Ohio During the Civil War

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Ohio During the Civil War

• Standards-based Lesson Plan
• Fifth-grade
• Missy Sharp
• Allison Eckstein
• Andy Couper
• Todd Moore

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Table of Contents

• History Web Sites
• People in Societies
• Geography
• Economics
• Government
• Citizenship
• Technology

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History Web Sites

• List of sites for the Underground Railroad
• http//www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/states
  .htm
• Timeline of the Civil War
• http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/tl1861.html
• Outline of the Civil War http//members.tripod.com
  /greatamericanhistory/gr02006.htmI
• Uncle Toms Cabin
• http//www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb
  /reform/beecher_1
• Underground Railroad and causes of the Civil War
• http//americancivilwar.com/underground_railroad.h
  tml

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Activities

• Teacher will read excerpts from Uncle Toms
  Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe who lived
  in Cincinnati. Students will discuss in groups
  what effect the novel may have had on people at
  that time. Class discussion of events that
  followed publication.
• Students will play a simulated game, Underground
  Railroad, in which they take the part of
  passengers, conductors, and bounty hunters.

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Activities, cont.

• Working in groups, students will construct an
  illustrated timeline of events of the Civil War.
  Individually, they will choose one event and
  write about its importance.
• Students will role play a political discussion
  between supporters of the war effort and
  opponents.
• Students will draw a political cartoon, write an
  editorial, or give a speech to influence opinion
  about the Civil War.

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People in Society Web Sites

• The Colored Troops
• http//www.civilwarhome.com/chapt6.htm
• The Ohio Village
• http//www.ohiohistory.org/places/ohvillag/
• African American Struggle
• http//www.seorf.ohiou.edu/xx057/

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People in Society Web Sites

• Womens issues during the Civil War
• http//americancivilwar.com/women/women.html
• Margaret Garner
• http//www.rootsweb.com/kypendle/slavemargaretgar
  ner.htm

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Activities

• Students will take a field trip to Ohio Village,
  in Columbus, which depicts life during the Civil
  War.
• Students will create an illustrated diary of
  their experiences at Ohio Village.
• Students will read textbook section detailing the
  struggle of African-Americans in Ohio to fight
  for the Union.

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Activities, cont.

• Students will discuss in groups problems that
  women faced during the war. They will brainstorm
  possible solutions.
• Students will read about Margaret Garner, an
  escaped slave who killed one of her own children
  rather than return her to slavery. Class will
  discuss her decision.

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Geography Web Sites

• John Hunt Morgan Heritage Trail
  http//hhhills.org/jhmht/
• Color landform atlas Ohio
• http//geography.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?
  sitehttp//fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/oh5F0.html
• Civil War image map
• http//homepage.floodcity.net/users/mastdog/oh.htm
  l

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Geography Web Sites

• Ohio Civil War Travel Guide
• http//americancivilwar.com/statepic/oh.html
• Morgans Raiders
• http//home.frognet.net/loweryjr/morgan.htm

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Activities

• Students will research information on the
  physical geography of Ohio and draw a map of Ohio
  which represents this information.
• Students will measure travel and actual distances
  between given locations within Ohio.

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Activities, cont.

• Students will complete a political map with
  principal cities and bordering states.
• Students will make a travel brochure which
  highlights characteristics of the state during
  the Civil War.
• Students will research Morgans Raiders and draw
  on map their route through Ohio.

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Economic Web Sites

• Ohios economic contribution
• http//www.infoplease.com/ce6/us/A0860112.html
• Ohios industrial growth
• http//www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2004/is
  _1_47/ai_73024087
• Transportation for industry
• http//www.ohiohistorycentral.org/ohc/history/ocoa
  /pla/r.shtml
• Ohio Civil War natural resources
• http//www.eduplace.com/state/oh/oh_links.html
• Students will write a letter to an Ohio Civil War
  farmer.
• http//www.cincinnatilibrary.org/kidspace/homework
  .asp?category1

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Activities

• Students will discuss how Ohios economic
  development contributed to the war.
• Students will read textbook section dealing with
  the industrial growth in Ohio.
• Students will research modes of transportation
  for industrial and agricultural goods during the
  Civil War.

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Activities, cont.

