TPACK - The Civil War

I am going to go through four important events of the Civil War with students. The core content I am using is the fifth grade social studies core:

Standard 4
Students will understand that the 19th century was a time of incredible change for the United States, including geographic expansion, constitutional crisis, and economic growth.
Objective 3 Evaluate the course of events of the Civil War and its impact both immediate and long-term.
a. Identify the key ideas, events, and leaders of the Civil War using primary sources (e.g. Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, news accounts, photographic records, diaries).

The pedagogy I will be using is guided discovery learning. I will have the information on Google Earth for students and they will discover it, think about it, and write about it.

The technology I will be using is Google Earth. I will create a kmz file for students to open using Google Earth. They will use Google Earth to look at places where events in the Civil War took place. This is a great fit with the content because students can see where the Civil War was taking place and actually see the places where important events took place.