The concept of a WebQuest was developed by Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University in 1995 and they are inquiry based lessons that where learners obtain information from the Internet. These are very popular with teachers as a method for promoting inquiry while...
MERRY CHRISTMAS I have blogged about Christmas in the past so I thought that I would continue the tradition of showing more connections of Christmas and the Civil War. This time I am going to focus on a famous sketch of “Merry Old Santa Claus” by Thomas...
In Part 1 of of this series we started to look at some of the key words and concepts in the Gettysburg Address. Let’s continue our exploration by looking for some deeper meanings. Let’s begin again with the Wordle of Mr. Lincoln’s Famous...
I have talked about the Gettysburg Address in the past but during the 2010 Civil War Preservation Trust Teacher’s Institute I attended a session by Mr. Chuck Teague on Teaching the Gettysburg Address. He has graciously given me permission to share some of...
A quick post today just to share a resource that I found. I was doing some research for another blog post and came across this great collection of lesson plans related to the Civil War. The collection is from Fitchburg State College and is called Teaching American...
Thanks to the Wig-Wags Blog for posting this interesting article on The Civil War’s Last Veterans, Wives and Stats to bring us even MORE statistics to ponder. Yippee!! According to the post, the following table comes from Fact Sheet: America’s Wars by the...
