The Civil War - Google Earth Style!

Location	Activity	Google Earth Content
1. Show South Carolina's secession from the United States.	Have them read Wikipedia and find the reasons for South Carolina's secession.	Have Wikipedia information on American Civil War.
2. Show Fort Sumter - where the first shots were fired.	Have students write in their journal how they would feel if all supplies were cut off from them.	Show pictures of Fort Sumter and have Wikipedia content on Fort Sumter.
3. Show Emancipation Proclamation took effect in the northern states.	Have them write in thier journal how they would feel if they were just freed from slavery.	Show images of slaves, Abraham Lincoln and have Wikipedia pages from emancipation proclamation.
4.Show were the Battle of Gettysburg and where Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address.	Read the Gettysburg Address and write in their journal reactions to it.	Show images of Gettysburg, Have Wikipedia page information, and the actual Gettysburg Address.
Show the outline of the United States at the time of the Civil war. Link the four events they are learning about with a line.