Lesson Plans

The following lesson plans are suggested guidelines. Teachers should decide for themselves whether the material is appropriate for the age and maturity levels of their classes. Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed to download these lesson plans (PDF)

• Civil War Curriculum
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• The U.S. Colored Troops
• Election of 1864
• Creating a Historic Site

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Activities

• Mapping the Civil War
• Genealogical Search
• Reader's Theatre:   Introduction   |   Elementary   |   Middle
• Preservation Activities for the Classroom
• Atlanta & March to the Sea (with Post-Reading Quiz)
• Reconstruction
• Language Arts: Chronological Sentence Order  — Hardtack
• Civil War Figures as Examples of Character (One — Day Activity)

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More Resources

Other Civil War-related lesson plans can be found at the National Register of Historic Places and the National History Day websites.

If you have a Civil War-related lesson plan to share with other teachers, please e-mail our education department. If you would like to submit a lessons plans or have any questions about the lesson plans, please contact Jen Rosenberry at jrosenberry@civilwar.org.

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Permission to use the CWPT curriculum is granted for individual classroom use only. All other uses must be approved in writing by the Civil War Preservation Trust.