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CIVIL WAR



 American civil war. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://americancivilwar.com/civil.html Americancivilwar.com [|American Civil War] This site is more the students. It provides maps, timelines, and books about the Civil War or topics/ issues that occurred during that time. This site is very well organized into: a Kids Zone, Resources, Maps, Places, People and Battles. This is a great site to let student roam and search or for teachers to use to incorporate into the lesson plan

 Carr, K. (2009, Janurary 15). Kidipede. Retrieved from http://kidipede.net/learn/northamerica/after1500/history/civilwar2.htm Kidipede [|American Civil War] This is a great site for teachers to send students to at home or in the clasroom. It describes events from the Civil War with vocabulary words highlighted and linked to the definiton. It has pictures that help to explain the facts and also a video that includes a map as a further aid.    <span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Cheek, J. (2005, August 11). Edtech. Retrieved from http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/civwar.html <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Edtech <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Civil War] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">This site provides a long list of different ideas and areas that can be covered when teaching the Civil war. It provides resources and informational sites all having to do with the Civil War as well as lesson plans for the classroom as well as online! Another great aspect of this site is that it has an entire section for online games, quizzes and activities.

<span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Donn, Initials. (n.d.). Mrdonn.org. Retrieved from http://americanhistory.mrdonn.org/civilwar.html <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Mrdonn.org <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|American History: Civil War] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">This is a great site because it not only includes a wide variety of lesson plans and different ways and angles from which to teach the Civil War but it also has free powerpoints, games, and video clips. This site also includes links that the students can go to learn and play interactive games and quizzes. This site offers a large quantity of materials and ideas that both students and teachers can use. <span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 121%;"> <span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 133.1%;"> <span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 146.41%;"> <span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Education World, Inc., Initials. (1996). Education world. Retrieved from http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/00-2/lp2003.shtml <span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Education World <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Civil War Photos Tell a Story] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">This site is useful becuase it provides an indeatil lesson plan for not only an activity on the Civil war but also how to incorporate another subject, Arts & Humanities. On the site there is a lesson plane, objective, vocabulary words, and materials needed. A teacher could use this site as an idea of how to teach a lesson on the Civil War or just even take ideas from it and modify to make it his/her own. The site shows which standards it meets, which can save the teacher the time of searching and trying to figure out which, if any, standards are being met. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">K12tn. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.mce.k12tn.net/civil_war/civil_war.htm <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">k12tn.net <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|The Civil War] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">This site offers activities, quizzes, and lessons on the Civil War and other related topics. In specific regards to the Civil War it even offers a student and teacher friendly timeline. There is also not only a vocabulary list but also recommended related books.

<span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Small Planet Communications, Inc., Initials. (2000). Small planet communications. Retrieved from http://www.smplanet.com/civilwar/civilwar.html <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Small Planet Communications <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Lesson Plan: The Civil War] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">This site can be useful in teaching the Civil War because it has an entire unit outline and helpful resources. The site includes objectives for the material being learned, recommended books to aid in the lessons, activities to enrich and enhance the learning of the students, and how to incorporate reading and writing lessons as well.

<span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Teachology, Inc., Initials. (1999). Teachology. Retrieved from http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/history/us_history/civilwar/ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">teAchology <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|American Civil War Lesson Plans] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">This site is great! It provides 30+ ideas of lesson plans and topics dealing with the Civil War that can be covered int the classrooom. It also has links to different subjects, which can help teachers incorporate more than one subject into a lesson plan. It has worksheet, lesson plans, rubrics and teacher tools and tips. This is a great starting point for new teachers or teachers who are at a road block on starting a lesson plan.

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