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Lesson Plan for Fort Morgan



and the Battle of Mobile Bay


The National Park Service has developed an exciting  "Teaching with Historic Places" lesson plan for Fort Morgan written by Blanton Blankenship, Historic Site Director, Fort Morgan and Bill Rambo, Historic Site Director, Confederate Memorial Park.


http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/73morgan/73morgan.htm

The plan is appropriate for grades 5 - 12 and includes readings, photographs, maps and activities.

The objectives stated for this lesson plan are:

1) To determine why a major seaport like Mobile, Alabama was vital to the Confederacy and why a blockade or the removal of its defenses was critical to the Union.
2) To evaluate the effect of technology on the Battle of Mobile Bay.
3) To describe some of the technological advances that appeared during the Civil War and evaluate their impact on soldiers.
4) To discover if fortifications ever existed in their own community, to describe those fortifications, and to explain how changes in technology affected them


The self-guided tour at Fort Morgan includes informative displays at sites of interest.

Publication of Alabama Heritage 
Winter 2008, Issue 87

http://www.alabamaheritage.com/Issues/issue87.htm#1

This issue features an article by Jessica Fordham Kidd and photographs by Robin McDonald