Miss Bartee's 5th grade social studies class consists of 20 students, with a racial makeup of 80% white and 20% African American. Over the course of a week, the class will study the American Civil War through notes, videos, poster projects, research groups, and student PowerPoint presentations. Students will analyze causes and key events of the war, important figures, and outcomes, using the internet for research and Microsoft PowerPoint for presentations. Videos will be kept at a PG rating given the maturity level of the students. The main objective is for students to explain the Civil War with 80% accuracy after these lessons.

1. My Classroom: Miss. Bartee
 My 5th grade class has a total of 20 students. My class is made up of 11
girls and 9 boys, and 80% White and 20% African- American.

2. Topic: Civil War
 Analyze the learner: When discussing Civil War in a classroom, I have to
take in consideration the maturity level of my classroom and keep the war
scenes in videos to a PG rating.

3. Main Objective
 My student’s will be able to explain the Civil War; after researching the Civil
War, watching videos, creating posters, and presenting a PowerPoint by
the end of the week with 80% of accuracy.
Schedule:
 Day 1- Cause of the Civil War ( intro notes and videos about Civil War)
 Day 2- Timeline of main event’s of Civil War (posters in groups)
 Day 3- Important Figures of the Civil War (research in groups)
 Day 4- Outcome of the Civil War ( PowerPoint)
 Day 5- Presentation Day(PowerPoints in Groups)

4. Use of technology
 In my classroom my students will use the internet to find information on
the Civil War, use Microsoft PowerPoint to present it to the class, and
watch videos on the Civil War.

5. Worked Cited
 http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/northamerica/after1500/history/civilwa
r.htm
 http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/abraham-lincoln
 http://civilwarhome.com/timeline.htm