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Standard 5-1

5-1 The student will demonstrate an understanding of Reconstruction and its impact on the United States.

Grade(s): 5

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2011

Reconstruction Amendments
Reconstruction Amendments

Lesson

Students will complete research on one of the Reconstruction amendments. After completing research, students will create a project demonstrating their knowledge of that particular amendment as if they...

Amendments during Reconstruction
Amendments during Reconstruction

Lesson

Students will be able to identify parts of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, and how each impacted the people of the United States during Reconstruction.

Sharecropping Simulation
Sharecropping Simulation

Lesson

Students will get to time travel and see what life of a sharecropper was like. Did they make the right choice making a deal with the landowner? Let them take a trip back and time and see what they...

Reconstruction - 3 Plans
Reconstruction - 3 Plans

Lesson

Students will research the 3 plans during Reconstruction (Lincoln, Johnson, Congress) and decide which plan they would use and why.

Analyzing Political Cartoons
Analyzing Political Cartoons

Lesson

Students will learn different strategies that will help them to analyze the overall meaning of a political cartoon. The cartoons are focused on the Reconstruction Era. Once the students become...

Discrimination in 20th Century
Discrimination in 20th Century

Lesson

: Explain the practice of discrimination and the passage of discriminatory laws in the United States and their impact on the rights of African Americans, including the Jim Crow laws and the ruling in...

What Price Freedom! Civil War & Reconstruction
What Price Freedom! Civil War & Reconstruction

Lesson

Students will discover the meaning of Reconstruction through hands-on activities.The teacher will use the book Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule, Harriet Gillem Robinet and Wendell Minor, Simon & Schuster...