First, each student picked one of twenty battle descriptions. I chose first and picked what I learned was the Battle of Chancellorsville. We then had to research our battle and find the location, date, victor, and theater of the battle. That information was all put in a Google doc along with a picture and was made accessible to everyone.
Next we each made a bit.ly and created a QR code for our Google doc. In class, we met with the person who had the battle after us to find out where they were going to put their signs, so we would be able to put the location in our Google doc. Then we left the classroom, hung up our signs, and started our scavenger hunt. It took us two class periods to complete. During the next class, we created a Padlet, shown below, where we put who dominated in which theater and battles that prove it. I wasn't in class that day, but I was able to still get a picture of the Padlet and see my classmates' notes.
Looking at the Padlet, we can see who the victor was in each of the theaters. The Union dominated the Western theater and the Naval theater, and the Confederacy dominated the Eastern theater. The Padlet can also give us the answers to the second essential question. The Union dominated in the Naval theater because they attacked from both land and sea and had ships waiting in the river to attack. The Union seemed to dominate in the Western theater because of their numbers and strategies of bombardment. The Confederacy won in the Eastern theater because they had the right supplies and fortifications.
Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson meeting to discuss Chancellorsville
