Miss Bartee's 4th grade classroom has a unit planned on the US Civil War. The class has 20 students, with the majority being white. Over the course of a week, students will research the causes and key events of the Civil War by watching videos, creating posters, and developing a PowerPoint presentation. They will analyze causes, timeline, important figures, and outcomes. Students will use technology like the internet, PowerPoint, and videos to complete their research and presentations, which are aimed at building an understanding of the Civil War with 80% accuracy.

1. My Classroom: Miss. Bartee
 My 4th 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 Youtube videos
about Civil War)
 Day 2- Timeline of main event’s of Civil War (posters in groups using
PowerPoint or Glogster)
 Day 3- Important Figures of the Civil War (research in groups)
 Day 4- Outcome of the Civil War ( PowerPoint and Podcast)
 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 or Glogster to present it to
the class, watch videos from Youtube on the Civil War, and listen to
my podcast about the outcome of the Civil War.

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