contemplating on a lesson plan

for my audio visual class we have to come up with a lesson plan on our own. our professor gave us the advice as to focus on the content of the subject before incorporating the use of the media devices. i thought for a while and i've narrowed my options to the civil war. when i thought of the civil war, i thought of relating it to a previous class that i had taken in college that tackled an aspect of the civil war by splitting the important groups during the civil war. i thought of borrowing the same idea with how to introduce all the aspects during that time period of america. i thought of splitting the class into groups in which i will assign a particular group an aspect in which they will have to research and present. the presentation of information could be made into a video presentation in which they will use a video recording device to re-inact an important scene during the civil war. the other option would be a regular presentation using powerpoint. but on this project the students will have "sky's the limit" (if possible) to come up with how they're going to present their information. one thing that i do ask them to do is some acting.

i think that's all i have for now...