The document provides additional lesson plan ideas for teaching about the American Civil War. Some ideas include having students analyze Civil War era photographs and music to understand the emotions of the time. Other ideas involve exploring local cemeteries for Civil War soldier graves, recreating Civil War field drills and camp activities like building lean-tos or measuring water depth, and creating timelines or word webs to review major events and vocabulary from the Civil War era.

1. Additional Lesson Plan Ideas<br />CIVIL WAR PHOTOS- Students select a photograph or series of photographs from the Civil War and are to create a believable story that tells about the photo(s).

2. CIVIL WAR MUSIC- Students research and select music/songs of the Civil War era. They are to analyze the music, lyrics, and other information they can gather about it. Then they are to interpret how the song or music can express emotion. They can share this with the class by oral presentation, written summary, etc.

3. FIELD WORK/ CEMETARY EXPLORATION- Students can determine if there are Civil War soldiers buried in your area at local cemeteries. They may need to work in cooperation with local libraries or archives to complete research. The students can then seek out the burial sites, take pictures or make a chalk marking of the stones to share with the class in an oral presentation on their hometown heroes.

4. QUILT PICTURES- Students can work in conjunction with their math classes to create tessellations that create quilt patterns. They can then create their own quilt square which may be collectively added to a classroom version.