Lesson Overview
The students will be able to create a 3-D display board of specific battles during the Civil War after researching their event using primary and secondary sources.
Essential Question
How did battles in South Carolina impact the outcome of the Civil War?
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SCETV videos
iPads or MacBooks - Computers/tablets with internet access
About 1 week before this activity, create a list of these supplies in a letter to the parents asking for donations. Students can gather earth material with a Ziplock on campus if they forgot to bring anything.
- Hard and thick white display boards cut into half (4 kids per board)
- Earth material including dirt, rocks, sticks, mud to mold
- Lots of Playdough (earth tones: brown, blue, green, tan, black yellow, white)
- Molding clay
- Little army men (they come in huge tubs or bags at Walmart)
- Pipe cleaners
- Barbed wire
- Hot glue guns and sticks
- String/yarn
- Little boats
- Popsicle sticks
- Toothpicks with a white label attached to the top (8 per event, so if each student is doing a different event, you’ll need 32 per board)
- Research graphic organizer
- 3-D display board rubric
- Rubric to grade presentation
- Rubric for peer assessment of presentation
- Student sample of 3-D display boards or pictures of these boards
- Copy of the SC Support Document for 8-4.5 to be used by each student
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- 8.3 Demonstrate an understanding of conflict and compromise in South Carolina, the Southern region, and the United States as a result of sectionalism between the period 1816–1865.
- This indicator was designed to encourage inquiry into the Civil War focusing on the impacts of military strategies and major turning points on South Carolina and the U.S.
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Lesson Partners: South Carolina Hall of Fame