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Lesson Plans & Activities

Primary Documents, Opening Lesson, Civil War (Donn)

Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad

Free Presentations in PowerPoint format 

Slavery and Events Leading to the Civil War (Bedford Schools unit)

Slavery Unit

How did slavery impact our nation (unit) 

1850: The Two Faces of Slavery (click on excerpt from the book)

War Between the States (unit)

The United States Civil War  

War Between the North and South 

Crossroads - Elementary, Middle, High School Levels

Civil War Adventures (lesson)

A View From Me (Civil War Stories, Mississippi teachers)

Calendar Creations about the Civil War (lesson)

Death and the Civil War (science lesson)

Role Playing the American Civil War 

Abraham Lincoln  Mock Trial: Abraham Lincoln Assassination

The Reunion: Lesson Plan

The Blue & The Gray Project (student work)

  Civil War Literature  

Civil War (reading lessons, activities, quiz, school site)

Civil War: Causes, Conflicts, Consequences  

Civil War: Continuity or Change? Reading Slave Codes, Jim Crow Law, Reconstruction

Reconstruction: A Time of Turbulence UNIT (5)

Reconstruction: Unfinished Business (lesson, activity)

Problems of African Americans in the South
using pamphlets and other materials (online), most of which
were written by African American authors about pressing issues of the day.


Mr Donn's Lesson Idea
 Problem Solving (8th-grade)

Up to a certain point, the Civil War could have been avoided.
After that point, war was predictable.
Determine where that point might have been and why.

Civil War and Reconstruction Webquests

American Civil War Songs

Civil War Archives - Finding your ancestors (free)

Civil War (Awesome Library, links) 

Slavery 1840 through 1960


For Kids

Harriet Tubman and The Underground Railroad

Map of the Civil War

The Civil War for 5th graders  

The Gettysburg Address

Civil War Ends - A Child's Diary (primary document)

Eyewitness to History

Civil War Timeline

Gettysburg

Timeline Abraham Lincoln

Life of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln for Primary Kids









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