Lesson Overview
This lesson will explore the Civil War battle of Secessionville and its connection to the unique ecosystem of the Carolina coast's salt marshes. Students will analyze the importance of these marshes, then participate in a food web activity and artwork project to understand the delicate balance of life within them.
Essential Question
How do seemingly unrelated events, like a Civil War battle, highlight the importance of a specific ecosystem?
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Other Instructional Materials or Notes:
5, 6, 7, 8
Materials
- Who Am I? Food Web Activity Materials
- Multiple sets of the student index cards (varies depending on class size)
- Teacher index card set
- Cutout arrows
- Scratch Paper
- Colored pencils, markers, crayons, etc.
- Scissors
- Optional: Wildlife magazines to cut pictures out of
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- 8-4 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the multiple events that led to the Civil War.
- The outbreak of the Civil War was the culminating event in a decades-long series of regional issues that threatened American unity and South Carolina’s identity as one of the United States. To understand how South Carolina came to be at the cent...
- 8-4.5 Compare the military strategies of the North and the South during the Civil War and the fulfillment of these strategies in South Carolina and in the South as a whole, including the attack on Fort Sumter, the Union blockade of Charleston and other...
- 8-4.6 Compare the differing impact of the Civil War on South Carolinians in each of the various social classes, including those groups defined by race, gender, and age.
- The outbreak of the Civil War was the culminating event in a decades-long series of regional issues that threatened American unity and South Carolina’s identity as one of the United States. To understand how South Carolina came to be at the cent...
- 5-LS2 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
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Lesson Partners: South Carolina Department of Natural Resources