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/Home/Professional Development/Teaching Resources/Lesson Plans/Social Studies/History/U.S. State History/Louisiana LApop.lp Votes:0 Louisiana History TITLE: Parish Populations AUTHOR: Debra S. Lee GRADE LEVEL/SUBJECT: 8 th grade Louisiana History CURRICULUM STANDARD: Social Studies: G-1C-M2, H-1D-M5 & 6; Math; D-1-M, D-2-M, P-2-M; English/Lang. Arts; ELA-2-M4, ELA-5-M1, M2, M3, M4, ELS-S-M6 OVERVIEW: The students will use the Internet to research the population figures of Louisiana parishes within given regions for the years 1992 and 1994 in order to create a bar graph representative of change. Time Frame: depends on availability of equipment and student familiarity. PURPOSE: To familiarize students with the Internet, research, and reasoning skills to determine population figures and changes from 1992-1994 to complete student handout and create a bar graph. OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to: Use Internet Explorer to Read More Go to Site Louisiana State Museum Votes:0 Internet Cabildo Lesson Plans Louisiana History at the Cabildo Introduction Education Goals How to Use These Lesson Plans Introduction to the Cabildo Lesson Plans Introduction Welcome to the Louisiana State Museum’s History at the Cabildo classroom series. We hope that you and your class will soon be able to visit the Cabildo, in New Orleans’s historic French Quarter. These lesson plans will prepare your students for such a visit. But if you cannot come to New Orleans, the lessons presented here can be used to supplement your current Louisiana history curriculum. Education Goals The material in these lesson plans has been developed to introduce students in grades 6-8 to the time periods and subjects presented in the Cabildo’s exhibit of Louisiana history. That exhibit begins Read More Go to Site The Siege of Port Hudson--"Forty Days and Nights in the Wilderness of Death" Votes:0 The Siege of Port Hudson: "Forty Days and Nights in the Wilderness of Death" Confederate fort after the siege. (Massachusetts MOLLUS Collection, U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, PA) W e eat all the meat and bread in the fort...eat all the beef--all the mules--all the Dogs--and all the Rats around us . So wrote a soldier who had been inside the Confederate defenses at Port Hudson, Louisiana, during one of the longest sieges in American military history. For 48 days in 1863, he and his fellow troops defended a fort that stood on top of a bluff above the Mississippi River; for all of those 48 days, Federal soldiers pummeled the Southerners with cannon shot and rifle fire. Finally, just five days after the Confederates were defeated at Vicksburg, Port Hudson s Read More Go to Site The Vieux CarrÉ: A Creole Neighborhood in New Orleans Votes:0 Vieux CarrÉ: A Creole Neighborhood in New Orleans (National Historic Landmarks photograph) H ugging the bank of the huge, swiftly moving Mississippi River and lying barely above sea level is the Vieux CarrÉ [view-ka-ray], or French Quarter, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Buildings crowd each other and the narrow streets. Cast-iron and wrought-iron balconies overhang the sidewalks, providing shelter from hot summer sun or sudden downpours. Cool, inviting courtyards can be glimpsed down narrow alleys or carriageways, and the smells of shrimp remoulades and seafood gumbos waft from hidden kitchens. Cathedral bells, jazz trumpets, and ship horns serenade residents and visitors. The Quarter is the heart and soul of modern New Orleans and serves as a continuous reminder of the city?s Creole, colonia Read More Go to Site

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