This week in class we had a battle scavenger hunt. Each person in the class was given one battle of the Civil War. Once you searched the web and learned about the battle you created a Google doc that had four components; the title of the battle, the victor, the theater, and two bullet points describing the battle. The "theater" simply means where the battle took place; either the eastern theater, western theater, or naval theater (involving any body of water). Once the Google doc was made we each then made a QR code to our goggle doc using a qr generator. The QR codes were printed out and put in various placed through out the school. On the bottom of each Google doc were the instructions of where to find the next battle QR code. After finding and scanning the QR code you record the information from the Google doc into Evernote. After the scavenger hunt the class collaborated and created a Padlet on the patterns we found while taking notes of the battles.
Above is the class padlet
The essential question of the week was, "Who was the ultimate victor in each of the theaters of war; East, West, or Naval?", and "What are some commonalities you can identify in the reason for the result of battles?" As you can see on the class padlet, the Union dominated most of the western theater and naval theater while the eastern theater was primarily dominated by the Confederacy. For example the Union dominated the naval theater in battles such as the battle of Fort Henry and the battle of Fort Donelson. The Union had ships ready to fight so they were able to dominate the Naval theater. In the Western theater the Union were able to win many battles such as the battle of Shiloh and the battle of Chattanooga. The Union were able to surround and outnumber the Confederates in many battles, which caused them to dominate this theater. The Confederates were able to dominate the eastern theater because they were well supplied and more composed than the Union. Many battles
were won by the Confederates in the eastern theater such as the battles of Chancellorsville and Chickamauga. Overall it is shown that the Confederates were well supplied in the east while the Union had ships handy and well composed plans for the west. It was because of these commonalities throughout the battles that they dominated the theaters that they did.
At first when I heard that we were doing a scavenger hunt I thought it was an online scavenger hunt like we have done in he past. This type of scavenger hunt was very fun and more interesting. It was nice to be able to get out of class and walk around while still learning about the battles. Creating was fun too. Once my google doc of my battle was done I made the QR code. It was fun to make my own QR code and to put it someplace in the school. One downside of this activity was the wifi. One day the wifi did not work so well so tying to scan into codes went very slow, but that was not in our control. Another minor setback was students making mistakes on their google doc. The whole class then had to rescan their code to get the correct notes. Making a padlet was also a new activity. Although a bit disorganized it was nice to have all of our items on one page to share. Overall this lesson was a fun and exciting way to learn.
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