• Students will research Ohios natural resources
  and determine their importance to the war effort.
• Students will write a letter to a farmer who is
  fighting in the war and whose family is running
  the farm alone. They can be either the farmers
  wife or a child. They should describe economic
  conditions and problems they are facing.

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Government Web Sites

• Welcome to the American presidency
• http//ap.grolier.com/article?assetid0124750-0te
  mplatename/article/article.html
• Civil War Ohio
• http//www.iwaynet.net/lsci/cwpaper.htm
• Civil War Politics
• http//home.carolina.rr.com/civilwarcauses/
• Civil War Politicians
• http//politicalgraveyard.com/death/civil-war
  .htm
• Voting in Civil War times Ohio
• http//www.civilwarhome.com/vote.htm

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Government

• Students will read about political decisions
  leading up to the war. Class discussion of these
  decisions.
• Teacher will read Ulysses S. Grant. Class
  discussion of how Ohio leaders during the war
  affected politics afterward.
• Students will learn about political parties
  during the war and compare their stand on the
  issues.

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Activities, cont.

• Students will choose a Civil War leader who
  becomes involved in politics after the war. They
  will research their person and write a report on
  him.
• Students will learn about and discuss which
  people in Ohio were allowed to vote during that
  time and who were not allowed and what effect
  that had.

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Citizenship Web Sites

• Civil Rights during the Civil War
• http//memory.loc.gov/learn/features/civilrights/f
  lash.html
• Civil War Draft
• http//www.civilwarhome.com/conscription.htm
• America A Land of Many People
• http//media.aea11.k12.ia.us/htbin/wwform/www/?TEX
  TR4100562-4105495-/www/documents/041/cat/wwi770.h
  tm
• Civil Rights
• http//www.usdoj.gov/kidspage/crt/crtmenu.htm
• Living in the Civil War
• http//www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0590
  454226/qid1097867600/sr1-1/refsr_1_1/104-035384
  9-8871166?vglancesbooks

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Activities

• Class discussion of patriotism and freedom of
  speech.
• Students will read about how some Ohioans were
  able to pay someone to fight in their place after
  the draft went into effect. They will write a
  journal entry detailing their feelings on this
  issue.

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Activities, cont.

• 3. Students will watch America A Land of Many
  People.
• Students will read in text about the different
  groups of people living in Ohio. They will
  discuss this reading and the previous video.
• Teacher will read If You Lived in the Time of the
  Civil War. Students will answer the questions
  included.

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Skills and Methods Web Sites

• Civil War Troop Statistics
• http//www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/The_Gre
  at_Republic_By_the_Master_Historians_Vol_III/civil
  war_fi.html
• Union Soldiers
• http//www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/3680/cw/cw.ht
  ml
• Actual Letters from the Civil War
• http//www.civilwarmall.com/

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Skills and Methods Web Sites

• Internet Articles
• http//www.educationplanet.com/articles/civilwar.h
  tml
• Analyzing Civil War Pictures
• http//www.civil-war.net/

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Activities

• Students will study a graph illustrating the
  number of soldiers from each state compared to
  its population. They will write a paragraph
  explaining what they discovered.
• Students will pretend to be a Union soldier and
  write a letter back home describing their
  experiences.

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Activities, cont.

• Students will read actual letters written by
  soldiers during the Civil War. In groups, they
  will compare their letters.
• Students will research an article on the internet
  and verify the information through another source
  such as a textbook or encyclopedia.
• Students will examine Civil War era pictures.
  Class discussion of what pictures tell about the
  time.

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Technology Web Sites

• Letters from 126th Ohio Volunteer
• http//www.iwaynet.net/lsci/
• Poetry and music in the War Between the States
• http//home.earthlink.net/poetry61-65/
• Civil War newspapers
• http//www.uttyl.edu/vbetts/newspaper_titles.htm

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Technology Web Sites

• Civil War Novels
• www.amazon.com
• Panoramic Battle Fields
• http//www.jatruck.com/stonewall/

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Activities

• Students will use the internet to find primary
  sources, choose three, and write a paragraph each
  describing them.
• Students will use the internet to find songs or
  poems from the Civil War era from both sides and
  compare in a paragraph some differences between
  them.

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Activities, cont.

• Students will research Ulysses S. Grant and his
  role in the Civil War. They will complete a
  worksheet.
• Students will use the internet to compile a list
  of novels about the Civil War.
• Students will view panoramic views of Civil War
  battlefields.