Lesson Overview
Students delve into Fort Lamar's history and the Civil War through a documentary. Analyzing photographs and recreating a soldier's belongings, they explore how artifacts offer unique insights into the daily lives of soldiers beyond traditional historical sources.
Essential Question
How can analyzing artifacts, like personal belongings, provide historians with insights into the daily lives and experiences of individuals from the past, beyond what can be learned from traditional historical sources?
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Other Instructional Materials or Notes:
4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- “Civil War Uniform & Equipment Activity” Handouts (1 per student).
- Opaque envelopes containing the cut out set of cards (1 envelope & set of
artifacts for every 3-4 students)
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- 4.4.CO Compare the economic and political causes of the Civil War.
- 4.4.CC Identify and evaluate the economic, political, and social changes experienced throughout the Civil War.
- 8.3.CE Examine consequences of the major Civil War military strategies.
- This indicator was designed to encourage inquiry into the Civil War focusing on the impacts of military strategies and major turning points on South Carolina and the U.S.
- 8.3.CC Analyze debates and efforts to recognize the natural rights of marginalized groups during the period of expansion and sectionalism.
- This indicator was designed to encourage inquiry into the continuities and changes of the experiences of marginalized groups such as African Americans, Native Americans and women, as the U.S. expanded westward and grappled with the development of new states.
- 8.3.E Utilize a variety of primary and secondary sources to analyze multiple perspectives on the effects of the Civil War within South Carolina and the United States.
- RI.MC.7 Research events, topics, ideas, or concepts through multiple media, formats, and in visual, auditory, and kinesthetic modalities.
- W.RC.6 Write independently, legibly, and routinely for a variety of tasks, purposes, and audiences over short and extended time frames.
- C Communication
- USHC.2.P Summarize the impact of technological changes and social developments on the U.S., including the Civil War, during the period 1815–1865.
- This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into how technology fostered the growth of the cotton industry, the factory system, and urban centers. In addition, this indicator facilitates inquiry into how the Abolitionist Movement and Women's Rights Movements encouraged reforms.
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Lesson Partners: South Carolina Department of Natural Resources