by beeghleytech | Jun 29, 2018
VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS Take your students on a Civil War adventure without leaving your classroom. Book Your Trip Bringing the Battle of Gettysburg to Your Classroom Choose from 3 Different Tours The Battle Begins! – July 1, 1863 We cover the events leading up to...
by beeghleytech | Jul 6, 2017 | Famous Civil War Locations, Teaching the Civil War
Recently a friend of mine asked me to do a Then and Now overlay of some dead Confederate soldiers who were buried in the Rose Farm at Gettysburg. Based on some previous research, he was seeking out the original location where these brave soldiers were buried and...
by beeghleytech | Nov 4, 2016 | Civil War Related Primary Sources, Teaching the Civil War
Colorizing original photographs of the Camp of Captain John Hoff Recently I spent some time doing colorizations of a series of photographs of the Camp of Captain John Hoff. Captain Hoff was the Commissary of Subsistence during that time and was in charge of...
by beeghleytech | Oct 14, 2014 | Civil War Related Primary Sources, Lesson Plans
Bringing Civil War Photos to Life with Color As you know I am a huge fan of having students use primary sources in the classroom. This is especially true when comes to using photographs from the Library of Congress. I have blogged about using images in the...
by beeghleytech | Oct 6, 2014 | Teaching the Civil War
I recently had the opportunity to lead a group of students on a trip to Gettysburg. The original plan was to take the Seniors and visit Little Round Top and Devil’s Den. My role was to talk to the students about the fighting at Devils Den and another...