This past week, I worked primarily on research for the teaching trunk. Thanks to Dr. Barbara Gannon, a professor at the University of Central Florida, I was able to obtain the book Confederate Florida, The Road to Olustee by William H. Nulty and research the Battle of Olustee as Union General Seymour headed from Jacksonville to Lake City. This battle follows the NGSSS: SS.4.A.5.1 Describe Florida's involvement (secession, blockades of ports, the battles of Ft. Pickens, Olustee, Ft. Brooke, Natural Bridge, food supply) in the Civil War. I also created two assignments for the students; one is a Morse code translation for them to understand the technology of the time and the other is a crossword formative assessment for the end of the lesson (these files will be uploaded once the lesson plan is complete).

Next week I will have the opportunity to conduct a lesson in the Native American Exhibit for one of the 4th Grade student tours. In this exhibit I will take the students through a tour of the museum's garden explaining the Three Sisters Crops (corns, beans, and squash), and then conducting a lesson plan inside the Native American Room - which focuses on the local Timucuan Tribes. We discuss their various tools, agricultural life styles, and the local wildlife.

For research this week, I plan on examining the lives of an Antebellum Northerner, Southerner, and slave. Finding documents for these categories for students to read will be key in the lesson plan.