The following post is from Dawn Crawford, a training specialist with netTrekker.  Her post discusses some Civil War lesson plan ideas available in netTrekker.

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One of my favorite memories from middle school is a family trip to Gettysburg.  I will never get the memorials and stories at the battlefield out of my head – great stuff!  The trip and pictures from the trip would have so much more meaning if I could supplement them with additional knowledge of the different pieces of that famous event.

The Civil War Era resources found in netTrekker d.i. span over 100 topics from Abolition to Ziegler’s Grove in the form of interactive media, lesson plans, learning games, primary source documents, videos, pictures, maps and much more. These resources can be accessed by individual students or for whole class instruction.

I log in to netTrekker d.i., click on the Middle School tab, drill down into the Social Studies topic area, select U.S. History then Civil War Era OR I can enter the keyword phrase “Civil War” and click Search.  From these 1000+ resources, it is very simple to see only the types of activities I want to use by using the different Refinement menus.  Soon I am finding resources that take me back to that great family trip to Gettysburg.

netTrekker d.i. has nearly 300 Civil War resources cataloged in the Elementary section, over 1000 Civil War resources cataloged in the Middle School section and over 1000 Civil War resources cataloged in the High School section.  With this amazing selection of resources, I am sure that I can get my students as excited about learning about Gettysburg as I still am!