Unit Plan

1. A Journey into the
Civil War
By: Kayla Napier

2. Analyze the Learner
Class Characteristics:
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Fifth grade
Ages: 10-11 years old
Twenty-five students
Twelve girls
Thirteen boys
Four African Americans
Three students with ADHD
Learning Styles:
I will be incorporating a variety of teaching strategies through
the utilization of graphs and timelines for my categorical
learners; videos and virtual tours to benefit my audio-visual
learners; as well as role-play and cooperative learning groups for
my kinesthetic learners (including those with ADHD).

3. State Objectives
• My fifth grade students will describe the major issues
and events that led to the Civil War and identify the key
battles that influenced the war’s outcome by utilizing
cooperative learning groups, timelines, graphs,
interactive maps, videos, reenactment, blogs, online
research, and journaling by the end of the week with
95% accuracy.

4. Daily Plans
• Day One: Economic and Cultural Differences between
the North and South
• Day Two: Political Issues and Southern Secession
o “Bleeding Kansas”
o Election of 1860
• Day Three: Important Individuals
• Day Four: Key Battles and Strategies
o Battle of Bull Run
o Battle of Gettysburg
• Day Five: Outcome and Effects of the Civil War

5. Incorporation of Technology
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Prezi
Smart Board
YouTube
Web Quests
Blogs
iPads
Interactive Battlefield Maps
Microsoft Word

6. Works Cited:
• Bleeding Kansas: Behind the Legend. (2007, May 8). Retrieved from
You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYpcyS48xqE
• Civil War 150. (2013, September 13). Retrieved from History.com:
http://www.history.com/interactives/civil-war-150#/who-they-were
• Civil War Animated. (2013, September 14). Retrieved from History
Animated: http://www.civilwaranimated.com/
• Disunion and the Civil War. (2013, April 23). Retrieved from New
York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/10/29/opinion/2010102
9-civil-war.html?_r=0
• Gardner, E. (2007, October 6). Civil War: Traveling Back in Time.
Retrieved from Zunal.com: http://zunal.com/process.php?w=1034
• Map of Antietam. (2013, September). Retrieved from Civil War Trust:
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/antietam/maps/antietammap1.
html
• Roberts, T. (2007, September). The Civil War- A Nation Divided.
Retrieved from Zunal.com: http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=3