Distance Learning
- Grade Level:
- Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
- Subject:
- Social Studies
- Common Core Standards:
- 3.RF.4, 6-8.RH.4, 6-8.RH.10
- State Standards:
- Kansas Social Studies Standards, 7th Grade, Statehood and the Civil War, Standards 3, 4 , 5
Kansas Social Studies Standards, 8th Grade, March Toward War, Standard 3
The program consists of an introductory activity and then three separate activities that examine how the conflict over slavery permeated every level of government in Kansas Territory and at Fort Scott including the legislative, judicial, and executive branches.
The program will look at voting in Fort Scott and take students through an election activity designed to simulate actual elections in Kansas Territory in the 1850s
The next activity of the program will be the presentation of a courtroom trial that took place in one of the buildings at Fort Scott. For the distance learning program, the presenter will present the program and the students will be the jury, However there is a separate activity where the class could act out the whole trial using an associated lesson plan, or one of the attached files.
Then the program will shift to a series of vignettes that discuss some tense episodes of Fort Scott history where law enforcement officers took opposite sides in the conflict.
The program will conclude with a discussion of how we can deal with controversial issues of the day and how we might bring about more peaceful solutions.
Last updated: January 5, 2022