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Civil War lesson plan

I would like for students to create a Google map of significant battles during the Civil War. Students could use the atlases provided on the [|Nationalatlas.gov] Web site to chart the significant battles. They would be asked to include information on the location, dates, who won, and why this battle was significant. They can also find all of this information on the Nationalatlas.gov Web site. This could even be a class project where each student completes a certain number of battles and the Class creates one, more complete, map of Civil War battles. This lesson could be adapted for different age groups, based on how thorough you ask students to be, and it could also be used for different wars with the use of a different atlas Web site.

[|Nationalatlas.gov] is a great resource for all sorts of different maps. Ex: historical, geographical, environmental maps, etc.