John Kay's Civil War: A Multimedia Internet Project for Middle School Social Studies.

Olwell, Russell B.

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ERIC Number: EJ598122

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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John Kay's Civil War: A Multimedia Internet Project for Middle School Social Studies.

Olwell, Russell B.

Social Education, v63 n3 p134-38 Apr 1999

Uses letters of John Kay, a Union Army soldier, to initiate a technology-based project that illustrates reasons for fighting in the Civil War, the daily life of a soldier, and the tragedies families endured. Explains that students learn that history is filled with real people who lived and died for their beliefs. (CMK)

Descriptors: Civil War (United States), Diaries, Group Activities, Internet, Letters (Correspondence), Middle Schools, Multimedia Materials, Personal Narratives, Primary Sources, Social Studies, Student Interests, Student Research, United States History

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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