Students consider the impact of the American Civil War on Georgia. In this Georgia history lesson, students discover Roswell's contributions to the Confederate effort and then create children's books that illustrate the destruction of...

Examine the genre of historical fiction while reading A Light in the Storm. They extract events in chronological order to make a timeline. Then, they use information in the book important to the characters to create a presentation of an...

The Battle of Fort Sumter was both the first and the least deadly battle of the American Civil War, with no soldiers lost during the lengthy bombardment. Learn more about the first shots of the Civil War with a short reading passage and...

In this everyday editing learning exercise, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the Surrender at Appomattox. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

Students explore U.S. history by creating a computer presentation in class. In this Civil War battle instructional activity, students read assigned text about the Battle of Stones River and research individual generals from the battles....

Middle schoolers read one of the most important documents in our nation's history: The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. After everyone reads the proclamation, they set out to write a "You Were There" type of report on it. They pretend...

Students write creative accounts of the Battle at Rivers Bridge after studying historic accounts and looking at images in this series of activities.

Students research African-American participation in the Civil War. In this Civil War lesson, students read the article "Fighting Rebels with Only One Hand" and write a persuasive paragraph on whether the participation of the...