NOTE: This is an updated post from my old blog Last time I talked about the paintings of Peter Rothermel currently on display at the State Museum of Pennsylvania. Today, I’d like to talk about two more artists and how you can have students create their own...
Here is a another Civil War acrostic poem. This time I chose Harriet Tubman. She was a runaway slave who helped other slaves go to freedom and white people called abolitionists helped them get to freedom. Having faith in herself Arriving in free land with runaway...
For those who are not familiar with it, Flickr is a way for users to share their photos online. Users can make them public or private depending on how they want to share them. The great part about Flickr is that users can tag their photos so they are searchable...
The following post is from Dawn Crawford, a training specialist with netTrekker. Her post discusses some Civil War lesson plan ideas available in netTrekker....
As part of her Pa Middle School Computer Fair project, my daughter has created a very cool project. Based on an idea called Morpheus Fortuna, she has created an educational “follow me” project to get kids to learn more about the Civil War and using...
So the other day at lunch time, it was a nice day so I decided to take a walk outside and I found myself heading for the state museum. I walked up to the area for the Civil War and found it under renovation, however they did have some paintings there and I began to...
