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CIVIL WAR - ACTIVITIES

This section includes ALL of our online and printable Civil War related Activities

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Abraham Lincoln's Dream

Description: This printout describes Abraham Lincoln’s famous dream about his own assassination and then requires students to describe and draw a scene from a powerful dream they’ve had.

Type: Social Studies Prompt

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and four multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4

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Abraham Lincoln's Assassination Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Presidential Years Part 1

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Presidential Years Part 2

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Presidential Years Part 3

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Presidential Years Part 4

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Presidential Years Part 1 - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Presidential Years Part 2 - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Presidential Years Part 3 - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Presidential Years Part 4 - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Abraham Lincoln Letter to Fanny Mccullough - Primary Source Analysis

Description: This printable activity requires students to analyze a famous condolence letter written by Abraham Lincoln to a teenage girl after her father was killed in the Civil War.

Type: Social Studies Prompt

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

The Abolitionist Hall-of-Fame

Description: Pretend you have been chosen to induct Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe into the fictional abolitionist hall-of-fame. Your first job, however, is to design a “flyer” that advertises the inductees and the reasons for their inductions. In the spaces provided continue the narratives that highlight each inductee’s accomplishments. Secondly, design an abolitionist hall-of-fame medal each would receive upon their entry. Medals can include icons, symbols, color, and their names.

Type: Social Studies Prompt

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Appomattox Courthouse United States Postage Stamp Coloring Page

Description: This beautiful coloring page features a postage stamp commemorating the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Battle of the Ironclads Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 555 Words; LEXILE: 1110

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Battle of Shiloh Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

First Battle of Bull Run Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Battle Breakdown: Battle of Antietam

Description: This awesome printable helps students to essentially diagram battles! It requires students to write the cause, the players in the battle, the victor, and the effects of the battle. It comes with a descriptive narrative about the battle that students can use.

Type: Social Studies Prompt

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Battle of Antietam Paragraph Paramedics

Description: Find and correct the spelling, punctuation, and usage errors in the paragraph. Click on the error and then type in the correction. Immediate feedback is given.

Type: Literacy Drill

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Battle of Antietam Fact or Fiction - Online

Description: This fun activity requires students to read an Antietam passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. The program gives immediate feedback.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Battle of Antietam Fact or Fiction - Printable

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Battle of Antietam passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Battle of Antietam Correct-me Passage

Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about the Battle of Antietam that has nine factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 6

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Battle of Antietam Power Point Presentation

Description: This is a slideshow that details the Battle of Antietam in 1862.

Type: Presentation

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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The Great Squander at the Battle of Antietam

Description: This historical prompt challenges students to consider the great opportunities squandered by Union General George McClellan prior to Antietam. Then, to think of and write about a time when they may have squandered a "golden" opportunity.

Type: Social Studies Prompt

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

The Battles of Bull Run Text Structure Reading Comprehension

Description: This activity requires students to read through four Bull Run-themed paragraph and to identify the text structures as: cause and effect, problem-solution, chronological, and compare and contrast

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

First Battle of Bull Run Fact or Fiction - Printable

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a First Battle of Bull Run passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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First Battle of Bull Run Fact or Fiction - Online

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a First Battle of Bull Run passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. The program gives immediate feedback.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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First Battle of Bull Run Correct-me Passage

Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about the First Battle of Bull Run that has eight factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

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The Second Battle of Bull Run: The Sequel

Description: This activity requires students to compare and contrast the two battles of Bull Run in the same manner they’d compare an original book or movie with its sequel. Check out Battles of the Civil War for detailed descriptions about both battles.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

The Battle of Chancellorsville Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback .

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

The Battle of Chancellorsville Reading Comprehension - Printable

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF. PASSAGE LENGTH = 730 words; LEXILE = 1210

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville Power Point Presentation

Description: This is a slideshow that details these two epic battles during the heart of the Civil War.

Type: Presentation

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Stonewall Jackson - How Emphasis on Words Changes Meanings of Sentences

Description: This fun activity requires students to analyze how emphasis can change the meaning of identical sentences, and describe what Bernard Bee may have meant by uttering the famous words "there is Jackson standing like a stone wall." Was he inspired or angry? See how emphasis changes the meaning of his words.

