The Civil WarAmanda BurdenKaren RichardsMalane TaylorOh yeah And...Bill Yakunovich

ED417-A01

6th Grade Social Studies

Activities• Have the students re-write the ending to the

Civil War. They can have a peace treaty or the South win.

• The students must tell how the United States would have been different if the Civil War had ended differently.

Activities

• Separate the class into groups,

each group will conduct a front

line news report from a different battle.

More Activities

• Separate the class into groups,

each group will cook a different

meal from the Civil War era.

Activities

• Have the students re-enact a Civil War battle on a strategy board.

• Have students re-enact a meeting between officers of the Confederacy and officials from France to conduct trading of supplies.

Activities

• Write out strategies to rage an offense

against the enemy.

• Have the students plan a strategy to get supplies to the troops on the battlefield.

Activities

• Have the students conduct a

presidential election for the newly formed Confederacy.

- Separate into two separate parties, each

party must hold a campaign for their

presidential candidate.

Activities

• Have the students research the draft for this era. – Was there a draft?

• If not, should there have been a draft?• If so, how did the draft work at that time?

Web Addresses• Http://www.awod.com/gallery/probono/cwchas/cwlayout

.html• Http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/• http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/index.html• http://www.rs6loc.gov/ammem/tl1861.html• Http://www.rosecity.net/smallpox.html