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Creating Civil War Multimedia

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What was it like to live through the Civil War? Learners investigate the question by creating multimedia presentations. With a scaffolded approach that includes research, creating a biopic poem, storyboard, and then polished multimedia capstone, scholars consider the point of view of various figures during the era, ranging from Clara Barton to Frederick Douglas.

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CCSS: Adaptable
Concepts
causes of the civil war, battles of the civil war, the united states civil war, civil war, biography writing, historical research, multimedia, multimedia presentations
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Additional Tags
social studies
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Instructional Ideas
  • Have pupils create biopic poems of their assigned people from the Civil War
  • Develop a class library of multi-media presentations as final projects for a unit on the Civil War
Classroom Considerations
  • Class members need access to research and presentation materials
Pros
  • Project is scaffolded and easy to adapt to existing resources
  • Rubrics and instructions are complete and make the project easy to implement
Cons
  • None