Grade Level: 9-12

Subjects:  Technology, Library Skills, Language Arts, Social Studies

  Basis of the lesson is to involve students school wide in the study of the Civil War and West Virginia's involvement in it.

Learner Outcomes:

• To use reference materials including the Internet to gather information
• To Use the computer software to acquire information for project
• To work co-operatively in groups to complete this activity
• To be able to operate digital camera, videodisc, video camera, computer cd-rom, when necessary to complete given project

Materials:  Encyclopedias, Reference Books,

Technology Tools/courseware: Computers, Printer, CD-ROM's

Teacher Notes:

• Get out reference materials pertinent to Civil War
• Make sure computers are up and running
• Find CD-ROM's and other software students will need
• Make sure that you will only have one class scheduled for that time period

• Divide students into pairs (if possible put one computer literate student with one not so computer literate.
• Divide the class so that half work on computers and the other half with other reference sources.
• Instruct them that they are to search for and build a listing of people from or in West Virginia who were involved in the Civil War.
• The students should have a list of at least twenty names.
• While compiling this list they should also list just what their involvement with the Civil War was.

• Have students log on to the computer.
• The lists of names of West Virginian's that they have compiled should be available.
• Students should go to Puzzlemaker.com
• Now they should click on Word Search, Word Search with a Hidden Message, or Criss-Cross Puzzle. They may choose.
• Here is where they will create a puzzle using the names that they have gathered.
• Puzzles will be saved and also printed out for sharing with classmates and other classes studying the Civil War.

•   All handouts and puzzles will be done on blue paper for visually impaired.
•   Pair special needs students with a buddy
•   Co-operative pairing

Evaluation/Assessment: Success in creating the puzzle and its workability will determine grade.
                     Use checklist

West Virginia Instructional Goals and Objectives (IGOs) and other standards:
Language Arts 12.77, 12.74, 11.86, 11.49,10.87; Social Studies 9.30, 9.42, 10.60
National Standards:

References:

• Puzzlemaker
• Civil War
• The American Civil War
• Spies of the Civil War
•  Life Stories of Civil War Heroes