Calling All History Teachers/Professors

[JerseyBart]

Appreciated Assistance Needed: I need help thinking up a 1 marking period 5th/6th grade history project that uses science, technology, art and math. My battlefield forensics (wounds, casualty rates, surgical tools and techniques, monuments etc) idea was shot down as being too gory even though I made it clear I would not make it gory.

I really want to do something civil war related, but I'm hitting a brick wall, and I'll leave it at that.

Thanks in advance.

JerseyBart

 

[matthew mckeon]

This isn't CW but I had success with the students building a model of a 19th century waterpower system, using joints and rain gutters from home depot. Plenty of engineering and basic physics.

 

[ivanj05]

Something involving the telegraph perhaps?

 

[JerseyBart]

This isn't CW but I had success with the students building a model of a 19th century waterpower system, using joints and rain gutters from home depot. Plenty of engineering and basic physics.

Hmmm...and I was just given a $100 Home Depot gift card. I could do the same with the Greek/Roman system for my 6th graders. Thank you Matthew.

 

[Bruce Vail]

Model making.

Ironclads or submarines would be especially good for STEM.

Bridges are always nice, and are something I think most 12-year-olds can handle. I'm thinking famous battlefield structures like Burnside's Bridge, Fredericksburg pontoon bridge, etc.

 

[JerseyBart]

Model making.

Ironclads or submarines would be especially good for STEM.

Bridges are always nice, and are something I think most 12-year-olds can handle. I'm thinking famous battlefield structures like Burnside's Bridge, Fredericksburg pontoon bridge, etc.

Bridges were suggested to me, but not this way. I like this better. Thank you Bruce.

 

[Bruce Vail]

Bridges were suggested to me, but not this way. I like this better. Thank you Bruce.

Also model buildings, or model forts, from battlefield site. Think Chancellor House, Fort Sumter, etc....

 

[Championhilz]

What about the king of the battlefield - artillery? There were a number of technological advances in artillery during the war - breechloading cannon, rifled artillery, impact and time fuses, sighting systems, etc. Gunners on artillery also needed to be very good at range estimation which involves math.

 

[Bruce Vail]

What about the king of the battlefield - artillery? There were a number of technological advances in artillery during the war - breechloading cannon, rifled artillery, impact and time fuses, sighting systems, etc. Gunners on artillery also needed to be very good at range estimation which involves math.

I thought of that, but that is too emotionally charged. As Civil War geeks we embrace the idea of technical innovation in warfare, but it seems cruel and thoughtless in the context of the modern day.

 

[Bruce Vail]

Appreciated Assistance Needed: I need help thinking up a 1 marking period 5th/6th grade history project that uses science, technology, art and math. My battlefield forensics (wounds, casualty rates, surgical tools and techniques, monuments etc) idea was shot down as being too gory even though I made it clear I would not make it gory.

I really want to do something civil war related, but I'm hitting a brick wall, and I'll leave it at that.

Thanks in advance.

JerseyBart

Our how about small-scale map making?

The kids could choose their own neighborhoods as a historic site - or let their imaginations fly.

 

[thomas aagaard]

I done some math questions about the the 2nd sleswig war in 1864.
How many horse shoes did the danish army need to change every day?
(x horses, need to be changed every four weeks... simple math)

Number of horses in a brigade, including all the wagons. (they are told the number of riding horses in a regiment, the brigade staff, the different types and numbers of Wagons) Again rather simple math.

The priming of artillery shells. Burn time, velocity, range...

Danish math exams in the 9th and 10th grade always have a theme.
http://www.uvm.dk/-/media/UVM/Filer/Udd/Voksne/PDF08/M2/mx22.ashx?la=da
(naturally in danish but it might still give the idea)
First page give the population number and then ask you to calculate how big a % of the population denmark lost in the peace agreement.
Simple math, but you also learn that fact.

 

[huskerblitz]

Model making.

Ironclads or submarines would be especially good for STEM.

Bridges are always nice, and are something I think most 12-year-olds can handle. I'm thinking famous battlefield structures like Burnside's Bridge, Fredericksburg pontoon bridge, etc.

I like the idea of making a project out of the use of pontoon bridges. There is a lot of potential there.