Click around this Google Maps / Google Arts and Culture webquest / virtual field trip / hyperdoc to explore Fort Sumter and the first battle of the Civil War. This resource includes a 1 page reading passage that covers the history of Fort Sumter and an account of the first battle. -Reading passage / student response sheet- Print it or distribute digitally. 16 links to 360 degree views of Fort Sumter and primary source illustrations from Google Arts & Culture are embedded throughout the reading and referenced in the questions. Example links from the passage: Example Link 1 Example Link 2 -A website that contains all 16 links (optional). If you can't distribute the worksheet to students digitally, print the worksheet and direct students to a short URL (withheld from this description, included in product). From there, students can click each link that the worksheet directs them to. - PowerPoint for teacher presentation- After students explore the links on their sheet and answer the 10 student questions, review with this PowerPoint - Answer key (The answers are also present in the teacher PowerPoint). The response sheet contains matching, timeline, and open response questions. Example questions from the sheet: Review the flags present in link #1 and this excerpt from the National Park Service. Then match each flag to its description. Reread paragraph 2. Describe what is happening in this illustration, which appeared in Harper’s Weekly on January 26, 1861. Google Maps and Arts & Culture works through ordinary internet browsers, so no software installation is necessary.
