This track is for a social studies unit on the civil war for fifth grade. It meets the Tennessee Curriculum by the students will exhibit a knowledge of history identifying and describing major events, people, and trends. This unit will link you to other internet sites that can provide valuable cross-curricular materials for you and your students. The stated learning gap is knowledge of the civil war. This unit was chosen because it has numerous experiences to challenge the students on the knowledge of the civil war. This unit will provide them with that experience. I chose this unit because it will allow my students to try more than one way to solve a problem as described in the teacher profiler survey.