Type: Social Studies Prompt

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Battle Breakdown: First Battle of Bull Run

Description: This awesome printable helps students to essentially diagram battles! It requires students to write the cause, the players in the battle, the victor, and the effects of the battle. It comes with a descriptive narrative about the battle that students can use.

Type: Social Studies Prompt

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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First Battle of Bull Run Activities Bundle - All of the Printable First Bull Run Activities on the Site

Description: This activity includes all of the printable First Battle of Bull Run activities on the site.

Type: Printable Units

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Belle Boyd Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions about the Civil War's most infamous female spy.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Best Sellers!

Description: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was the top-selling novel in 19th century America. This activity requires students to try to guess the top ten best-selling children's books of all time. Answer sheet included.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Bleeding Kansas Billboard - Causes of the Civil War

Description: This activity requires students to build use their knowledge about the forces that created "Bleeding Kansas" to design a "billboard" urging abolitionists to settle in Kansas.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Categorizing Confederate, Union, and Border States - Online

Description: This "containers" exercise requires students to drag and drop math the states to different containers depending on their political affiliation during the Civil War. It gives immediate feedback.

Type: Categorization

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Choosing a Path Through History - the Story of Dr. Mudd

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Civil War Challenge and Discovery

Description: This game will test your knowledge of the affiliation of the states and figures of the Civil War, the locations of the major battles, and the advantages the sides had over each other. With each answer you provide you’ll learn a wealth of information!

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Civil War Battles Digital Scavenger Hunt

Description: This interactive activity allows students to use the interactive Civil War Battles map to find the answers to the scavenger hunt questions.

Type: Scavenger hunts

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Civil War Talk - Who am I?

Description: Students must read the “conversations” from eight Civil War legends and determine who is talking.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Civil War Causes Reading Comprehension Bundle

Description: This packet contains eight reading comprehension passages and question sets based on various causes of the Civil War such as Slavery, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Brown Rebellion, and others.

Type: Printable Units

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Civil War Figures Reading Comprehension Bundle

Description: This 85-page bundle contains 29 reading comprehension activities based on important figures of the Civil War. It included reading passages and multiple-choice question sets, fact or fiction exercises, virtual history teacher exercises, deep thought questions, and main idea studies. Absolutely perfect for grades six and up! All answers included.

Type: Printable Units

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Civil War Battles Reading Comprehension Bundle

Description: This 60-page bundle contains 16 reading comprehension activities based on important battles of the Civil War. It includes reading passages and multiple-choice question sets, fact or fiction exercises, text structures, and battle breakdowns. Absolutely perfect for grades six and up! All answers included.

Type: Printable Units

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Civil War Themes Bundle

Description: This 80 page bundle contains 27 different activities, critical-thought exercises, role-play, and writing prompts based on Civil War themes. Themes include forgiveness, seizing or squandering opportunities, suffering, dreams of better times, irony, heroism, and many more.

Type: Printable Units

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Civil War Activities Bundle - All 82 Civil War-themed Printable Activities on MrNussbaum.com

Description: This 202-page bundle contains 82 Civil War-related printable activities including reading comprehension passages and question sets, critical thought activities, Civil War-themed activities, writing prompts, role-plays, and much, much more! This is a $30 value, free for members of MrN365.com.

Type: Printable Units

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Civil War Word Search - Online

Description: This is an online word search with the Civil War-themed words. Choose with or without a timer.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Counting Chickens Before They Hatch: The Battle of Shiloh

Description: This writing prompt requires students to relate to P.G.T. Beauregard’s "complete victory" telegraph at Shiloh by writing about a time they "counted" chickens, or, examples from literature of movies.

Type: Social Studies Prompt

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Death in the Civil War

Description: This page describes the gruesome reality of the Civil War - how hundreds of thousands of people from both sides died in battle, from disease, and in squalid prisons.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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College Mascots

Description: This activity challenges students to dream up meanings for four iconic college mascots - the North Carolina Tarheel, Oklahoma Tarheel, Kansas Jayhawk, and Arkansas Razorbacks.

