This week in our History class, we learned about the individual battles that were fought over the civil war. To help us learn about each of the battles, we created a scavenger hunt for each of the battles. For this lesson our essential question was: Who was the ultimate victor in each the theaters of war: East West, and Naval, and what are some commonalities you can identify in the reasons for the results of the battles? For this scavenger hunt, all the students were each given
a battle. We were then instructed to create a short slide on the battle. The things that we included in the slides were the theater, who won, and the reasons why. The battle I was given was
Sherman's Georgia campaigns.
create a Qr Code for the slide, and were to print out the Qr code. We then posted these QR-code papers around the school and created a loose scavenger hunt out of it. After we finished the scavenger hunt, we created a
padlet outlining all the outcomes of the battles. The
padlet shows that overall the Union won the majorities of the battles that occurred during the civil war.
For the slides, we were required to
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The Pad let for our class on the Civil War |
Most of the theaters were inevitable wins for the Union, the western theater was dominated by the Union because of the Union's more developed supply lines, and the naval theater was Union dominated because of the near non-existence of a confederate navy. The only theater the Union didn't dominate in was the Eastern theater, but that was mostly due to the fact that the Eastern confederate generals were better that the Union's eastern leadership. The only reason that the Civil war had the outcome that it did was because of the Union capture of the Mississippi, splicing the Confederacy in half, and the
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