UGRR+Project+Activities

**Project Activities Page** If you have another idea for a project, ask your classroom teacher if your idea is acceptable.

Analyze two photographs using either the SEA or NARA Photograph Analysis sheet. Compare/contrast them using a Venn diagram and present your findings in Power Point or Photo Story.

Plot possible slave escape routes using a map of the Mississippi River. Draw the map and highlight your routes.

Analyze a map of Civil War battle using the NARA map sheet. Present your findings in the form of an interview with the cartographer. Use the flip video camera.

Research Underground Railroad stops in Illinois, Indiana, or Ohio. Create a photo story using the primary source pictures you found.

Listen to two interviews of former slaves and analyze them using the NARA audio sheet. Compare/contrast them using a Venn diagram and present your findings in Power Point, photo story, or paragraph form.

Read a letter sent to President Lincoln during the Civil War, analyze it with the NARA document sheet, and respond in character.

Analyze two auction documents or two runaway slave ads using the SEA sheet. Create a poster that shows what you found in your study of these documents -- what important information was included.

View several photographs of slave cabins and use the SEA sheet to analyze them. Create a model of a slave cabin.

Analyze a political cartoon from the time of the Civil War using the NARA cartoon sheet. Write a paragraph about your findings. What was the cartoonist trying to say through his art?

**Evaluation Sheets (dicussed in class)**







To see a video students made about the Underground Railroad, click [|HERE] It may give you some ideas about creating a digital story.

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