Type: Social Studies Prompt

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Dr. Samuel Mudd - Deep Thought Questions

Description: The printable narrative that describes the role Dr. Mudd played after Lincoln's assassination. It includes three short-answer questions regarding the main ideas of the article content, critical thought about the content, and vocabulary from the passage.

Type: Social Studies Prompt

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

The Election of 1860 Reading Comprehension - Printable

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Election of 1860 Power Point Presentation

Description: This is a slideshow that details the Election of 1860.

Type: Presentation

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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I'll Always Remember Where I Was.... (Emancipation Proclamation)

Description: This historical prompts requires students to imagine the earth-shaking effect the news of the Emancipation Proclamation had on Americans in 1862. In the spirit of the Emancipation Proclamation, students must write about the biggest news event of their lives and describe its impact.

Type: Social Studies Prompt

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Emancipation Proclamation Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH = 270 Words; LEXILE = 1110

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Fall of Petersburg and Richmond Power Point Presentation

Description: This is a slideshow that details the last days of the dying Confederacy.

Type: Presentation

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Famous Last Words

Description: This activity describes Stonewall Jackson's famous last words after being shot at the Battle of Chancellorsville and challenges students to pen their own final words, or, those of a character in movies or literature.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Forgiveness - A Civil War Writing Prompt

Description: Following the ill-fated infantry charge known as Pickett's Charge, on the last day of Gettysburg, Confederate Major General George Pickett was said to have harbored a life-long bitterness toward Robert E. Lee, who ordered the charge. This writing prompt requires students to think about the concept of forgiveness and describe the process he or she goes through when deciding whether or not to forgive someone.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Fort Sumter Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 358 Words; LEXILE: 1210

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

CC Standards:

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Battle Breakdown: Fort Sumter

Description: This awesome printable helps students to essentially diagram battles! It requires students to write the cause, the players in the battle, the victor, and the effects of the battle. It comes with a descriptive narrative about the battle that students can use.

Type: Social Studies Prompt

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 6

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Battle of Fort Sumter Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Fort Sumter Power Point Presentation

Description: This is a slideshow that details the bombardment of Fort Sumter in 1861

Type: Presentation

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Fort Sumter Correct-me Passage

Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about the Battle of Fort Sumter that has eight factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Fort Sumter Fact or Fiction - Online

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Fort Sumter passage and then, to sort 11 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. The program gives immediate feedback.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Fort Sumter Fact or Fiction - Printable

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Fort Sumter passage and then, to sort 11 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Frederick Douglass Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH = 542 Words; LEXILE = 1010

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

CC Standards:

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Frederick Douglass Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH = 542 Words; LEXILE = 1010

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Frederick Douglass Cloze Reading - Online

Description: This online cloze reading exercise requires students to type the words from the word bank into the correct fields in the paragraph. It gives immediate feedback.

Type: Cloze Reading

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Frederick Douglass Correct-me Passage - Online

Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about the life of Frederick Douglass that has seven factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Frederick Douglass Fact or Fiction

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Frederick Douglass passage and then, to sort 11 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. The program gives immediate feedback.

Type: Categorization

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Frederick Douglass Fact or Fiction - Printable

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Frederick Douglass passage and then, to sort 11 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Type: Categorization

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Frederick Douglass and Text Elements - Paragraph headings

Description: This printable activity requires students to match the eight different headings to their correct paragraphs.

Type: Literacy Drill

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Frederick Douglass and Text Elements - Topic Sentence and Supporting Details

Description: This printable activity requires students to select sentences from a series of sentences that fit under the given topic sentence, and to construct a paragraph based on the logical order of the selected sentences.

Type: Literacy Drill

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Front Page News: The Compromise of 1850

Description: This activity requires students to create the cover of a newspaper (with images) that features the four stipulations of the Compromise of 1850.

