Webquest:
coe.west.asu.edu/students/hcarter/webquest.htm ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/soc/cecsst/cecsst020.html ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Social_St/US_history/USH0028.html atozteacherstuff.com/lessons/AbeLincolnsLogCabin.shtml www.courses.dsu.edu/eled360/publish/patr.htm www.smplanet.com/civilwar/civilwar.html atozteacherstuff.com/lessons/UndergroundRailroad.shtml www.successlink.org/great/g152.html www.courses.dsu.edu/eled360/publish/wendys.htm www.successlink.org/great/g178.html www.track0.com/canteach/elementary/wsoccult6.html ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/fecga.htm ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/soc/cecsst/cecsst008.html volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/tlgunit.htm WEB RESOURCES:
When searching the internet for links on the American Civil War, you can get lost on the information highway. Below are links that I've reviewed and found helpful....but, these are just a few of the many offerings available.
Mr. Donn's Civil War/Reconstruction Site with links
members.aol.com/MrDonnHistory/American.html#CIVIL The Civil War -- This site has a very large number of links, all of which would be useful in planning a unit study of the US Civil War. The links are listed alphabetically by subject, making it even easier to use.
members.aol.com/TeacherNet/civilwar.html The Civil War for Kids (has some interesting clipart to use in conjunction with the unit study)
www.jewish-history.com/Clipartgallery/clipart.htm KidInfo's page on the Civil War
www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Civil_War.html Kid Links for the American Civil War
www.wc4.org/civil_war.htm The Civil War For Kids (another site geared specifically for kids)
www2.lhric.org/pocantico/civilwar/cwar.htm The Kid Konnection - the American Civil War
www.hinsdale.lib.il.us/kc_civil_war.htm The History Beat - the American Civil War
searchbeat.com/Society/History/UnitedStates/Wars/CivilWar/ Outline of the Civil War with links
members.tripod.com/~greatamericanhistory/gr02006.htm This is Yahoo's list of US Civil War information. While it duplicates some of the links that are mentioned in this article, it is useful in that all the links are in one location.
dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/19th_Century/Civil_War__1861_1865_/ The Valley of the Shadow Project. Two communities on opposites sides of the war.
jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/ The Civil War - This is a very good site. Here is their introductory statement: It was the greatest war in American history. 3 million fought - 600,000 died. It was the only war fought on American soil by Americans, and for that reason we have always been fascinated with The Civil War. Hundreds of books, movies and documentaries have (and are) being created about this war. With the advent of the internet, we now have yet another tool to study every single event in this great period of American history.
www.civilwar.com/ The Civil War Archive -- regimental histories, corps histories, battle summaries, rosters, reports, letters, links, battle flags and diaries.
www.civilwararchive.com/intro.htm The American Civil War - another site with a long list of links. Very good and well maintained.
americancivilwar.com/ This site is advertised as having nearly 6000 links. I've never counted them, but found plenty of use.
www.cwc.lsu.edu/ Letters, Telegrams, and Photographs Illustrating Factors that Affected the Civil War
www.nara.gov/education/cc/civilwar.html Civil War Literature Circle Virtual Museum
www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/civwnov/civwnovtg.htm Camp Life (Gettysburg National Military Park)
www.cr.nps.gov/csd/gettex/ The Underground Railroad by National Geographic
www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/j1.html The Civil War at HistoryChannel.com
historychannel.com/military/civwar America's Civil War
www.sewanee.edu/faculty/Willis/Civil_War/index.html Attitudes Toward Emancipation
edsitement.neh.gov/lessonplans/emancipation.html Civil War Women
scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html Evaluating Eye Witness Reports
edsitement.neh.gov/lessonplans/eval_eyewitness.html Civil War Gazette
www.sbcss.k12.ca.us/sbcss/services/educational/cctechnology/webquest/civilwar.html Civil War Soldiers: Fact and Fiction
catalog.socialstudies.com/c/@tfyojde2atyo6/Pages/article.html?article@CivilWarSoldiers History of emancipation during the US Civil War
www.inform.umd.edu/ARHU/Depts/History/Freedman/home.html Battle Flags of the Confederacy -- renditions of Confederate pattern battle flags with histories; also some photos of Civil War guns with histories.
freeweb.pdq.net/flags/index.htm Lincoln Goes to War
edsitement.neh.gov/lessonplans/lincoln_war.html Archaeology of the US Civil War
www.espd.com/salute/ Medicine of the Civil War
www.powerweb.net/bbock/war/ members.aol.com/cwsurgeon0/indexJ.html www.rosecity.net/smallpox.html www.findarticles.com/m2004/3_45/56909018/p1/article.jhtml Civil War Poetry and Music
users.erols.com/kfraser/ www.civilwar.8m.com/ www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/gourd.htm www.acronet.net/~robokopp/civilwar.html Civil War Music -- This is a great site with midi files that you can listen to
www.pdmusic.org/civilwar.html Timeline of the US Civil War from the Library of Congress
rs6.loc.gov/ammem/tl1861.html A House Divided Against Itself
www.military.com/Resources/HistorySubmittedFileView?file=history_civilwar.htm&lf=ls StudyWeb's Civil War Battles website
www.studyweb.com/links/414.html A Webquest on Secessionism
curry.edschool.virginia.edu/curry/dept/cise/soc/resources/aq/themes/7/secession/introduction.htm Letters from an Iowa soldier in the US Civil War
www.civilwarletters.com/home.html The Antietam National Battlefield
www.nps.gov/anti/index.htm Slavery and the American West
www.findarticles.com/m2004/n1_v44/20645799/p1/article.jhtml FAMOUS PEOPLE:
You'll find biographical information on several Civil War figures at this site:
americancivilwar.com/ Just a few of the websites dedicated to Civil War figures are:
Grant, Ulysses
www.mscomm.com/~ulysses/ saints.css.edu/mkelsey/gppg.html Lincoln, Abraham
score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/presidentsday/pages/lincoln.htm www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/lincoln/index.html Tubman, Harriet
www.nlc-bnc.ca/confed/blacks1.htm teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLresources/longterm/LessonPlans/famous/tubman.html www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/puzzles.htm (this link has crossword puzzles!)
Meade, Major General George Gordon
adams.patriot.net/~jcampi/welcome.htm