Scavenger Hunt Battles

Last week in class we continued to discuss the civil war. We focused on some of the battles and the West, East, and Naval theaters. Each of us were assigned a battle and all we knew about it was the date and we had to search around to find out the name, theater, victor, and a couple facts about the battle. I was assigned battle #13 which turned out to be the Battle of Vicksburg. The Battle of Vicksburg was in the Western theatre and the victor was the Union. Once we figured all that out we had to create a Google doc with all the info included. In order for everyone to learn about battles other than the one they researched themselves we needed a way for people to access other google docs. The way we did this was to create a sheet with a bitLy link and QR code that would take you to the google doc with all the info on it. We each printed out the sheet that would direct to our Google doc and hid it somewhere in the school and we all looked for them in a scavenger hunt game. This is a screenshot of the information of my battle:

 

You can reach this by scanning this QR code or typing in the bitly link.

To discuss whether the Confederate or the Union won each theater we created a pallet to collaborate out idea. We wrote under at least two of the theaters and stated who we thought won and why. This is the link to the padlet: A Block Padlet In the Eastern theatre six out of eleven battles were won by the Confederate and the remaining five were won by the Union. In the Western theater five out of seven battles were won by the Union and the Confederate only won one battle in the West the remaining battle was a draw. Out of the two battles fought in the Naval theatre the Union won both. After looking over all the information for each battle it is clear that the Union is the overall victor. The Union won twelve out of twenty battles and the Confederate only one seven, also there was one tie. In each battle the Confederate and the Union put up a good fight and lost many men in the process.