Type: Social Studies Prompt

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Gettysburg Battlefield Landmarks

Description: Students must use the process of elimination, problem solving, and logic to successfully label the important points during the Battle of Gettysburg such as Little Round Top, Cemetery Ridge, Culp’s Hill, and 15 others.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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A Prelude to the Battle of Gettysburg - Reading Comprehension - Printable

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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The Battle of Gettysburg Day One - Reading Comprehension - Printable

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF. PASSAGE LENGTH = 432 Words; LEXILE = 1210

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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The Battle of Gettysburg Day Two - Reading Comprehension - Printable

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF. PASSAGE LENGTH = 605 Words; LEXILE = 1410

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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The Battle of Gettysburg Day Three - Reading Comprehension - Printable

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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The Battle of Gettysburg Day One - Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback and a detail score report. PASSAGE LENGTH = 432 Words; LEXILE = 1210

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

CC Standards:

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

The Battle of Gettysburg Day Two - Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback and a detail score report. PASSAGE LENGTH = 605 Words; LEXILE = 1410

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 6, 7 +

CC Standards:

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

The Battle of Gettysburg Day Three - Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback and a detail score report.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

CC Standards:

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Battle of Gettysburg and Siege of Vicksburg Power Point Presentation

Description: This is a slideshow that details these massive battles, which ultimately proved to be the turning point in the Civil War.

Type: Presentation

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Great Ironies of the Civil War: The Story of Wilmer McLean

Description: This activity describes the ironic situation of Wilmer McLean, whose claim to fame was the Civil War "started in his front yard and ended in his front parlor." This activity requires students to make a comic about the situation.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Grant's Overland Campaign Power Point Presentation

Description: This is a slideshow that details the brutal battles which collectively are known as Grant's Overland Campaign.

Type: Presentation

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Halls of History - Online U.S. History Game

Description: Welcome to Halls of History! This game will test your visual knowledge of American history. There are seven sections to the game, five of which cover historical eras until the Civil War, and two of which cover famous people in American history. Click on each image in history to enlarge and inspect and then answer the question associated with it. When you are done with the game, you'll get a percentage score for each section.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Harriet Beecher Stowe Reading Comprehension

Description: This activity features a short historical passage followed by seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 376 Words; LEXILE: 1010

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

CC Standards:

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Harriet Beecher Stowe Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource requires students to read a short biographical passage and answer seven multiple choice-questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

CC Standards:

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Harriet Tubman Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 632; LEXILE: 1010

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

CC Standards:

Lang. Arts Standards:

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Harriet Tubman Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and eight multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 187 Words; LEXILE: 750

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5

CC Standards:

Lang. Arts Standards:

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Harriet Tubman Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and eight multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 187 Words; LEXILE: 750

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6, 7 +

CC Standards:

Lang. Arts Standards:

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Harriet Tubman Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

CC Standards:

Lang. Arts Standards:

Harriet Tubman - On the Underground Railroad Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH = 414 Words; LEXILE = 1010

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

CC Standards:

Lang. Arts Standards:

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Harriet Tubman - On the Underground Railroad Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 414 Words; LEXILE = 1010

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

CC Standards:

Lang. Arts Standards:

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Harriet Tubman Quotes - Inspirational Portrait

Description: This activity requires students to choose from four different Harriet Tubman quotes and to design an inspiration portrait (such as those in office buildings) based on the quote. Great for hanging up in the hallways or classroom bulletin boards.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Virtual History Teacher - Grading a Harriet Tubman Test

Description: Students play the role of a virtual history teacher and must grade responses to three questions about the life of Harriet Tubman. Each response is incomplete, and students must fill in the missing information in the "response" section. Students can use the Harriet Tubman biography for reference.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

CC Standards:

Lang. Arts Standards:

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Henry Clay - The Peacemaker

Description: This prompt describes the role Henry Clay played in brokering the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 and then asks students to write about a time that they've played "peacemaker."

Type: Social Studies Prompt

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

CC Standards:

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Histomatics - Using Civil War Battles Data to Make a Box And Whisker Plot

Description: This activity walks students through the process of making a Box and Whisker plot on a step-by-step basis. Then, it requires students to use a chart that describes the number of major Civil War battles in each state, to make a box and whisker plot.

Type: Math Workshop

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

CC Standards:

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