Assignment+4

I combined Lesson 4 and 5

** Important People During the Civil War Podcast ** **Duration:** 7 class periods (45 minute periods) **Unit Plan Objective:** Students should understand how Harriet Tubman, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, and Stephan Douglas were significant during the Civil War period. **District Benchmark:** Procedures: Day 1: Day 2: Day 3: Day 4: Day 5 Day 6 Assessment: Day 7
 * Materials Needed: **
 * Social Studies book
 * Library books on each person
 * Encyclopedias
 * Seven computers with Podium (podcasting software)
 * Important people note taker
 * Important people card with requirements (source, date of birth, date of death, birthplace, and significance during Civil War)
 * HU-B2 Understands how historians use a variety of sources and evaluate the credibility of sources when learning about the past
 * USH-E1 Understands the economic, social and political differences which led to the Civil War
 * State Standards: **
 * B.8.1 Interpret the past using a variety of sources, such as biographies, diaries, journals, artifacts, eyewitness interviews, and other primary source materials, and evaluate the credibility of sources used
 * B.8.7 Identify significant events and people in the major eras of United States and world history
 * B.8.12 Describe how history can be organized and analyzed using various criteria to group people and events chronologically, geographically, thematically, topically, and by issues
 * Teacher will have students choose a card with one of the seven important people during the Civil War ( Harriet Tubman, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, and Stephan Douglas). Each student will be in a group of 3-4 students to work on the podcast together. The cards will have a certain source they must use to get their information from: encyclopedia, website, book, and on-line source. Each student will find why their person was significant to the Civil War by using their specific source as indicated on their card.
 * Go to the library and give students time to research their person using the source indicated on their card. They must find all the information on their card: date of birth, date of death, birth place, and why they were significant during the Civil War
 * Have students meet with their groups and go over the information they gathered. They should compare their dates and information and see if they notice any differences and similarities with dates and facts they gathered.
 * Inform students they will be creating a podcast to teach the class what they learned about the person they researched. Students can work with their groups on writing a script about person.
 * Give the students the rest of the period to write their scripts.
 * Give students time to work on scripts and rehearse
 * Have students listen to teacher’s podcast- this will give the students an example of what one would sound like.
 * Also have students listen to podcast on Harriet Tubman- from [|www.mypodcast.com]
 * Go to the library to introduce the software, Podium.
 * Go over an example on how to record a podcast.
 * Give students the rest of the period to record their podcasts.
 * Show students how to save the podcast correctly.
 * Go to the library to finish working on podcasts.
 * Teach students how to add sound to the background. Use Soundzabound.com for music choices.
 * Use the rest of the period to edit podcasts and save them to my flashdrive.
 * Distribute the Important People Note taker worksheet to each student
 * Play the podcasts and have students take notes while they listen
 * Students will be assessed on their note taking worksheet. Also, the final Civil War Unit assessment has a short section where students have to define the 7 important people during the Civil War.