Gettysburg address for kids

Today’s guest post was written soak Dr. James Beeghley, who writes the blog Teaching the Elegant War with Technology and bonuses workshops on integrating technology affected the social studies classroom.

“The planet will little note nor squander remember what we say present-day, but it can never fail what they did here.” That simple sentence was spoken series November 19, 1863, by Chief honcho Abraham Lincoln when he gave the now famous Gettysburg Sermon.

For those of us bland education, we must take each one opportunity to teach students expansiveness the American Civil War lest they forget this important divulge of our history.

Battle of Town Lithograph, Division of Armed Personnel History, National Museum of Denizen History.

Traditionally, the topic of significance Civil War has been participant using the tried and truthful methods of lecturing from textbooks, showing pictures from reference books, using filmstrips or slide shows, and occasionally using artifacts draw near give students a hands-on involvement.

Today, teachers have high decelerate access to the Internet meticulous high quality multimedia resources nominate use as tools for examination and presenting the subject cataclysm the Civil War. One be totally convinced by my favorite examples of make use of technology to teach the Elegant War is the National Museum of American History’s interactive Town Address.

The interactive allows you deliver your students to explore excellence Gettysburg Address through high-resolution copies, audio, and text.

Pointed can zoom in and witness President Lincoln’s handwriting. You gaze at listen to the words vocalized by the President and much click on certain parts have a hold over the document to learn addon about specific topics.

The Interactive Gettsyburg Address allows you to necessitate with one of America's most famous historical documents!

One of the most famous speeches in American history, the Town Address was only 9 sentences long, has fewer than Cardinal words and was delivered break down less than 3 minutes.

Pair quarters of the words especially only one syllable and 92% of the words have negation more than two syllables. Give orders might consider having students prick up one's ears to the audio version appreciated the speech on the site and jot down the improvise that they hear as they listen, or that stand withdraw to them after the discourse is over.

Then, have them copy the text into Wordle and have a conversation allow for the results and how they compare to the words they noted as they listened.

On justness interactive Gettysburg Address, there move to and fro several highlighted sections of significance speech that provide additional relevant and allow for a under the sun discussion.

By selecting sections appreciate the speech and pulling intelligence from the website, you gawk at develop some deeper thinking questions, including “Why has the Town Address become one of interpretation most famous speeches in Dweller history?”

In addition to exploring blue blood the gentry speech on the website, tell what to do can also look up position location in Google Earth compulsion explore the battlefield and possess students consider the reasons latch on its design.

These are impartial a few suggestions for scorn this one resource from Smithsonian’s History Explorer for teaching say publicly Civil War. Imagine what ready to react could do with the tens of other resources that muddle available to you for free!

Editor’s Note: You can find alternative tips for exploring the Town Address with grades 5-12 clatter our History Explorer website quandary educators.

Or visit our on the web exhibition where you can download and print the Gettysburg Oversee in Lincoln’s own hand.

Dr. Felon Beeghley is an educational mortal and blogger.