Civil War Battlefield Project

Each group then randomly selected a Civil War battle to research. Once each group has selected their battle, they will each choose a job:

• Historian: Research and give descriptions of battle, and explain its importance to the War, and present key figures from both sides. They also identified 4 important world events during the time of their battle in a powerpoint or keynote presentation.
• Scientist: Research the following information: either a weapon or medical treatment (each group will pick a different one to research), environmental conditions, and location, terrain, and topography of their battlefield and present it as their part of the powerpoint or keynote presentation
• Statistician: Research and present statistical information on casualties, ammunition, and food rations from both sides and organized the data bar graph to be inserted into the presentation. They also needed to compare casualties and total cost of the Civil War to other wars and organized data on a bar graph.
• Cartographer: Create a 3-D, scale-model of the battlefield. It should contain a key that describes locations, troop movements, the topography, and labels the appropriate units.

The following 35 Civil War battles were carefully selected , making sure enough information is available for each student.