Objective: Students will research and present a project dealing with events or people important to the Civil War era.

Subjects: Social Studies, Art

Materials: Books, encyclopedias, internet, paper, pencils, pens, crayons, various materials to make illustration

Procedure:

1. Have students research particular people or events important to the Civil War era.

Suggestions:

Nat Turner's Rebellion                                                 Booker T. Washington

Robert E. Lee                                                                Frederick Douglass

JEB Stuart                                                                     William Lloyd Garrison

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson                                      Harriet Beecher Stowe

Ulysses S. Grant                                                            Emancipation Proclamation

Abraham Lincoln                                                            Bull Run

Jefferson Davis                                                              Fredericksburg

Daniel Webster                                                              Antietam

John C. Calhoun                                                             Gettysburg

Vicksburg                                                                        Appomatox

2. Have students make an illustration of their person or event. Examples: poster, model, drawing, or mobile.
3. Have students present their projects to the class. This should be done as an individual activity.