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"A country cannot
simultaneously prepare and prevent war."
--Albert Einstein
"Every gun that is
made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in
the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and not clothed."
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
"With great
power, comes great responsibility."
--Stan Lee
"Great spirits have
always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
--Albert Einstein
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Meet Rhonda Edwards
 Rhonda
Edwards is a third grade teacher at WB Goodwin Elementary. During
her 10 years of teaching, she has been an advocate for hands-on
science instruction and the use of journal writing across the
curriculum. Knowing that excellence in reading is vital in the
education of students, she teaches her students many reading strategies
that propel them forward. Literature Circles allow her students
to use those strategies to strengthen their communication skills
as they discuss and question their reading. Using technology,
Rhonda has provided her students opportunities to place themselves
within the historical time frame of South Carolina's history and
to immerse themselves in their science explorations.
Rhonda Edward's Best Practice Strategy:
Using the Internet site http://www.civil-war.net
students worked individually to find a personally meaningful photograph
that enhanced their learning and understanding of the Civil War.
Lesson Plan Overview:
During the study of the Civil War, Rhonda created a photo essay
dealing with the destruction of churches in downtown Charleston.
Using realistic images of the war in Charleston, Rhonda enhanced
her students' learning experiences and evoked emotional responses
in her students. After viewing the photo essay, students described
in their SC History journals how they felt seeing what happened
during that time in history. Using their journals, students completed
their own research into the events of the Civil War through photographs.
The students conducted their online research in the computer lab
and browsed through the many links on the Civil War web site until
they found a photo that was meaningful to them. The students then
saved the photos to their disks and created Word documents that
described how the photographs represented what they had studied
about the Civil War. The photographs and Word documents created
by the students were used to create a class photo essay on the
Civil War.
 See the example
of the Class Project
Motivating Students to learn Through Publishing Projects:
Another exciting project that Rhonda implemented allows students
to create and publish their own book. Working with Studentreasures,
a division of Nationwide Learning Resources, Inc. in Topeka, Kansas,
teachers are given resources that allow students to create a book
that will be published. To learn more about this exciting project,
click on http://www.studentreasures.com/
Civil War Photo Essay Lesson Plan
Book Requirements
Student Pictures.
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