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Students Preserving Battlefields

Why should kids care about Civil War battlefields? And if your school administrator asks, how do you justify teaching battlefield preservation when your plate is already full with concepts from the SOLs? In this PowerPoint presentation, Carolyn Ivanoff (Shelton High School, Shelton, CT) explains how preservation of Civil War battlefields is crucial to understanding ourselves as a nation.

Bringing Civil War Curriculum and Preservation to the Classroom (html)

Bringing Civil War Curriculum and Preservation to the Classroom (PowerPoint)

Thomas E. DeVoe, an eighth-grade history teacher at Chester Stephens Mount Olive Middle School, has been featured in "Who's Who Among America's Teachers" five times and was named Outstanding History Teacher of New Jersey in 1988. DeVoe, who is also an author and a reenactor, not only engages his students with a sensory hands-on approach to teaching history but has been instrumental in raising community awareness of Civil War history through events such as "Blue and Gray Day." DeVoe inspires his students to preserve Civil War battlefield land, and these students go above and beyond all expectations. That inspires us!

After receiving a letter from Jim Lighthizer asking for funds to help save the 2nd Manassas battlefield, DeVoe visited the endangered site. The following excerpt is from a letter he wrote us…

Upon returning to school, I immediately consulted with our building principal who liked the idea and gave me permission to begin our little fundraiser. Using an empty plastic water bottle, I set up a small table in our school cafeteria. I had previously spoken about the project to my history classes and to the other history teachers in the building…

Are you looking for ways to get your students involved in fundraising? Click here for hands on activities to preserve battlefields! For an abbreviated version of ideas, click here.