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Resource Type: DocumentWomen’s Role in the Civil War
Grades: 3 to 6Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceWomen served in the Civil War as nurses, spies, and vivandieres. Explore these stories with students through a video clip and cl...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWomen in the Civil War
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Career & Technical Ed, English-Language Arts and 2 additional..In this activity, from The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War Project, University of Virginia, stud...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Do You See?
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, United States History, Visual Arts, History-Social Science, Types of MediaIn this lesson, from the Library of Congress, students analyze a single photograph from the American Memory collection Selected ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUnited States Sanitary Commission Records: Photograph Album
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Literary Analysis, United States History, Visual Arts, History-Social Science and 3 additional..This collection of images, presented by The New York Public Library Digital Gallery, depicts wounded Civil War soldiers, medical...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThese Honored Dead: The Battle of Rivers Bridge and Civil War Combat Casualties
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, The Civil War & ReconstructionThese Honored Dead: The Battle of Rivers Bridge and Civil War Combat Casualties recounts a battle in a cold, rainy swamp in Sout...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe South's Decision to Secede: Quiz
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, Economics, History-Social ScienceThis student interactive, from an EconEdLink lesson, helps teachers measure students understanding of economics concepts.Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"The Red Badge of Courage": A New Kind of Realism
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, United States History, English-Language Arts, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students compare specific excerpts from Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage" to first-han...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Civil War through a Child's Eye
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, The Civil War & ReconstructionThe Civil War through a Child's Eye is a lesson plan that uses historical fiction and primary sources to expand students' percep...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Civil War as Photographed by Mathew Brady
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, The Civil War & ReconstructionThe Civil War as Photographed by Mathew Brady asks students to visualize the Civil War by studying dozens of period photographs,...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Battle of Prairie Grove: Civilian Recollections of the Civil War
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, The Civil War & ReconstructionThe Battle of Prairie Grove: Civilian Recollections of the Civil War helps students place the Battle of Prairie Grove in the con...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States, United States History, Geography, History-Social Science, The Civil War & ReconstructionThe Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863 presents elements of the battle and its aftermath, including objects used by the soldie...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Battle of Bentonville: Caring for Casualties of the Civil War
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, The Civil War & ReconstructionThe Battle of Bentonville: Caring for Casualties of the Civil War shows how battlefield medical care developed during the Civil ...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSiege of Port Hudson: Forty Days and Nights in the Wilderness of Death
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, The Civil War & ReconstructionSiege of Port Hudson: Forty Days and Nights in the Wilderness of Death describes the struggle for control of the vital Mississip...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSelected Civil War Photographs
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, United States History, Visual Arts, History-Social Science, Types of MediaThis resource, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, offers 1,118 photographs from the Civil War era. Most of the ima...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPrison at Andersonville, Ga.
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Electives, United States History, Geography, History-Social Science and 3 additional..This map, found on the EDSITEment-reviewed EDSITEment-reviewed American Memory project s Map Collections Web site, shows a map o...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPetersburg National Battlefield -- Education
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States, United States History, Geography, History-Social Science, The Civil War & ReconstructionPetersburg National Battlefield -- Education gives materials for different grade levels to prepare students for field trips to t...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLetters, Telegrams, and Photographs Illustrating Factors That Affected the Civil War
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, The Civil War & ReconstructionLetters, Telegrams, and Photographs Illustrating Factors That Affected the Civil War allows students to analyze a variety of doc...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIs All Fair in Germs and War?: Exploring Pros and Cons of Defensive Germ Warfare Research
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, Philosophy, Science and 4 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students explore the ethical and political justifications for defensiv...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkImages at War
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, Visual Arts, World History, History-Social ScienceThe goals of this EDSITEment lesson are to examine American attitudes toward war as revealed in Civil War photographs and World ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHomer’s Civil War Veteran: Battlefield to Wheat Field
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Visual Arts, Visual Arts & Performing ArtsStudents compare and contrast a Winslow Homer's painting with a Civil War photograph from Gettysbury in order to better imagine ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0