Virtual Field Trip Activity

7Paul Quezada and Felisa Isakson

ETEC570

Virtual Civil War

Battlefield Tourfrom the website

TEACHING THE CIVIL WAR

With TECHNOLOGY

Step One – Explore one of the national parks

According to the website

“The Civil War is an integral part of United States history…its battlefields remain some of the most popular tourist attractions in the country.”

For your first activity, explore one of the battlefields that is a national park today:

1. Gettysburg

2. Manassas

3. Antietam

4. Shiloh

Complete questions 1 – 4 on this Google Form for credit! http://goo.gl/forms/xl1KknF33U

Step Two – Create a Photo Gallery For your next activity go to the Photo Gallery link of the battlefields.

1. Gettysburg,

2. Manassas,

3. Antietam, or

4. Shiloh.

Select photos from current to historical, portraits to monuments. Download the pictures onto a multimedia presentation such as Powerpoint to create a poster that looks similar to this one.

You may use the template on the next slide

to

create your photo gallery

Caption Photo #1

Battlefield

Photo Gallery (Template)

Caption Photo #3 Caption Photo #4

Ca[tion Photo #2

Description of

Photo #4Description of

Photo #3

Description of

Photo #1

Description of

Photo #2

Step Three – Social Media

Last step on your virtual field trip! Find the

twitter or facebook links connected to your

national park.

1. What are some recent posts about?

2. What kind of events or activities are

currently happening?

This last step will be a 1 minute

oral presentation.

Tell us what are some recent

events happening at your national

park and make it exciting!

Social Media links

1. Gettysburg

2. Manassas

3. Antietam

4. Shiloh.

Evaluation

Now that you have finished, go to this link to

evaluate your learning experience.

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Thank you for participating!